Definitions for parting

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parting part·ing

Spelling: [pahr-ting]

IPA: /ˈpɑr tɪŋ/

Parting is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 216 anagrams from letters in parting (aginprt).

Definitions for parting

noun

1. the act of a person or thing that parts.
2. a division or separation.
3. a place of division or separation.
4. a departure or leave-taking.
5. death.
6. something that serves to part or separate things.
7. Mineralogy. a fracture of a crystal along a plane determined by twinning or pressure rather than along a cleavage plane.
8. Metallurgy. parting line.
9. a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent:
10. an essential or integral attribute or quality:
11. a section or division of a literary work.
12. a portion, member, or organ of an animal body.
13. any of a number of more or less equal quantities that compose a whole or into which a whole is divided:
14. an allotted portion; share.
15. Usually, parts. a region, quarter, or district: a quality or attribute establishing the possessor as a person of importance or superior worth:
16. either of the opposing sides in a contest, question, agreement, etc.
17. the dividing line formed in separating the hair of the head and combing it in different directions.
18. a constituent piece of a machine or tool either included at the time of manufacture or set in place as a replacement for the original piece.
19. Music. the written or printed matter extracted from the score that a single performer or section uses in the performance of concerted music: a section or division of a composition:
20. participation, interest, or concern in something; role:
21. a person's share in or contribution to some action; duty, function, or office:
22. a character or role acted in a play or sustained in real life.

Idioms

1. for one's part, as far as concerns one:
2. for the most part, with respect to the greatest part; on the whole; generally; usually; mostly:
3. in good part, without offense; in a good-natured manner; amiably: to a great extent; largely:
4. in part, in some measure or degree; to some extent; partly; partially:
5. on the part of, so far as pertains to or concerns one: as done or manifested by: Also, on one's part.
6. part and parcel, an essential, necessary, or integral part:
7. part company, to bid farewell or go separate ways; leave one another. to dissolve a personal affiliation, relationship, etc., especially because of irreconcilable differences. to disagree.
8. take part, to participate; share or partake:
9. take someone's part, to align oneself with; support; defend:

adverb

1. in part; partly:

adjective

1. given, happening, taken, done, etc., at parting:
2. of or relating to parting, leave-taking, departure, or death:
3. ending or taking leave:
4. dying.
5. dividing or separating.
6. partial; of a part:

Verb phrases

1. part with, to give up (property, control, etc.); relinquish:

verb (used with object)

1. to divide (a thing) into parts; break; cleave; divide.
2. to comb (the hair) away from a dividing line.
3. to divide into shares; distribute in parts; apportion.
4. to put or keep apart; separate:
5. Metallurgy. to separate (silver) from gold in refining. to cut (one part) away from a piece, as an end from a billet. to keep the surface of (a casting) separate from the sand of the mold.
6. Obsolete. to leave.

verb (used without object)

1. to be or become divided into parts; break or cleave:
2. to go or come apart; separate, as two or more things.
3. to go apart from or leave one another, as persons:
4. to be or become separated from something else (usually followed by from).
5. Nautical. to break or become torn apart, as a cable.
6. to depart.
7. to die.

Origin of parting

1250-1300; Middle English partyng (gerund). See part, -ing¹, -ing²

Examples for parting

"And do say something cheerful, dear," pleaded Avice, at parting.

In parting, I asked, if she had to pick one thing about the clubs that had made a lasting impression on her, what it would be.

As I leave,  I mention in parting how Culkin deserves some serious Tony Awards consideration for his performance.

Like the Bedouins, they left their faces and the parting of their hair exposed.

"In truth, my father, I wished to avoid the pain of parting," rejoined Philæmon.

Only Ambrose was, at parting for the night, obliged to ask him for the key of the gate.

“I have only loved one woman—only one my entire life,” he said in parting.

At parting, she urged Eudora to share her apartment for the night.

Bedouin women wore bright clothes and burqas, the parting of their hair and their kohl-lined eyes left exposed.

At the moment of parting he began to realize that he had undertaken a difficult task.