Parts of things

Things that are parts of something else.

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Ais forApex

The apex of something is its highest point.
Similar words to apex are vertex or summit.

Bis forBead

A bead is a small, pretty object with a hole through the middle so that many beads can be threaded together to make a chain.
Beads can be made of clay, glass, wood, shells, stone, nuts or in fact anything that looks good and might be nice strung together.
Beads are usually strung into necklaces or bracelets.

Bis forBrim

The brim of a hat is the horizontal edge that sticks out around the hat and shades your face from the sun.
The brim of a glass or bucket is the top edge, or rim. When a glass is full right to the very top it is said to be full to the brim.

Cis forCell

A cell is the building block of life. All living organisms are made up of cells. The simplest organisms, like bacteria only have one cell, while larger creatures like trees and animals are made up of millions of cells.
Different types of cell in your body do different things. For example, there are special cells that make your bones and your brain that aren't very much alike, but are both types of cells.

Cis forChip

A chip is a small piece of something, most commonly a piece of potato, deep fried to make potato chips.

A chip is used in gambling to represent money.

Cis forChunk

A chunk is a rough piece or part of something. It is bigger than a small bit, but smaller than the whole.

The photo is of a chunk of road bitumen.

Cis forClove

A clove is a segment of a bulb, found on some kinds of plants such as garlic.
For the spice of the same name, see cloves.

Cis forCog

Cogs are the small "teeth" around the edges of gears. Cogs allow the gears to grip onto each other as they turn around.

Cis forCorner

Corners are where two or more surfaces or lines meet, usually at right angles. A square has four corners, a cube has six, and a circle has none. The frogs are hiding in the corner of their tank.

Cis forCrumb

Crumbs are small pieces of food. They usually break off from something crumbly, like bread or cake.

Cis forCuff

A cuff is a part of your clothing or a piece of jewelry or a restraint that goes around your wrist.

Fis forFlake

A flake is a small, flat and very thin piece of something. The picture is of a small flake of paint.
Some foods, like pastry, break into flakes very easily. They are described as flakey.

Gis forGlobule

Globules are small lumps of something that are almost spherical.

Gis forGranule

Granules are small, rounded pieces of something. They can be made by grinding something down into smaller pieces or more commonly by building them up from clumping much smaller ones together.
The granules in the picture are coffee granules.

His forHub

A hub is at the center of something. The photo is the hub of a wheel, surrounded by spokes.

Lis forLayer

Something put in a thin coating over something else is a layer. Many different kinds of cakes and sweets have layers of different colors or textures on top of one of the other. A cake might have a layer of sponge, then a layer of chocolate filling, then another layer of sponge and then a layer of frosting around the outside. The cake in the photo has a lot of layers.
You can also layer your clothes by wearing clothes over the top of each other to form layers.

Lis forLink

A link is something that connects two things together somehow.
A link is also one piece of a chain.

Lis forLog

A log is a thick cut piece of a tree, either from the main trunk of the tree or a thick branch. Logs cut for lumber tend to be much longer than logs cut for firewood.

Nis forNib

A nib is the part of the pen that you put onto paper to write or draw with.

Pis forPage

A page is a piece of paper which has writing or images print on it. Books are made of pages that are bound together.