Parting
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Serving to part; dividing; separating.
Given when departing; as, a parting shot; a parting salute.
Departing.
Admitting of being parted; partible.
The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation.
A separation; a leave-taking.
A surface or line of separation where a division occurs.
The surface of the sand of one section of a mold where it meets that of another section.
The separation and determination of alloys; esp., the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button.
A joint or fissure, as in a coal seam.
The breaking, as of a cable, by violence.
Lamellar separation in a crystallized mineral, due to some other cause than cleavage, as to the presence of twinning lamellae.
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Parting Quotations
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
William Shakespeare
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
Charles Dickens
In every parting there is an image of death.
George Eliot
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
George Eliot
Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
Emily Dickinson
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
Arthur Schopenhauer
They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in.
Helen Hayes
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.
Sarah Vowell
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
Tryon Edwards
Parting Translations
parting in German is Abschied {m}, scheidend
parting in Italian is separazione
parting in Swedish is delning, avsked, bena
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