parting

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: part=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

parting, a. [From Part, v.].

•  Serving to part; dividing; separating.  [1913 Webster]
•  Given when departing; as, a parting shot; a parting salute.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  Departing.  Pope.  [1913 Webster]
•  Admitting of being parted; partible.  [1913 Webster]

Parting fellow, a partner. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- Parting pulley. See under Pulley. -- Parting sand (Founding), dry, nonadhesive sand, sprinkled upon the partings of a mold to facilitate the separation. -- Parting strip (Arch.), in a sash window, one of the thin strips of wood let into the pulley stile to keep the sashes apart; also, the thin piece inserted in the window box to separate the weights. -- Parting tool (Mach.), a thin tool, used in turning or planing, for cutting a piece in two.

parting, n. 

•  The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation.  Ezek. xxi. 21.  [1913 Webster]
•  A separation; a leave-taking.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

  "And there were sudden partings, such as press
  The life from out young hearts."  [1913 Webster]
•  A surface or line of separation where a division occurs.  [1913 Webster]
•  The surface of the sand of one section of a mold where it meets that of another section.  [1913 Webster]
•  The separation and determination of alloys; esp., the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button.  [1913 Webster]
•  A joint or fissure, as in a coal seam.  [1913 Webster]
•  The breaking, as of a cable, by violence.  [1913 Webster]
•  Lamellar separation in a crystallized mineral, due to some other cause than cleavage, as to the presence of twinning lamellæ.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

parting, n.
1 a leave-taking or departure (often attrib.: parting words).
2 Brit. the dividing line of combed hair.
3 a division; an act of separating.

Idiom

parting shot = PARTHIAN SHOT.

THESAURUS

parting

Godspeed, abandonment, abstraction, adieu, alienation, aloha, annihilation, bane, biological death, breaking up, breakup, cessation of life, cleaving, clinical death, closing, concluding, conge, crossing the bar, curtains, deactivation, death, death knell, deathbed, debt of nature, decampment, decease, demise, demobilization, departing, departure, detachment, diaspora, disarticulation, disassociation, disbandment, disconnectedness, disconnection, discontinuity, disengagement, disintegration, disjointing, disjunction, disjunctive, dislocation, dismissal, disorganization, dispersal, dispersion, dissolution, disunion, dividing, division, divorce, divorcement, doch-an-dorrach, doom, dying, ebb of life, egress, end, end of life, ending, escape, eternal rest, evacuation, exit, exodus, expiration, extinction, extinguishment, farewell, final, final summons, finger of death, flight, getaway, going, going off, good-bye, grave, hand of death, hegira, incoherence, isolation, jaws of death, knell, last, last debt, last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep, leave, leave-taking, leaving, leaving life, loss of life, luxation, making an end, outward-bound, parting words, partition, passing, passing away, passing over, perishing, quietus, release, removal, rest, retirement, retreat, reward, rift, rupture, segmentation, send-off, sentence of death, separating, separation, separatism, separative, shades of death, shadow of death, sleep, somatic death, split, split-up, splitting, stirrup cup, subdivision, subtraction, summons of death, valediction, valedictorian, valedictory, valedictory address, viaticum, walkout, withdrawal, zoning

ROGET THESAURUS

parting

Disjunction

N disjunction, disconnection, disunity, disunion, disassociation, disengagement, discontinuity, abjunction, cataclasm, inconnection, abstraction, abstractedness, isolation, insularity, insulation, oasis, island, separateness, severalty, disjecta membra, dispersion, apportionment, separation, parting, circumcision, detachment, segregation, divorce, sejunction, seposition, diduction, diremption, discerption, elision, caesura, break, fracture, division, subdivision, rupture, compartition, dismemberment, dislocation, luxation, severance, disseverance, scission, rescission, abscission, laceration, dilaceration, disruption, abruption, avulsion, divulsion, section, resection, cleavage, fission, partibility, separability, fissure, breach, rent, split, rift, crack, slit, incision, dissection anatomy, decomposition, cutting instrument, buzzsaw, circular saw, rip saw, separatist, disjoined, discontinuous, multipartite, abstract, disjunctive, secant, isolated, insular, separate, disparate, discrete, apart, asunder, far between, loose, free, unattached, unannexed, unassociated, unconnected, distinct, adrift, straggling, rift, reft, scissile, divisible, discerptible, partible, separable, separately, one by one, severally, apart, adrift, asunder, in twain, in the abstract, abstractedly.