PARTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does parting mean? 

• PARTING (noun)
  The noun PARTING has 2 senses:

1. the act of departing politely

2. a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions

  Familiarity information: PARTING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of departing politely

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

farewell; leave; leave-taking; parting

Context example:

parting is such sweet sorrow

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

part; parting

Context example:

his part was right in the middle

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)

 Context examples 

In the evening there was another parting.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“Miss Dartle,” I returned, “you deepen the injury. It is sufficient already. I will only say, at parting, that you do him a great wrong.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

At twelve o'clock, they were to call for her in Pulteney Street; and “Remember—twelve o'clock,” was her parting speech to her new friend.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

He took kind leave of me, and embraced me at parting, which I bore as well as I could.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

“Are you well, my Emma?” was Mrs. Weston's parting question.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

They are parting; they are shaking hands.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Onley got up to go, but turned at the door and delivered a parting shot.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I clutched at a gun—my pockets were full of cartridges—and, parting the thorn bushes at the gate of our zareba, quickly slipped out.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And how do people perform that ceremony of parting, Jane?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The clouds seem parting too, the sun will be out in a moment, and we shall have a clear afternoon.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)