part of
Contained within something
Part of indicates a portion or component within a larger whole: Part of the problem is funding.
It can express inclusion in a group or process: I want to be part of this team.
Part of also suggests incompleteness—part of me wants to stay acknowledges conflicting feelings.
The phrase scales from concrete divisions part of the building to abstract membership part of the solution.
- pieceA portion or segment
- wholeFull and undivided
- segmentDistinct part of whole
- wedgeTapered splitting tool
- groupAssembled collection of things
section · member · included · slice · slice of the pie · integral · chip · fraction · drop in the bucket · tip of the iceberg · share · component · constituent · flake · belonging · subset · chunk · family
- belonging wordsmembership, ownership, affiliation, citizenship, family
- quantitiessome, many, few, amount, several