parting

[ pahr-ting ]

noun

1. the act of a person or thing that parts.
2. a division or separation.
3. a place of division or separation.
4. a departure or leave-taking.
5. death.
6. something that serves to part or separate things.
7. Mineralogy. a fracture of a crystal along a plane determined by twinning or pressure rather than along a cleavage plane.
8. Metallurgy. parting line.

adjective

1. given, happening, taken, done, etc., at parting:

   a parting glance.

2. of or relating to parting, leave-taking, departure, or death:

   parting words.

3. ending or taking leave:

   the parting day.

4. dying.
5. dividing or separating.

parting

/ ˈpɑːtɪŋ /

noun

1. the line of scalp showing when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions US, Canadian, and Austral equivalentpart
2. the act of separating or the state of being separated
3. 1. a departure or leave-taking, esp one causing a final separation
   2. ( as modifier )

      a parting embrace

4. a place or line of separation or division
5. chem a division of a crystal along a plane that is not a cleavage plane
6. See death
   a euphemism for death

adjective

1. literary.
   departing

   the parting day

2. serving to divide or separate

Word History and Origins

Origin of parting¹

1250–1300; Middle English partyng (gerund). See part, -ing ¹, -ing ²

Example Sentences

Chris Harrison, the longtime host of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, is leaving the franchise permanently following a racism controversy—and has reportedly received a major parting deal.

From Time

She discovered that like parents, trees send a parting gift of nutrients as they expire.

From Washington Post

Normally, a crisis portends a parting of the ways from a point of uncertainty before events move on.

From Quartz

These clauses require a town to give a retiring officer months of pay as a parting benefit.

From ProPublica

In a statement early Thursday afternoon, First Look described Poitras’s parting from the company as a “natural” decision to not renew her contract after she “decided to step away from her role at the company to pursue her own projects.”

From Washington Post

When it came to shooting the famous parting of the Red Sea, Ridley Scott elected to show a tsunami splitting the waters.

From The Daily Beast

In parting, I asked, if she had to pick one thing about the clubs that had made a lasting impression on her, what it would be.

From The Daily Beast

Bedouin women wore bright clothes and burqas, the parting of their hair and their kohl-lined eyes left exposed.

From The Daily Beast

Like the Bedouins, they left their faces and the parting of their hair exposed.

From The Daily Beast

As I leave,  I mention in parting how Culkin deserves some serious Tony Awards consideration for his performance.

From The Daily Beast

He looked up sharply, his lips parting in a smile that revealed his strong white teeth.

From Project Gutenberg

Good-bye, then, Miss Warrender; parting is such sweet sorrow, I e'en could say good-bye until to-morrow.

From Project Gutenberg

It is certain that I then had a bad cough nearly always; and this I am sure was what decided the form of his parting gift to me.

From Project Gutenberg

This, of course, I gladly granted as well as a little parting gratuity.

From Project Gutenberg

"Follow presently," was his parting command to the man who still knelt upon Rabecque, and with that he vanished too.

From Project Gutenberg