Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A wall of a body part, organ, or cavity. Often used in the plural.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. i. In anatomy and zoology:
- n. A wall or inclosure; an envelop or investment; a body-wall; any part which inclosesor bounds a cavity: generally in the plural: as,the thoracic or abdominal parietes (that is,the walls of the chest or belly.
- n. In Cirripedia, the free middle part of the shell, as distinguished from the lateral wings.
- n. One of the perpendicular partitions separating the cells of a honeycomb or a wasps’ nest.
- n. In botany, the side or wall of an ovary or capsule.
- n. The central thickened portion of a valve of the acorn-barnacle (Balanus). The anterior overlapping edge of the valve is the ‘radius,’ the posterior underthrust edge the ‘ala.’
Wiktionary
- n. The wall of any cavity in the body.
- n. zoology The triangular middle part of each segment of the shell of a barnacle.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) The triangular middle part of each segment of the shell of a barnacle.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure
Etymologies
- From Latin pariēs ("wall of a house or room"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin pariēs, wall. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Atque his conatibus minus fuccedentibus, gens noftra nauibus abundans otij impatiens, in alias paries fuas nauigationes inftituerunt.”
“If you thought the tea paries were something, wait and see.”
“I am registered Independent, I agree and disagree with both paries on a number of party platform stances.”
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“I can recall some dreadful cases where children are the guilty paries.”
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“Having third paries put on the truth on McCain and Republcans can only help the Democrats in the fall -- especially since the Obama campaign disdains to do this.”
“Guess I'll look elsewhere. jason B saw this a week ago: it is absolutely heartbreakingly brilliant. all paries involved deserve awards noms.”
“I also think the paries are blurring badly now and, that as sound minded people.”
“If Senator Bob Casey had any balls, he would switch paries to the Republicans.”
“Give me a break, what they are not willing to talk about is their own paries morals, because that would be hypacriticle.spell check please lol”
“Right now, it is fairly easy — courts can get away with conveniently assuming that both paries to marriage are the real parents of a kid.”
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