belly button (medicine) and party(2) (iou)

belly button (medicine)

belly button

The navel or umbilicus. The one-time site of attachment of the umbilical cord. The term belly button was coined around 1877.

party noun. ['p¨»:ti] ME.
[Old & mod. French partie part, share, side in a contest, litigant from Proto-Romance use as noun of Latin partita fem. pa. pple of partiri PART verb: cf. PARTY adjective. See also PARTIE.]
I. A part, a side.
A part, a portion; a part of the body. ME-M17.
a. = PART noun 12. Usu. in pl. ME-L16.
b. = PART noun 13. LME-L16.
= PART noun 11b. obsolete exc. as passing into sense 5 below. ME.
A point, a particular; (part of) a matter. ME-E16.
II. A body of people.
A body of people united in a cause, opinion, etc., in opposition to others who maintain a different one; spec. (a) Hist. either of the two bodies of combatants in a battle, tournament, etc.; (b) a political group organized on a national basis. ME.
Conservative Party, Labour Party, Nazi Party, Republican Party, etc.
H. Wilson Neither of the two major parties could have reached a majority.
b. The system of taking sides on public questions; attachment to or zeal for a group united in pursuit of common (esp. political) aims. E18.
J. W. Croker Party is in England a stronger passion than love, avarice, or ambition.
Military. A detachment of troops selected for a particular service or duty. LME.
A game, esp. at piquet. LME-L18.
A gathering for social pleasure or amusement; a social gathering or Entertainment, esp. of invited guests in a person's Home. E18.
J. Osborne Let's make it a party..let's just whoop it up!dinner party, Garden party, tea party, Wine-party, etc.
b. An attack, a battle; a military operation; a unit engaged in a military operation. Military slang. M20.
A group of people, esp. one gathered together for a temporary purpose; a group of people travelling together or engaged in a common activity. L18.
R. V. Jones The party that was assembled to conduct the interrogation numbered four. A. Price A party of police was sent to arrest them.fishing party, hunting party, walking party, working party, etc.
III. A single person.
A person or group of people forming one side in a contract, dispute, law case, etc. ME.
A. J. Ayer He was not allowed to become a party to the suit.
b. An opponent, an antagonist. L15-M17.
A person who takes part or is implicated in a specified deed, event, or matter. Foll. by to, in. LME.
H. James Nothing against the validity of a friendship that the parties to it have not a mutual resemblance. L. Deighton Was her secretary a party to whatever was going on, I wondered. E. Young-Bruehl He saw his defeat coming and preferred not to be party to it.
The individual person concerned or in question; the person referred to; a person. Now colloq. LME.
E. Langley The elderly party..took the violin from Blue's hand. S. Bellow What I literally am: a basically unimportant old party.
A colleague, a partner; a (good or bad) match in Marriage. Chiefly Scot. L15-M19.
A telephone subscriber; a person using a telephone (orig., one on a party line). E20.
IV. Senses of doubtful affinity.
A decision. L16-M18.
A proposal, an offer. M17-M18.
Phrases: collapse of a stout party: see STOUT adjective. Grand Old Party: see GRAND adjective1. innocent party: see INNOCENT adjective. keep the party clean act responsibly to conform to accepted patterns of behaviour. make one's party good make good one's cause or position. maroon party: see MAROON noun1 2. parliamentary party: see PARLIAMENTARY adjective. pyjama party: see PYJAMAS. raiding party: see RAID verb 1. stag party: see STAG noun etc. stout party: see STOUT adjective. third party: see THIRD adjective & noun.
Comb.: party animal a particularly energetic and gregarious person, esp. on social occasions; a person who enjoys habitually attending parties and Other social occasions; party boat N. Amer.: for hiring by people who want to go fishing; party game: such as might be played at a party; party line (a) a policy, or the policies collectively, adopted by a political party; (b) a telephone line number shared by two or more subscribers; party-liner a person who follows a party line in Politics; party list a voting system used with proportional representation, in which people vote for a party rather than a candidate and each party is assigned a number of seats which reflects its share of the vote and which are filled from a list of candidates; party man (a) a man belonging to or (loyally) supporting a particular party, esp. in Politics; (b) a man who often goes to or gives parties; (c) a soldier belonging to, or an officer commanding, a party of troops; party manners good manners, best behaviour; party piano a boogie-woogie or barrel-house style of piano-playing; party piece a poem, song, trick, etc., regularly performed by someone in order to entertain others; party plan a Sales strategy by which goods are displayed or demonstrated at parties in people's homes; party Politics Politics as it relates to political parties; party-political adjective & noun (a) adjective of or pertaining to party Politics; (b) noun a party-political broadcast, a Television or Radio programme in which a representative of a political party presents material intended to foster support for it; party poop, party pooper N. Amer. slang a person who throws a gloom over social enjoyment; party popper a device which rapidly ejects a long thin strip of paper, used as an amusement at parties; party spirit (a) a feeling of solidarity with and support for one's political party; (b) a feeling or atmosphere of festivity; party ticket = party line (a) above; party verdict a person's share in a joint verdict; party wall: between two adjoining properties or pieces of land occupied by different parties, each of whom has a right in it; party wire US = party line (b) above.
partyism noun the system of political parties; party spirit: M19.
partyless adjective not having or not belonging to a political party L19.
partyness noun (Politics) the state of being thoroughly imbued with party spirit M20.

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