Parting

What do we mean by parting?

The act or process of separating or dividing. noun

The state of being separated or divided. noun

A departure or leave-taking. noun

Given, received, or done on departing or separating. adjective

(parting of the ways) A point of divergence, especially one of great moment. idiom

The act of separating Or dividing; separation. noun

Agoing hence; death: sometimes hence-parting. noun

In paper-making, the operation of separating the damp sheets. noun

In metallurgy, the separation of gold and silver from each other by means of an acid. Both nitric and sulphuric acids are used for this purpose, the latter more generally; but parting by nitric acid is a process which has been in use for many centuries. noun

In mineralogy, a separation of a mineral into layers due not to cleavage, but to some other cause, as the presence of thin lamellæ formed by twinning, as, for example, in pyroxene, titanite, etc. noun

In comb-making, a method by which, in order to save material, two combs are cut from a single piece of shell but little wider than a single comb. The cutter used has a vertical motion upon the blank, which has an intermittent feed beneath it, and receives a succession of cuts, the teeth of one comb being cut from the interdental spaces of the other. noun

A point or place of separation or division. noun

In geology, a thin seam of clay or shale separating the thicker beds of rock. noun

In founding: The meeting surfaces of the sand rammed up in the cope and in the drag. Parting-sand. noun

The division of the hair on the head in dressing it. noun

That which parts or divides. noun

Share; fellowship; participation. noun

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

To leave the company of.

To cut hair with a parting; shed.

To divide in two.

To be divided in two or separated; shed.

To divide up; to share.

To have a part or share; to partake.

To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.

To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.

To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.

To leave; to quit.

To leave (an IRC channel).

Words that are spelled similarly to parting:
parting, parsing, panting, parking, farting, paring, pasting, porting, carting, parging, darting, partying, patting, karting, parling, parring, harting, paoting, partin, tarting, marting.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word parting:
amicable, painless, ways, dalek, gift, gifts, farewell, gesture, shots, phrases, lovers, words, hair, label, kiss, longtime, shot, phrase, drummer, independently, glass, bassist, doctor, vocalist, flash, wish, angel, worst.

Words that rhyme with parting:
farting, starting, carting, hearting, charting, smarting, darting, imparting, karting, departing, harting, restarting, outsmarting, hartung, marting, art hung, chart hung, heart hung, magyar tongue, start ing, tart tongue.

Adjectives that are often used to describe parting:
final, last, sad, long, centre, painful, bitter, sorrowful, hard, inevitable, second, tearful, sudden, central, affectionate, real, friendly, temporary, solemn, actual, amicable, eternal, imminent, thin, brief, water, cruel, formal, basal, melancholy, emotional, middle, slight, terrible, straight, easy, difficult, subsequent, tragic, distinct, hair, eventual, definite, permanent, abrupt, octahedral, dreadful, angry, cold, strange, irrevocable, inch, awful, voluntary, pathetic, hurried, earthly, memorable, happy, reluctant, silent, peaceful, neat, impending, rhombohedral, shaly, unhappy, sweet, miraculous, dramatic, electrolytic, ultimate.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective parting:
line, tool, areas, doors, sand, off, ridge, place, salutation, cup, door, scene, passes, consciousness, tools, type, tomb, range.

Consonant match to parting:
porting.

Words that sound like parting:
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