Crossword clues for parting
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Part \Part\ (p[aum]rt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Parted; p. pr. & vb. n. Parting.] [F. partir, L. partire, partiri, p. p. partitus, fr. pars, gen. partis, a part. See Part, n.]
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To divide; to separate into distinct parts; to break into two or more parts or pieces; to sever. ``Thou shalt part it in pieces.''
--Lev. ii. 6.There, [celestial love] parted into rainbow hues.
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To divide into shares; to divide and distribute; to allot; to apportion; to share.
To part his throne, and share his heaven with thee.
--Pope.They parted my raiment among them.
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To separate or disunite; to cause to go apart; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
The Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
--Ruth i. 17.While he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
--Luke xxiv. 51.The narrow seas that part The French and English.
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Hence: To hold apart; to stand between; to intervene betwixt, as combatants.
The stumbling night did part our weary powers.
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To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion; as, to part gold from silver.
The liver minds his own affair, . . . And parts and strains the vital juices.
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To leave; to quit. [Obs.]
Since presently your souls must part your bodies.
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To separate (a collection of objects) into smaller collections; as, to part one's hair in the middle.
To part a cable (Naut.), to break it.
To part company, to separate, as travelers or companions.
Parting \Par"ting\ (p[aum]rt"[i^]ng), a. [From Part, v.]
Serving to part; dividing; separating.
Given when departing; as, a parting shot; a parting salute. ``Give him that parting kiss.''
--Shak.Departing. ``Speed the parting guest.''
--Pope.-
Admitting of being parted; partible.
Parting fellow, a partner. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.Parting pulley. See under Pulley.
Parting sand (Founding), dry, nonadhesive sand, sprinkled upon the partings of a mold to facilitate the separation.
Parting strip (Arch.), in a sash window, one of the thin strips of wood let into the pulley stile to keep the sashes apart; also, the thin piece inserted in the window box to separate the weights.
Parting tool (Mach.), a thin tool, used in turning or planing, for cutting a piece in two.
Parting \Par"ting\ (p[aum]rt"[i^]ng), n.
The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation. ``The parting of the way.''
--Ezek. xxi. 21.-
A separation; a leave-taking.
--Shak.And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts.
--Byron. A surface or line of separation where a division occurs.
(Founding) The surface of the sand of one section of a mold where it meets that of another section.
(Chem.) The separation and determination of alloys; esp., the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button.
(Geol.) A joint or fissure, as in a coal seam.
(Naut.) The breaking, as of a cable, by violence.
(Min.) Lamellar separation in a crystallized mineral, due to some other cause than cleavage, as to the presence of twinning lamell[ae].
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"action of going away," c.1300, verbal noun from part (v.). As "separation of persons," early 14c.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation. 2 A farewell, the act of departing politely. 3 (context British English) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions; part (''US'') 4 (context founding English) The surface of the sand of one section of a mould where it meets that of another section. 5 (context chemistry English) The separation and determination of alloys; especially, the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button. 6 (context geology English) A joint or fissure, as in a coal seam. 7 (context nautical English) The breaking, as of a cable, by violence. 8 (context mineralogy English) lamellar separation in a crystallized mineral, due to some other cause than cleavage, as to the presence of twinning lamellae. vb. (present participle of part English)
WordNet
adj. delivered at the moment of parting as if in flight or retreat; "paused to deliver a parting shot at the door"; "a Parthian volley of expletives from Uncle Billy"- Bret Harte [syn: parthian]
n. the act of departing politely; "he disliked long farewells"; "he took his leave"; "parting is such sweet sorrow" [syn: farewell, leave, leave-taking]
Wikipedia
Parting may refer to:
- Parting.com, funeral home directory
- Parting tradition
- Cleavage (crystal)#Parting
- Won "PartinG" Lee-sak, professional StarCraft II player
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Usage examples of "parting".
Smallweed and a parting salutation to the scornful Judy, strides out of the parlour, clashing imaginary sabres and other metallic appurtenances as he goes.
After fourteen stormy years the two friends, who more than any others were responsible for the launching of the Third Retch, for its terror and its degradation, who though they had often disagreed had stood together in the moments of crisis and defeats and disappointments, had come to a parting of the ways, and the scar-faced, brawling battler for Hitler and Nazism had come to the end of his violent life.
Carrie feel good with her parting statement, Bette added to the heavy guilt that Carrie already felt.
So sure did I feel, that my vision was due merely to some trick of the Yamabooshi, that I actually gloated over my coming triumph in writing to the Bonze that I had been right in answering his sad words of parting with an incredulous smile, as my sister and family were all in good health--happy!
As it died away, heavy footsteps approached and the door opened to reveal a broad man with iron grey hair brilliantined in a side parting and a toothbrush moustache.
With a parting smile, he stepped forward, grasped the doorknob, and thrust himself through to Earth, bringing up his right hand to brake against the wall.
Without a hortatory tone, to which, actually, I have no right, I intend to pronounce my parting words in the tones of an old friend who is listened to with half-condescending, half-impatient attention, if only he does not become excessively long-winded.
Janice recalled the strong, humourless face of the German psychiatrist at their last session and her parting words to them.
She barely acknowledged the greetings and festive wishes from the staff as they cut a swathe through the crowd, the minglers parting like the Red Sea as they moved across the room.
His hand slid down her body to the soft hair of her mons, then further, parting her nether lips to tease her waiting clit.
As a parting gift for the otters who had done so much for her, she left the carcass of a small-horn buck anchored in fairly deep water near the underwater entrance to the den of the mustelids to make it difficult for other predators to rob her friends.
V The second parting from Miss Overmore had been bad enough, but this first parting from Mrs.
The public has so long listened to these funereal solos that if a few of the poets thus impatient to be gone were to go, their departure would perhaps be attended by that resigned speeding which the proverb invokes on behalf of the parting guest.
The blade stayed unroused, its forged length parting air like black smoke, sliced by the pearlescent sheen of cold runes.
When she lay beneath him, her hair fanned across the plaid like a skein of black embroidery silk, he kissed her, parting her lips with his tongue to stroke her own, then nipping at her pouty lower lip.