Definitions for parting
ˈpɑr tɪŋpart·ing

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. farewell, leave, leave-taking, partingnoun

   the act of departing politely

   "he disliked long farewells"; "he took his leave"; "parting is such sweet sorrow"

2. part, partingnoun

   a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions

   "his part was right in the middle"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. partingnoun

   A farewell, the act of departing politely.

2. partingnoun

   The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions ; part (US)

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Parting

   of Part

   Etymology: [From Part, v.]

2. Parting

   serving to part; dividing; separating

   Etymology: [From Part, v.]

3. Parting

   given when departing; as, a parting shot; a parting salute

   Etymology: [From Part, v.]

4. Parting

   departing

   Etymology: [From Part, v.]

5. Parting

   admitting of being parted; partible

   Etymology: [From Part, v.]

6. Partingnoun

   the act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation

   Etymology: [From Part, v.]

7. Partingnoun

   a separation; a leave-taking

   Etymology: [From Part, v.]

8. Partingnoun

   a surface or line of separation where a division occurs

   Etymology: [From Part, v.]

9. Partingnoun

   the surface of the sand of one section of a mold where it meets that of another section

   Etymology: [From Part, v.]

10. Partingnoun

    the separation and determination of alloys; esp., the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button

    Etymology: [From Part, v.]

11. Partingnoun

    a joint or fissure, as in a coal seam

    Etymology: [From Part, v.]

12. Partingnoun

    the breaking, as of a cable, by violence

    Etymology: [From Part, v.]

13. Partingnoun

    lamellar separation in a crystallized mineral, due to some other cause than cleavage, as to the presence of twinning lamellae

    Etymology: [From Part, v.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Parting

   pärt′ing, adj. putting apart: separating: departing: given at parting.—n. the act of parting: a division: a point or a line of division: the division of the hair on the head in dressing it: (geol.) a division of a mineral into layers: a snapping or breaking under a great strain, as of a cable.—n. Part′ing-cup, a drinking-cup with two handles on opposite sides.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. parting

   The state of being driven from the anchors by breaking the cables. The rupture or stranding of any tackle-fall or hawser.

Matched Categories

1. • Line

Anagrams for parting »

1. tarping

2. prating

How to pronounce parting?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of parting in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of parting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of parting in a Sentence

1. Edgar Allan Poe:

   Take this kiss upon the brow and, in parting from you now, thus much let me avow -- you are not wrong who deem that my days have been a dream yet if hope has flown away in a night, or in a day, in a vision, or in none, is it therefore the less gone all that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

2. Helen Hayes:

   There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed-the four-poster-I'll be needing that to die in.

3. Alexandra Feodorovna:

   Life is so fragile that any parting can be eternal. We can never be sure that we will still have an opportunity to ask for forgiveness and be forgiven.

4. Eric Beckman:

   The selkie story is not necessarily a happy story, it's about the risk of falling in love with magical creatures, and there's parting and sorrow.

5. Ross Douthat:

   It may be that this conflict has only just begun, and it may be that as with previous conflicts in Church history, it will eventually be serious enough to end in real schism, a permanent parting of the ways.

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