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PARTING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of departing politely

Example:

parting is such sweet sorrow

Synonyms:

farewell; leave; leave-taking; parting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("parting" is a kind of...):

departure; going; going away; leaving (the act of departing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "parting"):

valediction (the act of saying farewell)

Derivation:

part (leave)

part (go one's own way; move apart)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions

Example:

his part was right in the middle

Synonyms:

part; parting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("parting" is a kind of...):

line (a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent)

Holonyms ("parting" is a part of...):

hair (a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb part

Credits

 Context examples: 

A cab had driven up, and Holmes, parting the blind, looked out at it.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When we were parting he said:—Perhaps you will come to town if I send to you, and take Madam Mina too.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

On Saturday morning Elizabeth and Mr. Collins met for breakfast a few minutes before the others appeared; and he took the opportunity of paying the parting civilities which he deemed indispensably necessary.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Many had brought some parting token by which he should remember them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Nor did Meg miss any of the romance from the daily parting, when her husband followed up his kiss with the tender inquiry, "Shall I send some veal or mutton for dinner, darling?"

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“And see that you serve no more slops,” was his parting injunction.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But she hugged the soft, stuffed body of the Scarecrow in her arms instead of kissing his painted face, and found she was crying herself at this sorrowful parting from her loving comrades.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Her heart was completely sad at parting.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She was aware herself, that, parting under any other circumstances, they certainly should have corresponded more, and that her intelligence would not have rested, as it now almost wholly did, on Isabella's letters.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I went back, after parting from you, to speak to her, but she was gone.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)