parting
noun
[ ˈpɑːtɪŋ ]
• the action of leaving or being separated from someone.
• "they exchanged a few words on parting"
Similar:
farewell,
leave-taking,
goodbye,
adieu,
departure,
leaving,
going (away),
valediction,
separation,
break-up,
splitting up,
split,
split-up,
breaking up,
divorce,
rift,
breach,
parting of the ways,
estrangement,
rupture,
bust-up,
• the action of dividing something into parts.
• "the parting of the Red Sea"
Similar:
division,
dividing,
separation,
separating,
splitting,
breaking up/apart,
severance,
disjoining,
detachment,
partition,
partitioning,
• a line of scalp revealed in a person's hair by combing the hair away in opposite directions on either side.
• "his hair was dark, with a side parting"
part
verb
• (of two things) move away from each other.
• "his lips parted in a smile"
• leave someone's company.
• "there was a good deal of kissing before we parted"
Similar:
leave,
take one's leave,
say goodbye/farewell/adieu,
say one's goodbyes,
say/make one's farewells,
separate,
break up,
go one's (separate) ways,
take oneself off,
set off,
be on one's way,
go,
go away,
get going,
depart,
be off,
split,
push off,
hit the road,
skedaddle,
scram,
shove off,
• give up possession of; hand over.
• "even quite small companies parted with large sums"
Similar:
give up,
relinquish,
forgo,
surrender,
hand over,
deliver up,
let go of,
renounce,
give away,
dispose of,
discard,
abandon,
sacrifice,
yield,
cede,
• separate (the hair of the head on either side of the parting) with a comb.
• "his hair was centrally parted"
Origin:
Old English (denoting a part of speech), from Latin pars, part- . The verb (originally in Middle English in the sense ‘divide into parts’) is from Old French partir, from Latin partire, partiri ‘divide, share’.
