# parted

Pronunciation: US say "PAR-tid" /ˈpɑɹtɪd/; UK say "PAH-tid" /ˈpɑːtɪd/

## Verb

1. Simple past and past participle of part. — simple past and past participle of part
   - Simple: Simple past and past participle of part. Use this form for parting that already happened.
   - _The old friends parted at the station after years together._
   - _The heavy curtains parted to reveal a brightly lit stage._

## Adjective

2. Separated or taken apart, with the pieces no longer touching.
   - Simple: Pulled apart or kept separate, no longer joined together.
   - _The parted strands of the rope lay loose across the deck._
   - _Through the parted clouds, the moon lit the open field._
3. Composed of a stated number of separate sections or divisions, as named by a numeric prefix.
   - Simple: Made up of a set number of separate sections.
   - _The diagram divided the design into a four-parted grid of equal squares._
   - _Folk singers preserved a three-parted ballad with a repeating refrain._
4. Cut so deeply into lobes that the divisions reach nearly to the base or midrib.
   - Simple: Of a leaf, split so deeply that the cuts almost reach the base.
   - _The herbarium specimen showed a deeply parted leaf with five narrow lobes._
   - _Botanists described the foliage as parted, with clefts running close to the midrib._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/parted (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).