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Parting

verb
/ˈpɑːtɪŋ/
Word Frequency: 3.2

Definitions

1.verbTo leave the company of.
2.verbTo cut hair with a parting; shed.
3.verbTo divide in two.
"to part the curtains"
4.verbTo be divided in two or separated; shed.
"A rope parts.  His hair parts in the middle."
5.verbTo divide up; to share.
6.verbTo have a part or share; to partake.
7.verbTo separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
8.verbTo hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
9.verbTo separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
"to part gold from silver"
10.verbTo leave; to quit.
11.verbTo leave (an IRC channel).
12.nounThe act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation.
13.nounA farewell, the act of departing politely.
14.nounThe dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions; part (US)
15.noun(founding) The surface of the sand of one section of a mould where it meets that of another section.
16.nounThe separation and determination of alloys; especially, the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button.
17.nounA joint or fissure, as in a coal seam.
18.nounThe breaking, as of a cable, by violence.
19.nounLamellar separation in a crystallized mineral, due to some other cause than cleavage, as to the presence of twinning lamellae.

Synonyms

lastleaveleave-takingfarewellparthianpartitionpartitioningseparatingseparationunbundlingsegregationsplitting

Rhymes With

smartingimpartingstartingdepartingfartingdartingcartingcharting
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