Definition of Parting

  • (v.) Serving to part; dividing; separating.
  • (v.) Given when departing; as, a parting shot; a parting salute.
  • (v.) Departing.
  • (v.) Admitting of being parted; partible.
  • (n.) The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation.
  • (n.) A separation; a leave-taking.
  • (n.) A surface or line of separation where a division occurs.
  • (n.) The surface of the sand of one section of a mold where it meets that of another section.
  • (n.) The separation and determination of alloys; esp., the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button.
  • (n.) A joint or fissure, as in a coal seam.
  • (n.) The breaking, as of a cable, by violence.
  • (n.) Lamellar separation in a crystallized mineral, due to some other cause than cleavage, as to the presence of twinning lamellae.
  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Part

Antonyms of Parting


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Homophones of Parting


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