Difference between Part and Contribution

What is the difference between Part and Contribution?

Part as a noun is a fraction of a whole; a portion. while Contribution as a noun is something given or offered that adds to a larger whole.

Part

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: Partly, partially, fractionally.

Part of speech: preposition

Definition: partially composed of

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Fractional, partial.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To leave. To cut hair with a parting. To divide in two. To be divided in two or separated. To leave (an IRC channel).

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A fraction of a whole; a portion. A distinct element or component. A group inside a larger group. Duty; responsibility. Share, especially of a profit. Position or role (especially in a play). A unit of relative proportion in a mixture. 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink. A section of a document. The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions. The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece. In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.

Example sentence: Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

Contribution

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Something given or offered that adds to a larger whole.An amount of money given toward something.The act of contributing.

Example sentence: The African mind has a lot to contribute, not only to world understanding of the arts, but to an understanding of spiritualism. That is the contribution Africa will make to the world of the future - an injection of sanity into the environment of the universe itself.

We hope you now know whether to use Part or Contribution in your sentence.

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