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Parting   /pˈɑrtɪŋ/   Listen
Parting

noun
1.
The act of departing politely.  Synonyms: farewell, leave, leave-taking.  "He took his leave" , "Parting is such sweet sorrow"
2.
A line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions.  Synonym: part.



Part

verb
(past & past part. parted; pres. part. parting)
1.
Go one's own way; move apart.  Synonyms: separate, split.
2.
Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways.  Synonyms: break, break up, separate, split, split up.  "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage" , "My friend and I split up"
3.
4.
Come apart.  Synonyms: divide, separate.
5.
Force, take, or pull apart.  Synonyms: disunite, divide, separate.  "Moses parted the Red Sea"



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"Parting" Quotes from Famous Books



... man, Martinson was angry. He had taken some trouble in smoothing down the ruffled temper of Bently Brown, even before viewing the trial run of the picture. Martinson hated disputes as a cat hates to walk in fresh-fallen snow, and the parting tirade of Bently Brown had affected ...
— The Phantom Herd • B. M. Bower

... suggestion that was compatible with German safety, he said, would be entertained. Yet his parting words ...
— The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I • Burton J. Hendrick

... I'm parting them is I'm giving up me drag, and selling me stock, and going into partnership with a veterinary surgeon in Rugby. You've some of the best blood ...
— All on the Irish Shore - Irish Sketches • E. Somerville and Martin Ross

... you—never could have told you, until now. Just after you were born, I dreamt a strange dream—that I lost you, and there came to me in your stead an angel, who comforted me and guided me through a long weary way, until, in parting, I knew that it was indeed my Olive. All this has come true, save that I did not lose you: I wickedly cast you from me. Ay, God forgive me! there was a time when I, a mother, had no love ...
— Olive - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)

... to," said Joy, moving away. Her sorrow at parting with her father made her fretful that morning. This was Joy's way. She had inherited her mother's fashion of taking trouble. Gypsy did not understand it, and her sympathy cooled a little. Still she really wanted to ...
— Gypsy's Cousin Joy • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps


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