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part Noun

— A part of something is one piece of it or a small amount of it. As a part of this team, you need to come to practice regularly. Part of the page was gone, so I couldn't read it. I don't have the right part to fix your computer, but we've ordered it.

part Verb

— If A and B part, they were together and now they are not. My wife and I parted after our son died. We didn't want to part with the house, but we had to sell it. He parted the leaves and looked up at the bird.

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of Preposition

— Made using. It is a house of cards.

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sentence Noun

— In grammar, a sentence is a group of words that follow normal grammar rules, and that, in writing, begins with a capital letter and ends with a period '.', question mark '?', or exclamation mark '!'. Usually a sentence has a subject, verb, and object. The first sentence in the Jewish holy book is, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." — In law, a sentence is the punishment that a judge gives to a criminal. He received a 15-year sentence for the murder of his friend.

sentence Verb

— If a judge sentences someone, they decide on a punishment for a crime. He was sentenced to 15 years in jail for the murder of his friend.

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