Word Finder - parting

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To leave the company of.

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To cut hair with a parting; shed.

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To divide in two.

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to part the curtains

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To be divided in two or separated; shed.

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A rope parts.  His hair parts in the middle.

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To divide up; to share.

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To have a part or share; to partake.

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To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.

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To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.

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To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.

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to part gold from silver

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To leave; to quit.

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To leave (an IRC channel).

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The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation.

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A farewell, the act of departing politely.

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The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions; part (US)

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(founding) The surface of the sand of one section of a mould where it meets that of another section.

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

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A joint or fissure, as in a coal seam.

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The breaking, as of a cable, by violence.

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

There is no distinct cleavage, but imperfect parting may be obtained along octahedral planes.

He watched her throughout the night's activities, seeking to judge whether Mansr's parting words were true.

Her face was cold but her plump lips were warm, soft, her lips parting for him before he prodded them apart.

He turned and stalked out of the room, throwing a parting growl over his shoulder.

Perhaps, he thought, we are all owed contemplation of our actions, as a parting gift to those who succeed us so they might somehow learn from our deeds and mistakes.

Modern reform in Judaism is parting to some extent from this conception, but it still holds good even among the liberals.

The Blue Ridge is the principal water parting of the state.

Very significant, too, is the parting of the ways in the development of liturgical vestments in the East and West.

The " parting " of gold and silver is of considerable antiquity.

The water parting between the Chad and Niger systems runs N.W.

Next morning they all assembled for the final parting, and many of the officials and courtiers came to look upon the impressive ceremonies.

Someday I will tell you about our parting and all that was said then.

He loved his dog, his comrades, the French, and Pierre who was his neighbor, but Pierre felt that in spite of Karataev's affectionate tenderness for him (by which he unconsciously gave Pierre's spiritual life its due) he would not have grieved for a moment at parting from him.

Peter 's parting shot was " That air hose should be repaired, rainwater in a diesel engine can be terminal ".

Because the guidelines generally stipulate that she must return to her home country at the end of one year, emotional ties can make the parting hard for everyone involved.

With so much free information available online, you should use caution before parting with your hard-earned money.

Following in the footsteps of Nick and Jessica and Carmen and Dave, Travis Barker and soon to be ex-wife Shanna Makler are parting company.

If the window is an older sash-weight model, remove the parting stop as well as the balance cord pulleys.

Perhaps you broke a lens and you're looking for a way to fix it without parting with your old faithful frames.

Parting with previous views generally held by psychologists, Kohlberg emphasized that children actively self-construct their gender through a conceptual pattern in the mind called a schema.

The beaded fashion phased out, with teens now jazzing up their cornrows with intricate parting in the rows.

Use zig zags or invent your own parting style.

Just ask any fashionista who was around at the height of the 70s fashion era, and you're guaranteed to hear her regrets on parting with the following faithful beloveds.

Since you may not be sure as to her level of interest, your parting words take on a higher level of significance.

For example, imagine parting the petals of a lily into four butterfly wings, and creating the butterfly body and antennae from the pollen stamens.

They often don't come with valid guarantees or after care service so it is important to be very aware of the pitfalls of buying such a watch before parting with hard earned cash!

In addition to direct pitches to lure you into parting with you hard-earned money, there are some new internet-based scams to watch out for.

During this same period, tension in the group reached a fever pitch, and there was a very public parting of ways.

Tea party favors add a festive touch to the table while giving your guests a fun parting gift.

There may be two complete lines of track or three lines of rails, one being common to both tracks, and the cars passing on a middle turnout or " parting "; or a single track with a parting.

His wife he had never seen again since their parting at Berlin, and his relations with other women, mostly of the highest rank, were too numerous to record.

This Kojiki marks the parting of the ways.

The;sakis, which form the genus Pithecia, are specially characterized by their long and generally bushy tails, distinct whiskers and beard, and the usually elongated hair on the crown of the head, which may either radiate from a point in the centre, or be divided by a median parting.

He thereupon resigned the superintendency, and returned to St Louis, parting with the governor of the state and his colleagues in the school with regret and mutual esteem..

The methods of parting can be classified into "dry," "wet" and electrolytic methods.

The sulphur and litharge, or Pfannenschmied, process was used to concentrate the gold in an alloy in order to make it amenable to " quartation," or parting with nitric acid.

Parting by nitric acid is of considerable antiquity, being mentioned by Albertus Magnus (13th cent.), Biringuccio (1540) and Agricola (1556).

It is applicable to any alloy, and is the best method for parting gold with the exception of the electrolytic method.

Over 10% of copper makes the parting difficult; consequently in such alloys the percentage of copper is diminished by the addition of silver free from copper, or else the copper is removed by a chemical process.

The electrolytic parting of gold and silver has been shown to be more economical and free from the objections - such as the poisonous fumes - of the sulphuric acid process.

The 50,000 roubles presented to him by the emperor as a parting gift he at once handed to the Pavlovsk Institute for the education of the daughters of poor gentlemen.

After 1860 a change towards a more liberal policy was brought about by the efforts of Prussia, which concluded independently a commercial treaty with France, forcing on the other members of the Zollverein the alternative of either parting company French with Prussia or of joining her in her relations with treaty France.

The philosopher Thomas Harriot (1560-1621), one of his colleagues, laboured for the conversion of the natives, amongst whom the first baptism is recorded to have taken place on the 13th of August 1587.9 Raleigh himself presented as a parting gift to the Virginian Company the sum of loo " for the propagation of the Christian religion " in that settlement.

Forgiveness of injuries was as alien from her fierce and loyal spirit as forgetfulness of benefits; the destruction of England and its liberties by Spanish invasion and conquest was the strongest aspiration of her parting soul.

This candle, lighted at every mass for the forty days after Easter, symbolizes the presence of Christ with his disciples, and its extinction his parting from them.

The same ends may sometimes be effected by merely working fine soil in amongst the base of the stems, and giving them time to throw out roots before parting them.

When they had crossed the master desired the disciple to ask some parting blessing.

In the spring of 1663 Ray started together with Willughby and two other pupils on a tour through Europe, from which he returned in March 1666, parting from Willughby at Montpellier, whence the latter continued his journey into Spain.

Demotic.Widely varying degrees of cursiveness are at all periods observable in hieratic; but, about the XXVLth Dynasty, which inaugurated a great commercial era, there was something like a definite parting between the uncial hieratic and the most cursive form afterwards known as demotic. The employment of hieratic was thenceforth almost confined to the copying of religious and other traditional texts on papyrus, while demotic was used not only for all business but also for writing literary and even religious texts in the popular language.

The line then runs almost due north to the south shore of the Gulf of Guayaquil, following the western water parting of the lower Tumbez valley.