Definition of Parting

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Parting

of Part

Serving to part; dividing; separating.

Given when departing; as, a parting shot; a parting salute.

Departing.

Admitting of being parted; partible.

The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation.

A separation; a leave-taking.

A surface or line of separation where a division occurs.

The surface of the sand of one section of a mold where it meets that of another section.

The separation and determination of alloys; esp., the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button.

A joint or fissure, as in a coal seam.

The breaking, as of a cable, by violence.

Lamellar separation in a crystallized mineral, due to some other cause than cleavage, as to the presence of twinning lamellae.

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Parting Quotations

Parting is such sweet sorrow.
William Shakespeare

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
Emily Dickinson

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
Arthur Schopenhauer

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
Charles Dickens

In every parting there is an image of death.
George Eliot

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
George Eliot

They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
Nagarjuna

There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in.
Helen Hayes

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
Tryon Edwards

Parting Translations

parting in German is Abschied {m}, scheidend
parting in Italian is separazione
parting in Swedish is delning, avsked, bena

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