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[ adverb ] in part; in some degree; not wholly
Examples "I felt partly to blame" "He was partially paralyzed" Used in print ("Editorials"...)The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each_week from West_Germany , but the hard truth , says Crossman , is that `` The closing_off of East_Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East_German , as distinct from Russian , troops was a major Communist victory , which dealt West_Berlin a deadly , possibly a fatal , blow . (Edward E. Kelly, S.J., "Christian Unity in England"...)At Oxford one_hundred years ago there were very few Catholics , partly because religious tests were removed only in 1854 . (Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)His assumption seems to be that any such friends , being tolerable humans , must be more liberal than most Southerners and therefore at_least partly in_sympathy_with his views . (Raymond C. Binder et al., editors, Proceedings...)Thus , the energy transferred from the arc to the anode was partly fed back into the arc . (J. F. Vedder, "Micrometeorites", in Francis S. J...)The diurnal_variation in the observed flux may be partly due_to the dependence of the detector sensitivity on the incident velocity . |
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