Meaning

9 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The act of parting or dividing; division; separation.

  2. (countable, uncountable)The state of being parted.

  3. (countable, uncountable)A farewell, the act of departing politely.

    Abschied

    расстава́ниеrasstavánije, проща́ниеproščánije

    the act of departing politely

  4. (UK, countable, uncountable)The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.

    Scheitel, Haarscheitel, Mittelscheitel

    пробо́рprobór

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

  5. (countable, uncountable)The joint or connected between two surfaces of one section of a mould.

  6. (countable, uncountable)The separation and determination of alloys; especially, the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button.

  7. (countable, uncountable)A joint or fissure, as in a coal seam.

  8. (countable, uncountable)The breaking, as of a cable, by violence.

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

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Life is made of encounters and partings.

    ruЖизнь состоит из встреч и расставаний.

    deDas Leben besteht aus Begegnungen und Trennungen.

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  2. There is nothing but meetings and partings in this world.

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  3. I have a shepherd-dog that has known me well, but the friendship is often interrupted by partings of some months' duration.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
farewell:
line dividing hair:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
farewell:
line dividing hair:

Origin

By surface analysis, part + -ing.

By surface analysis, part + -ing.

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Forms

plural: partings
Singularparting
Pluralpartings

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions:part
  • the act of departing politely:farewellleaveleave-taking

Word family

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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