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Parting Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Parting?
[n] the act of departing politely; "he disliked long farewells"; "he took his leave"; "parting is such sweet sorrow"
[adj] delivered at the moment of parting as if in flight or retreat; "paused to deliver a parting shot at the door"; "a Parthian volley of expletives from Uncle Billy"- Bret Harte Synonyms | Synonyms for Parting: farewell | last | leave | leave-taking | parthian Related Terms | Find terms related to Parting: abandonment | abstraction | adieu | alienation | aloha | annihilation | bane | biological death | breaking up | breakup | cessation of life | cleaving | clinical death | closing | concluding | conge | crossing the bar | curtains | deactivation | death | death knell | deathbed | debt of nature | decampment | decease | demise | demobilization | departing | departure | detachment | diaspora | disarticulation | disassociation | disbandment | disconnectedness | disconnection | discontinuity | disengagement | disintegration | disjointing | disjunction | disjunctive | dislocation | dismissal | disorganization | dispersal | dispersion | dissolution | disunion | dividing | division | divorce | divorcement | doch-an-dorrach | doom | dying | ebb of life | egress | end | end of life | ending | escape | eternal rest | evacuation | exit | exodus | expiration | extinction | extinguishment | farewell | final | final summons | finger of death | flight | getaway | Godspeed | going | going off | good-bye | grave | hand of death | hegira | incoherence | isolation | jaws of death | knell | last | last debt | last muster | last rest | last roundup | last sleep | leave | leave-taking | leaving | leaving life | loss of life | luxation | making an end | outward-bound | parting words | partition | passing | passing away | passing over | perishing | quietus | release | removal | rest | retirement | retreat | reward | rift | rupture | segmentation | send-off | sentence of death | separating | separation | separatism | separative | shades of death | shadow of death | sleep | somatic death | split | splitting | split-up | stirrup cup | subdivision | subtraction | summons of death | valediction | valedictorian | valedictory | valedictory address | viaticum | walkout | withdrawal | zoning See Also | departure | going | going away | leaving | valediction Parting In Webster's Dictionary \Par"ting\, a. [From {Part}, v.]
1. Serving to part; dividing; separating.
2. Given when departing; as, a parting shot; a parting
salute. ``Give him that parting kiss.'' --Shak.
3. Departing. ``Speed the parting guest.'' --Pope.
4. Admitting of being parted; partible.
{Parting fellow}, a partner. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
{Parting pulley}. See under {Pulley}.
{Parting sand} (Founding), dry, nonadhesive sand, sprinkled
upon the partings of a mold to facilitate the separation.
{Parting strip} (Arch.), in a sash window, one of the thin
strips of wood let into the pulley stile to keep the
sashes apart; also, the thin piece inserted in the window
box to separate the weights.
{Parting tool} (Mach.), a thin tool, used in turning or
planing, for cutting a piece in two.
\Par"ting\, n. 1. The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation. ``The parting of the way.'' --Ezek. xxi. 21. 2. A separation; a leave-taking. --Shak. And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts. --Byron. 3. A surface or line of separation where a division occurs. 4. (Founding) The surface of the sand of one section of a mold where it meets that of another section. 5. (Chem.) The separation and determination of alloys; esp., the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button. 6. (Geol.) A joint or fissure, as in a coal seam. 7. (Naut.) The breaking, as of a cable, by violence. 8. (Min.) Lamellar separation in a crystallized mineral, due to some other cause than cleavage, as to the presence of twinning lamell[ae]. |
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