Partitive

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Dividing or serving to divide something into parts; marked by division.
  • adj. Grammar Indicating a part as distinct from a whole, as some of the coffee in the sentence She drank some of the coffee.
  • n. Grammar A partitive word, such as many or less.
  • n. Grammar A partitive construction or case.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. that divides something into parts
  • adj. indicating a part rather than the whole of something; e.g. some
  • n. a partitive word, phrase or case
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Denoting a part.
  • n. A word or phrase expressing partition, or denoting a part.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In grammar, denoting a part; defining a part by expression of the whole to which it belongs; indicating a part as related to a whole: as, the head of a man; a half of it; or,in French, du pain, ‘some bread,’ or ‘of the bread.’
  • n. In grammar, a word expressing partition; a distributive.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. indicating or characterized by or serving to create partition or division into parts
  • adj. (Romance languages) relating to or denoting a part of a whole or a quantity that is less than the whole
  • n. word (such a `some' or `less') that is used to indicate a part as distinct from a whole
  • adj. serving to separate or divide into parts
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