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PARTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a margin incised almost to the base so as to create distinct divisions or lobes
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compound (composed of more than one part)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb part
Context examples:
He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As she did not seem quite willing, and as they could not be parted from each other, he wished that she might be changed into a beautiful pink, and took her with him.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The morning that we parted too!
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The friends from whom she had just parted, though very good sort of people, must be doing her harm.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
“But I wonder that you should come and see me now, Rodney,” said he, when we parted, trying to laugh as he spoke.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
On Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner's coming up they were all pressed to go into the house and take some refreshment; but this was declined, and they parted on each side with utmost politeness.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
His jaws slightly parted, his lips lifted a little, and a quizzical expression that was more love than humour came into his eyes.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Parted with; no longer held or possessed; incapable of being recovered or regained.
(Lost, NCI Thesaurus)
"D'ye remember that time we parted at the Hot Springs?" the other was saying.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The empire of Blefuscu is an island situated to the north-east of Lilliput, from which it is parted only by a channel of eight hundred yards wide.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
