partingn.

Brit.

/ˈpɑːtɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈpɑrdɪŋ/

Forms: see part v. and -ing suffix¹; also Middle English parthynge; Scottish pre-1700 parttyng.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: part v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < part v. + -ing suffix¹.In parting shot (see Compounds 1a) perhaps partly influenced by Parthian shot at Parthian adj. 2.

I. Senses relating to separation from a person, a thing, or a place.

1. The action of going away or setting out; departure. Also euphemistic: death, dying (cf. passing n. 1a) (now archaic). Now rare, except as merged with sense 2a.

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the world > life > death > [noun]

hensithOE

qualmOE

bale-sithea1000

endingc1000

fallOE

forthsitheOE

soulingOE

life's endOE

deathOE

hethensithc1200

last end?c1225

forthfarec1275

dying1297

finec1300

partingc1300

endc1305

deceasec1330

departc1330

starving1340

passingc1350

latter enda1382

obita1382

perishingc1384

carrion1387

departing1388

finishmentc1400

trespassement14..

passing forthc1410

sesse1417

cess1419

fininga1425

resolutiona1425

departisona1450

passagea1450

departmentc1450

consummation?a1475

dormition1483

debt to (also of) naturea1513

dissolutionc1522

expirationa1530

funeral?a1534

change1543

departure1558

last change1574

transmigration1576

dissolving1577

shaking of the sheets?1577

departance1579

deceasure1580

mortality1582

deceasing1591

waftage1592

launching1599

quietus1603

doom1609

expire1612

expiring1612

period1613

defunctiona1616

Lethea1616

fail1623

dismissiona1631

set1635

passa1645

disanimation1646

suffering1651

abition1656

Passovera1662

latter (last) end1670

finis1682

exitus1706

perch1722

demission1735

demise1753

translation1760

transit1764

dropping1768

expiry1790

departal1823

finish1826

homegoing1866

the last (also final, great) round-up1879

snuffing1922

fade-out1924

thirty1929

appointment in Samarra1934

dirt nap1981

big chill1987

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > [noun]

departing?c1225

partingc1300

withdrawingc1315

departc1330

wendingc1330

outpassinga1387

goinga1400

discessc1425

departisona1450

departmentc1450

going awayc1450

departition1470

departurec1515

recess1531

avoidance1563

parture1567

waygate1575

departance1579

exit1596

remotion1608

voiding1612

recession1630

recedence1641

recede1649

partment1663

recedure1712

leaving1719

off-going1727

quittance1757

departal1823

pull-out1825

pull-awaya1829

society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > [noun]

departing?c1225

partingc1300

departc1330

wendingc1330

going-outc1350

goinga1400

discessc1425

departisona1450

departmentc1450

departition1470

departurec1515

recess1531

avoidance1563

parture1567

waygate1575

departance1579

remotion1608

voiding1612

recede1649

partment1663

leaving1719

off-going1727

quittance1757

departal1823

waying1922

society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > [noun] > setting out

foundingOE

partingc1300

outgoing?c1335

buskinga1400

way-gangingc1485

profectiona1538

departure1540

waygoinga1600

way-ganga1628

upcoming1654

outsettinga1698

setting-out1711

c1300 (c1250) Floris & Blauncheflur (Cambr.) (1966) l. 684 He [sc. Floriz] droȝ forþ a riche ring, His moder him ȝaf at his parting.

c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 7237 At asaut wiþ Gyes partinge Þat wers he hadde at þat wendinge.

c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xix. 57 (MED) He ȝaf largely alle his lele lyges Places in paradys at her partynge hennes.

1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes i. xiv. 37 He shal be purueied bifore his partyng.

c1550 Clariodus (1830) v. 2231 As..Lucifer in pairting of the night.

1603 King James VI & I in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. III. 78 My sonne, that I see you not before my pairting impute it to this great occasion.

1656 P. Heylyn Extraneus Vapulans 64 To let him know, that the Company was upon the parting.

1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 42 Nothing troubled me at my parting from the Island.

1869 C. Heavysege Saul (new ed.) ii. 194 Who can, at parting, picture his return?

a. Mutual separation of two or more people; the action of leaving one another's company; leave-taking.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > [noun] > parting from one another

partingc1330

scattering1382

sculda1400

twina1400

c1330 (?c1300) Amis & Amiloun (Auch.) (1937) 325 (MED) Gret sorwe þai made at her parting & kisten hem wiþ eiȝen wepeing.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) 15541 (MED) Þis ilk niȝt salle be parting [a1400 Vesp. sculd; a1400 Gött. skaile; a1400 Trin. Cambr. scateryng] be-twix ȝou and me.

c1430 N. Love Mirror (Gibbs MS.) xlviii. lf. 101 A my dere sone a byttre partynge was thys.

a1500 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 15th Cent. (1939) 262 (MED) What sorowe is the departyng Of ij trewe hertis louyng feithfully, ffor partyng is the most soroughfull thynge..that euer yet knewe I.

1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. i. 229 Good night, good night, parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 1004 In these he put two weights The sequel each of parting and of fight; The latter quick up flew.

1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 375 We parted..with such Testimonies of Kindness and Affection as I thought were Equal, if not Superior to that at our parting at Dunstable.

1773 S. Johnson Let. 20 Mar. (1992) II. 22 The last parting is very afflictive.

1816 J. Austen Emma II. xiii. 242 Every thing tender and charming was to mark their parting; but still they were to part.

1843 C. Dickens Christmas Carol iv. 126 Not another word. That was their meeting, their conversation, and their parting.

1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 67 I said..a few words to the boys at parting.

1909 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Avonlea xxiii ‘Come again, Laddie,’ said Miss Lavendar, shaking hands with him at parting.

1966 C. Ekwensi Lokotown ii. 5 Her escort dropped her in front of the yellow building on Skylark Avenue. She was used to being stared at by people..so she made a great show of the parting.

1991 P. Kussi tr. M. Kundera Immortality ii. viii. 64 After their parting, the traces of that magic moment stayed with them for a long time.

b. The action of leaving the company of another person or party; leave-taking from or with a person. Also figurative.

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1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 ii. vi. 4 I feare thine ouerthrow, More then my bodies parting from my soule.

1688 R. Blackbourn Clitie i. 18 He..gave her an exact account of all that hapned since his parting from her.

1779 Mirror No. 8 Suffice it to say, that my parting with the Dervise was very tender.

1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Devereux I. i. ii. 15 Our parting with our uncle was quite pathetic.

a1894 R. L. Stevenson In South Seas (1896) i. ix. 79 Her parting with each, when she came to leave, was gracious and pretty.

1917 E. Wharton Summer xv. 215 The morning after her parting from Harney..Verena told her that her guardian had gone off to Worcester and Portland.

1992 W. Horwood Duncton Tales (BNC) 108 Returning back to the Eastside with Fieldfare..she would be taciturn and morose, and her parting for her own burrows would be of the briefest sort.

2002 Vogue (U.S. ed.) Mar. 585/2 When former Today show anchor man Deborah Norville had a not entirely amicable parting with NBC, she..exchanged the long, layered look..for a chic short do.

3. With with. The action of giving up or handing over a person or (now usually) a thing; disposal, renunciation, surrender. Cf. part v. 5a.

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the mind > possession > relinquishing > [noun] > parting with or letting go

departing with1529

letting go1565

loose1615

parting1665

1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xiv. sig. Ff7^v The parting with a greater Fortune, as freely as with a lesser.

1688 Ess. Magistracy in Harl. Misc. I. 7 The parting with it tamely would argue the greatest stupidity and inconcernedness.

1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. III. 482 The parting with a beloved Child is at any time an Affliction.

1751 Lady Luxborough Let. 14 July in Lett. to W. Shenstone (1775) 281 A lawyer..to see me execute a fine, in consequence of my parting with my house in London.

1804 M. Edgeworth Ennui xxi The parting with a watch and some other trinkets..enabled me to pay this money.

1839 Lett. fr. Madras (1843) 283 That is the grand Indian sorrow—the necessity of parting with one's children.

1865 Q. Rev. July 17 There was a something repugnant to the just pride of the Highland gentleman in the very idea of parting with his seigneurial rights, even for a season.

1901 P. Fountain Deserts N. Amer. vii. 118 The Indians had a singular custom in parting with their land. They sold it by the ‘walk’.

1988 Which? Dec. 562/1 We've looked at what's on offer from some of the major stores to ease the process of parting with the readies.

II. Senses relating to sharing and division into parts.

†4.

a. Division into shares; division or distribution among a number of people; the action of giving a share to another or others. Obsolete (rare after 16th cent.).

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the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > [noun] > dividing and sharing out

partingc1330

departinga1340

divisionc1380

partition1429

departison1444

dividentc1450

skiftingc1450

partage1484

portiona1513

departition?c1530

dividend1535

portioning1556

reparting1574

repartment1574

parcery1582

sharing1598

apportion1628

compartition1636

department1677

dividing1719

whacking1851

partitionment1864

divide1873

share-out1877

whack1885

sharesies1916

carve-up1935

c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 4067 (MED) Grete riches Arthour..ȝaf Bohort & Ban And bad it part among her man..After þat gentil parting, To Londen went Arthour.

a1425 (?c1384) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 342 (MED) Cristis viker shulde be porerste man of oþir, and mekerst..But chesyng of cardinalis, and parting of benefices..ben ful fer fro þis staat.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 385 Partynge, or delynge, particio, distribucio.

a1500 in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 171 The pore haue þe labur, the ryche the wynnyng. This acordythe nowȝte, it is a heuy partyng.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. lxxx^v They fell out about the partyng.

1895 N. Roy Generalship 172 She said there was great parting in the siller since Mr. Gilmour had been buying the things for the house in the wholesale way.

b. The holding or taking of a share; a share or portion; sharing, partnership. Obsolete.

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the mind > possession > sharing > [noun]

del-takingc825

partakingc1384

partingc1384

communingc1425

participation?a1475

communicating1550

sharing1598

intercommonage1628

compartition1636

copartiality1677

deal1873

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) 2 Cor. vi. 14 What partynge [L. participatio], or comunynge, of riȝtwysnesse with wickidnesse?

a1425 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Ezek. (Christ Church Oxf.) xlviii. 29 Þis is þe lond whiche ȝee shul senden in to lot to þe linagis of irael, & þese þe partingis [L. partitiones] of hem.

c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 8 (MED) Lif a man a iust lif, and tryst he of þe parting of merit þat God gifiþ men.

a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 129 (MED) Equite and kyndnesse might not suffre but that He war put in þe egalnesse of parting with oþir which departid all amonge othir.

a. The action of separating or putting apart; the fact of being separated; separation.In quot. c1350 referring to annulment of marriage or divorce.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [noun]

asunderingeOE

sheddingc1175

twinning?c1225

departingc1300

sunderinga1325

to-dighting1340

partingc1350

disseverancec1374

divisionc1374

severinga1382

departitionc1400

separation1413

sunderance1435

departisonc1440

deceperationa1450

severance1467

dissevering1488

dissever?1507

departurec1515

dividing1526

partition1530

sejunction1532

separatinga1557

sequestration1567

decision1574

divorce1593

disseveration16..

dissevermenta1603

sunderment1603

disparting1611

disunition1611

singling1625

divide1642

severation1649

concisure1656

department1677

secretion1696

abgregation1730

disengagement1791

disassociation1825

dispartment1869

dissociation1877

secernment1894

breakaway1897

delinkage1973

c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 66 Ȝyf þet one weddeþ þe þral, And..Ȝef he by wyl serueþ þat flesch, Ryȝt partyng worthe hym none.

a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 1803 (MED) Dede es noght elles..Bot a partyng of þe saul and body.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 385 Partynge a-sundyr, separacio, segregacio, divisio.

a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Washington) (1965) 7372 (MED) Alle han to-gidre a fastnyng So þat þer may be no parting.

1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) II. 133 Calamint is raised by Slipping, or parting of the Roots.

1745 E. Haywood Female Spectator I. 121 The parting of Friends and Lovers, is like the parting of the Soul and Body, always most easy when least warn'd of it.

1828 N. Hawthorne Fanshawe viii. 90 It was more terrible to stand alone in the dim morning light, than even to watch the parting of soul and body.

1905 E. Wharton House of Mirth i. xii. 214 Miss Farish's confidences were cut short by the parting of the curtain on the first tableau.

1914 E. R. Burroughs Tarzan of Apes v. 59 So intent was he upon this personal appraisement of his features that he did not hear the parting of the tall grass behind him.

1992 MotorHome Feb. 112/3 I felt like Moses at the parting of the Red Sea.

b. Metallurgy. The separation of gold and silver from each other, esp. by means of acid.

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the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [noun] > chemical reactions or processes (named) > separation > specific separation processes

departa1626

parting1662

inquart1683

departure1741

disassociation1814

dialysis1861

dissociation1869

inquartation1881

1662 C. Merrett tr. A. Neri Art of Glass xxxviii. 62 (heading) How to make Aqua-fortis call'd parting water, which dissolves silver and quick-silver.

1679 Philos. Trans. 1677 (Royal Soc.) 12 1046 Parting is done with Aqua fortis.

1710 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum II Parting, is one of the Refiner's ways to separate Gold and Silver.

1780 Philos. Trans. 1779 (Royal Soc.) 69 530 The whole melted produced a regulus of lead,..which, on coppelling with a few grains of silver, and parting in aqua fortis, left one sixtenth of a troy grain of gold.

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1059 In parting by nitric acid, the gold generally retains a little silver.

1938 R. Hum Chem. for Engin. Students xx. 543 The ‘parting’ of gold and silver can be carried out in several ways.

1991 J. Blair & N. Ramsay Eng. Medieval Industries vi. 110 Acid parting (in which the silver is dissolved out of the gold by nitric acid)..is not a method evidenced in England.

c. Turning. The separation of a piece of wood or metal from a longer length, esp. to remove it from a lathe. Usually in parting off (frequently attributive).

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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > other processes

framing1440

riving?1440

traversing1524

wedging1678

furring1679

cocking1710

bearding1711

battening1788

rossing1839

thicknessing1870

splining1901

parting off1905

reconditioning1932

stress grading1936

spindle moulding1979

1879 H. Northcott in Cassell's Techn. Educator IV. 71/2 Tools..chiefly for ‘parting’, or cutting off pieces of work from the main cylinder or log.

1905 J. Horner Tools for Engineers & Woodworkers v. 60 Tools for parting off..have clearance both behind and below.

1923 C. M. Linley Lathe Users' Handbk. v. 88 In capstan work where parting-off tools are in continual use..I have used milling cutters or slitting saws as tools with great success.

1950 C. T. Bower in A. W. Judge Machine Tools & Operations II. viii. 186 The parting-off saw shown..has been evolved for cutting off non-ferrous extrusions or bars up to 4 in. by 2½ in. deep.

1977 C. R. Shotbolt Technician Workshop Processes & Materials I. vii. 84/1 The draw tube and the back end of the collet are hollow to permit bars to be fed through the spindle for repetition turning and parting-off of workpieces.

1997 Metalworking Production Apr. 20/1 (heading) Ideal for precision corner radii, rounded bottom or for narrow grooving and parting off with minimised material waste.

†6. The action of dividing something into parts; the fact of undergoing division; breaking, cleaving, division; (Nautical) the breaking loose of a ship from its mooring. See part v. 2, 1. Obsolete.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > [noun]

partinga1382

distinctiona1387

partition1517

quartering1555

distincting1570

distinguishing1587

dividedness1656

scission1676

dismembering1677

dismemberment1727

splitting1737

repulsion1771

dipartition1838

splitting1847

piecemealing1853

diaeresis1856

fission1865

split-up1878

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Exod. viii. 23 I schall sette partyng [a1425 L.V. departyng; L. divisionem] by twix myn puple & þi puple.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 126 Athomus is þe xlvijti. part of an vncia and hatte athomus, as it were, with oute devisioun and partynge.

?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 6 The firste [manner of working] is ihad by deuysioun or partyne and vnderdyuysioun of þe operaciouns or werkes of cirurgie.

1473 Reg. Bk. Cupar-Angus (1879) I. 173 The sade toun salbe pairtyt in twa..with lele pairtyn be cut and quavyl.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 252/1 Partyng of any thyng, partaige.

1555 A. Mainardi (title) An Anatomi, that is to say a parting in peeces of the Mass.

1666 R. Boyle Origine Formes & Qualities 136 In the parting of it into halfes (as when our Hazle Nuts..part in the middle longwise).

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Tablature... In Anatomy, it signifies a Division, or parting of the Scull-bones.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. iii. 146 There being great danger of the ship's parting.

1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Parting..(Nautical.) Breaking cable, leaving the anchor in the ground.

a. A place at which two or more things divide or are separated. See also water-parting n. parting of the ways n. the place at which a road or path divides into two or more branches proceeding in different directions; (figurative) a point at which two people must separate or at which a decision must be made.In quot. a1600 parting of gates n. a crossroads or other road junction.

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the world > space > relative position > inclination > divergence > [noun] > place where divergence occurs

twisel931

partingc1425

divarication1691

bifurcation1766

furcation1863

shear1876

society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > junction of roads, paths, or tracks > [noun] > fork

gateshodelc1440

parting of the ways1611

fork-way1819

fork1855

the mind > will > decision > [noun] > point at which decision must be made

parting of the ways1848

c1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 108 (MED) Whan he is passid þe partyng of þe quarter and entred in to a newe quarter, he shuld blow iii moot.

a1525 Coventry Leet Bk. 50 Þer is a way..wiche is stoppyd wrongfully, as hit comyth, by heggynges & partynges on euery-side.

a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) ix. iii. f. 291^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Gate In stretis and parting of gatis, quhare pepill resortit,..the lawis of the ewangell war preichit.

1611 Bible (King James) Ezek. xxi. 21 The king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two wayes, to vse diuination.

1670 in H. W. Richardson York Deeds (Maine) (1887) II. f. 91 Mr Dummers Cove of Marsh neare to the Partings of the River.

1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 117 The parting of the double ruby-pout of his lips seem'd to exhale an air sweeter and purer than what it drew in.

1848 J. R. Lowell Parting of Ways i Who hath not..Stood doubtful at the Parting of the Ways?

a1862 H. D. Thoreau Cape Cod (1865) vi. 114 The ocean is but a larger lake. At midsummer you may sometimes see a strip of glassy smoothness on it,..a sort of stand-still, you would say, at the meeting or parting of two currents of air.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1460/1 An exact parting is now made with the trowel along the median line, if the casting be symmetrical.

1897 Marquis of Salisbury Speech in Lords 19 Jan. For the difficulties in which we find ourselves now, the parting of the ways was in 1853, when the Emperor Nicholas's proposals were rejected.

1911 A. Bennett Jrnl. 20 Jan. (1932) II. 2 This book makes a deep impression on me, and even causes me to examine my own career, and to wonder whether I have not arrived at a parting-of-the-ways therein.

1949 Times 11 Feb. 5/2 She [sc. Israel] is at the parting of the ways.

1989 Glasgow Herald 26 May 1 I think there will be a parting of the ways after 25 years... The partnership..had not worked in its present present form.

2000 Marie Claire July 48/1 Dwellings..can be fitted to accommodate changes in the family—extra kids, an additional couple or family due to a child's marriage, or a parting of the ways.

b. A dividing line formed in a person's hair where it has been combed in different directions. Cf. part v. 8c.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > parts of the hair or head relating to hairdressing > [noun] > parting

shodec1000

cleftc1325

shedc1325

shodingc1440

seam1585

parting1699

part1864

1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 24 Discrimen capillorum,..the seame of the head or parting of the haire.

1699 G. Farquhar Love & Bottle iii. i. 28 Does the parting of my Fore-top shew so thin?

1838 F. S. L. Osgood Wreath Wild Flowers 312 The simple parting of the sun-brown hair, The large and lustrous eyes, all eloquent.

1862 Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles I. i. 12 Smoothing the parting of the glossy brown hair on her well-shaped head.

1887 J. Ashby-Sterry Lazy Minstrel (1892) 193 My hair is getting thin,..Old Time has made my parting wide, And sunk my hopes to zero.

1958 B. Behan Borstal Boy iii. 262 He..tried to stop the men wearing their hair in the Gaelic style, straight back and with no parting.

1986 J. Elliott Dr Gruger's Daughter (1989) viii. 91 He..combed his hair (centre parting) in the gents.

2000 N.Y. Times Mag. 17 Sept. 126/2 She hadn't neglected the venerable Hindu mark of a married woman, the smudge of red sindoor powder in the parting of her hair.

c. Founding. The surface at which the two parts of a mould meet.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > casting equipment > mould > parts or accessories of mould

flask1697

sharp1703

core1728

oddside1836

drawback1843

cope1856

nowel1864

rapping plate1876

prod1888

knock-out1893

undercut1909

hot top1917

tundish1926

pipe chaplet1934

natch1941

parting1967

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1634/2 Parting,..4. (Founding.) The meeting surfaces of the sand rammed up in the cope and in the drag.

1906 P. N. Hasluck Metalworking 32/2 Cut a hole through the sand in the top box to the parting.

1951 R. J. Wolf in L. S. Marks Mech. Engineers' Handbk. (ed. 5) xiii. 1703 The molder does not have to make the parting on each mold by hand.

1967 A. K. Osborne Encycl. Iron & Steel Industry (ed. 2) 306/2 Parting, the area of separation between the bottom face of the top part of the mould, and the top face of the bottom part.

†8. The action of taking a particular side. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > [noun] > partisanship or factionalism

partiality1520

partaking1533

factiona1538

factiousness1572

siding1600

side-taking1626

parting1652

partying1681

party spirit1705

party1726

party feeling1796

partyism1831

partisanship1834

factionism1848

partisanism1850

factionalism1855

partisanry1889

1652 W. Brough Preservative against Schisme in Sacred Princ. 31 With them there will be Siding and Parting. There cannot be Unity and Order.

a. Mining and Geology. A thin layer of rock, clay, etc., between two strata of a different rock type.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > thin layer > [noun] > separating strata

seam1592

lissena1641

parting1708

stripe1799

slick1883

seamlet1891

1708 J. C. Compl. Collier 7 in T. Nourse Mistery of Husbandry Discover'd (ed. 3) A sort of bad foul Air, or Fume exhaling out of some Minerals, or partings of Stone.

1839 R. I. Murchison Silurian Syst. i. xxxv. 466 The laminae..are occasionally marked by very thin carbonaceous partings.

1940 F. F. Grout Kemp's Handbk. Rocks (ed. 6) viii. 181 The lean sandy or shaly partings in some coal beds.

1978 Nature 20 July 242/1 Thick-bedded lithic greywacke with thin silty or shaly partings.

1991 R. Goldring Fossils in Field i. 4 More precise stratigraphical information may be obtained from thin muddy partings, yielding spores, pollen and occasional microplankton.

†b. Founding. Fine dry sand or other powdery substance sprinkled on the facing surfaces of a mould to prevent adhesion. Cf. parting sand n. at Compounds 2. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > materials used in metallurgical processes > [noun] > sand or powder used in founding

parting sand1852

parting1875

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1461/2 The charcoal-dust of the black-wash acts as a parting.

Compounds

C1.

a. (In sense 1.)

(a) General attributive, as parting blow, parting kiss, parting look, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > [adjective] > relating to death

mortalc1425

deadly1470

capitalc1475

mortuary1542

parting?1570

deada1586

defunctive1601

lethal1607

deathly1763

deathya1822

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > [adjective]

finalc1365

endinga1400

finial?a1400

endly1436

conclusional1471

terminalc1475

parting?1570

supreme1570

terminant1589

desinent1608

terminative1613

conclusive1639

graciousa1701

finishing1705

ultimate1755

concluding1795

closing1796

wind-up1843

net1844

conclusory1846

terminational1874

summative1877

wrap-up1968

?1570 E. Elviden Hist. Pesistratus & Catanea sig. J.vi^v With parting kysse they past, appointing time renewde, When there in present place againe eche other might be viewde.

1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. B3 Thus much I must say for a parting blow.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) i. iii. 35 Ere I could, Giue him that parting kisse.

1646 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple 90 Harke shee is called, the parting houre is come.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis x, in tr. Virgil Wks. 535 But first receive this parting Legacy. He said: and straight a whirling Dart he sent.

1699 R. Cocks Diary 26 Nov. in D. W. Hayton Parl. Diary (1996) 35 Mr How reflected on the parting speech and on th[e] ministry.

1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 44 When he came to give me as it were a parting Kiss, I burst out into such a Passion of Crying, that tho' I would have spoke, I could not.

1781 R. B. Sheridan Critic ii. ii If you go out without the parting look you might as well dance out.

1794 R. Southey Frederic 6 That deep cry..seems to sound My parting knell.

1832 E. C. Wines Two Years & Half in Navy I. 2 Many of my friends..came down to the landing to extend to me the parting hand.

1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 266 This seems to be indicated by his parting words.

1984 D. Leavitt Family Dancing 112 He casts a parting glance at Elaine.

(b)

parting shot n. (a) literal the final shot fired, esp. before departure; (b) a final remark, usually pointed or cutting, made by a person at the moment of leaving; also figurative (cf. Parthian shot at Parthian adj. 2).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > answer > [noun] > a sharp answer, retort > at departure

Parthianc1640

parting shot1835

1835 W. G. Simms Yemassee II. xxii. 189 A parting shot from the muskets of the seamen was made with a fatal effect.

1888 J. Payn Myst. Mirbridge I. xiii. 215 That was a parting shot he took at you, by jingo!

1906 J. Galsworthy Man of Prop. iii. ix. 372 He could not resist a parting shot. ‘H'mm! All flourishing at home? Any little Soameses yet?’

1963 Daily Tel. 19 Aug. 8/6 It was also something of a parting shot, following a 100 yards victory in 9·9 sec.

1998 Post & Courier (Charleston, S. Carolina) (Nexis) 29 June b1 As the fleet retreated the commodore's ship, the Bristol, was hit with a parting shot from Marion and sunk.

2001 C. Glazebrook Madolescents 311 As a parting shot, I dip Filthy's pockets. Two hundred quid and a mobile phone.

b. (In sense 7a.)

parting-point n.

ΚΠ

1835 in H. P. Liddon et al. Life E. B. Pusey (1894) I. xv. 350 Mr. Maurice..made up his mind that it represented the parting-point between him and the Oxford School.

1959 A. Ridler Matter of Life & Death in Coll. Poems (1994) 135 Did you see God in parting from Him?..For if the parting-point was the point of vision, Then only through that gate can we return.

C2. Esp. in names of instruments and devices used for separating or keeping things separate. In some of these, e.g. parting bead, rail, shard, strip, the attributive use of the noun can hardly be separated from that of the adjective (see parting adj.). Thus a parting strip may be viewed either as a strip used for parting, or as a strip that parts.

† parting assay n. Obsolete an assay performed by physically separating the constituent metals.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > testing

assayc1386

toucha1450

say1567

essay1668

assaying1728

parting assay1758

van1778

docimasy1803

touching1908

heat tinting1910

cupping1921

Magnaflux1935

1758 A. Reid tr. P. J. Macquer Elements Theory & Pract. Chym. I. 56 This method..is called the Parting Assay.

parting bead n. a beaded strip in the frame of a sash window which keeps the sashes apart.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > parts of windows > [noun] > parts of sash windows

parting bead1820

stop bead1876

parting stripa1884

1820 in C. R. Lounsbury Illustr. Gloss. Early Southern Archit. & Landscape (1994) 261 [At Bremo in Fluvanna County, Virginia, John Neilson installed] pullies 6 @ 6 each, Hanging Treble Window 7/6..$1.75, Parting Beads 3/..$.50.

1876 W. Papworth Gwilt's Encycl. Archit. (rev. ed.) Gloss. 1292 Parting Bead, the beaded slip inserted at the centre of the pulley style of a sash window, to keep the two sashes in their places.

1970 Guide to DIY 30/2 Other moulding patterns..are..parting bead (for sash windows), and [etc.].

2000 Independent on Sunday 6 Aug. (Reality section) 27/3 Remove the parting bead (runs between the sashes) and the pocket piece (small removable panels that hide the weights).

† parting glass n. Obsolete a glass vessel used in parting gold and silver with acid.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > equipment for testing quality of metal

needle1469

touchstone1530

parting glass1594

proof needle1683

stroking needle1683

touch needle1683

Lydian-stone1720

scorifier1758

sebilla1839

sonometer1849

quantometer1927

1594 H. Plat Jewell House 79 Water in a parting glasse vpon warme imbers.

1679 Philos. Trans. 1677 (Royal Soc.) 12 1048 All the Gold lying, like black dirt, at the bottom, which being washed out is put into small Parting-Glasses, and set over the Sand with fair Conduit-water for an hour.

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 766 Parting glasses..ought to be very well annealed, and chosen free from flaws.

parting line n. Founding a line on a pattern or casting corresponding to the separation between two parts of a mould that fit together; (also) the line of separation between the two parts of a forging die.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > casting equipment > mould > line where parting meets surface of pattern

parting line1875

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1460/1 The parting-line is..that line upon the pattern, as it lies in the sand, above and below which the sides of the pattern run inward from the perpendicular.

1952 J. Wulff et al. Metall. for Engineers xxvii. 521 Excess metal, called flash, is squeezed from the die faces at the parting line.

1984 E. P. DeGarmo et al. Materials & Processes in Manuf. (ed. 6) xi. 253 This requires that consideration be given to the parting line or surface where one section fits against the sand of the other section.

parting plane n. Founding the plane of the parting line of a pattern or casting, or of a forging die.

ΚΠ

1956 A. K. Osborne Encycl. Iron & Steel Industr. 304/2 Parting plane, the dividing plane between the two halves of a pair of forging dies.

1991 J. Blair & N. Ramsay Eng. Medieval Industries v. 103 Modern foundry practice..requires a horizontal parting plane between the two halves [of a cauldron].

parting rail n. a rail in a panelled door, etc., between the top and bottom rails.

ΚΠ

a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 660/1 Parting Rail, a rail intermediate between the bottom and top rails of a door or partition.

1979 Arizona Daily Star 5 Aug. b4 (advt.) You'll find deep beveled edges on drawlers and doors and recessed parting rails for added face relief.

parting sand n. Founding fine dry sand sprinkled on to a mating surface of a mould to prevent adhesion of the mould surfaces and of the sand in each half of the mould.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > materials used in metallurgical processes > [noun] > sand or powder used in founding

parting sand1852

parting1875

1852 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) I. 338/2 The mould is then dusted with dry parting-sand.

1927 Dict. Occup. Terms (Ministry of Labour) §180 Hand moulder..sprinkles a little ‘parting’ sand (burnt sand) on upper surface of lower box.

1964 S. Crawford Basic Engin. Processes (1969) x. 237 Parting sand is used to preserve the joint face between the cope and the drag and prevents the two lots of sand from adhering to each other.

parting shard n. a thin piece of baked clay placed between pieces of unbaked ware to prevent adhesion during firing.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > pottery manufacturing equipment > [noun] > for supporting during firing

plancha1544

parting shard1686

bat1825

stilt1825

spur1833

setter1853

slug1880

thimble1901

1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iii. 123 Haveing only parting-shards, i.e. thin bits of old pots put between them, to keep them from sticking together.

1974 G. Savage & H. Newman Illustr. Dict. Ceramics 168 Kiln furniture, objects usually made of fire-clay for use in the kiln to support and protect ceramic ware during firing, e.g. saggers,..parting shards, [etc.].

parting slip n. Joinery a thin slip of wood fixed vertically inside the frame of a sliding sash window to keep the two counterbalancing weights apart when they move up and down.

ΚΠ

1819 P. Nicholson Archit. Dict. II. 171/2 Parts of the foregoing [sc. a sash frame] at large... Parting slip of weights.

1950 M. T. Telling Carpentry & Joinery 43 To prevent this happening a long thin sliver of wood called a parting slip or wagtail is placed between them [sc. the weights] inside the box.

parting strip n. a strip of material used for separating two parts, esp. = parting bead n.

ΚΠ

a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 660/1 Parting Strip, a narrow piece separating parts, as the strip between the upper and lower sashes in the window frame; or between the window and blind in a car.

1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 389/1 Adjustable Window Screen, so constructed as to form a perfect joint with the parting strip, so that it is not necessary to remove the screen in order to close the window.

1993 Collins Compl. DIY Man. (new ed.) iii. 211/3 Pieces of thin wood known as parting strips are usually suspended inside the box stiles to separate each pair of weights.

parting tool n. any of various tools used for separating pieces of material or for trimming, cutting fine outlines, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > equipment for cutting > other

trevat1831

parting tool1861

1861 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 29 Mar. 325/1 Both pieces are left as smooth at the end as if the cutting had been accomplished by a parting tool in a lathe.

1895 Mod. Steam Eng. 90 Side tools to cut at the side, Parting tools, narrow and sharp for parting work.

1943 S. H. Bell Summer Loanen 63 He blundered through the job, and when running the saddle up to put in a parting-tool, caught the calipers in the whirling chuck of the lathe.

1991 Woodworking Jan. 67/1 With the parting tool make a parting cut outside the skew groove to ¹/₂ in by making subsequent cuts towards the open end of the cyclinder.

2001 Routing Feb. 70/2 Getting started in woodturning... Lathe and tool selection.., skew chisel, spindle gouge, parting tool, [etc.].

† parting water n. Obsolete nitric acid as used in parting gold and silver.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > chemistry > chemical substances > acids > [noun] > acids-named > containing nitrogen > nitric acid

strong water?a1425

water?c1425

aqua fortis1601

spirit of nitre1626

parting water1662

spirits of saltpetre1685

nitric acid1790

1662 C. Merrett tr. A. Neri Art of Glass xxxviii. 62 (heading) How to make Aqua-fortis call'd parting water, which dissolves silver and quick-silver.

1678 Philos. Trans. 1677 (Royal Soc.) 12 956 1 peny weight and 3 grains (27 grains) of fine Gold,..refined both by the Copel and Parting-water.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	parting
释义	partingn. Brit. /ˈpɑːtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpɑrdɪŋ/ Forms: see part v. and -ing suffix¹; also Middle English parthynge; Scottish pre-1700 parttyng. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: part v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < part v. + -ing suffix¹.In parting shot (see Compounds 1a) perhaps partly influenced by Parthian shot at Parthian adj. 2. I. Senses relating to separation from a person, a thing, or a place. 1. The action of going away or setting out; departure. Also euphemistic: death, dying (cf. passing n. 1a) (now archaic). Now rare, except as merged with sense 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] hensithOE qualmOE bale-sithea1000 endingc1000 fallOE forthsitheOE soulingOE life's endOE deathOE hethensithc1200 last end?c1225 forthfarec1275 dying1297 finec1300 partingc1300 endc1305 deceasec1330 departc1330 starving1340 passingc1350 latter enda1382 obita1382 perishingc1384 carrion1387 departing1388 finishmentc1400 trespassement14.. passing forthc1410 sesse1417 cess1419 fininga1425 resolutiona1425 departisona1450 passagea1450 departmentc1450 consummation?a1475 dormition1483 debt to (also of) naturea1513 dissolutionc1522 expirationa1530 funeral?a1534 change1543 departure1558 last change1574 transmigration1576 dissolving1577 shaking of the sheets?1577 departance1579 deceasure1580 mortality1582 deceasing1591 waftage1592 launching1599 quietus1603 doom1609 expire1612 expiring1612 period1613 defunctiona1616 Lethea1616 fail1623 dismissiona1631 set1635 passa1645 disanimation1646 suffering1651 abition1656 Passovera1662 latter (last) end1670 finis1682 exitus1706 perch1722 demission1735 demise1753 translation1760 transit1764 dropping1768 expiry1790 departal1823 finish1826 homegoing1866 the last (also final, great) round-up1879 snuffing1922 fade-out1924 thirty1929 appointment in Samarra1934 dirt nap1981 big chill1987 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > [noun] departing?c1225 partingc1300 withdrawingc1315 departc1330 wendingc1330 outpassinga1387 goinga1400 discessc1425 departisona1450 departmentc1450 going awayc1450 departition1470 departurec1515 recess1531 avoidance1563 parture1567 waygate1575 departance1579 exit1596 remotion1608 voiding1612 recession1630 recedence1641 recede1649 partment1663 recedure1712 leaving1719 off-going1727 quittance1757 departal1823 pull-out1825 pull-awaya1829 society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > [noun] departing?c1225 partingc1300 departc1330 wendingc1330 going-outc1350 goinga1400 discessc1425 departisona1450 departmentc1450 departition1470 departurec1515 recess1531 avoidance1563 parture1567 waygate1575 departance1579 remotion1608 voiding1612 recede1649 partment1663 leaving1719 off-going1727 quittance1757 departal1823 waying1922 society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > [noun] > setting out foundingOE partingc1300 outgoing?c1335 buskinga1400 way-gangingc1485 profectiona1538 departure1540 waygoinga1600 way-ganga1628 upcoming1654 outsettinga1698 setting-out1711 c1300 (c1250) Floris & Blauncheflur (Cambr.) (1966) l. 684 He [sc. Floriz] droȝ forþ a riche ring, His moder him ȝaf at his parting. c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 7237 At asaut wiþ Gyes partinge Þat wers he hadde at þat wendinge. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xix. 57 (MED) He ȝaf largely alle his lele lyges Places in paradys at her partynge hennes. 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes i. xiv. 37 He shal be purueied bifore his partyng. c1550 Clariodus (1830) v. 2231 As..Lucifer in pairting of the night. 1603 King James VI & I in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. III. 78 My sonne, that I see you not before my pairting impute it to this great occasion. 1656 P. Heylyn Extraneus Vapulans 64 To let him know, that the Company was upon the parting. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 42 Nothing troubled me at my parting from the Island. 1869 C. Heavysege Saul (new ed.) ii. 194 Who can, at parting, picture his return? 2. a. Mutual separation of two or more people; the action of leaving one another's company; leave-taking. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > [noun] > parting from one another partingc1330 scattering1382 sculda1400 twina1400 c1330 (?c1300) Amis & Amiloun (Auch.) (1937) 325 (MED) Gret sorwe þai made at her parting & kisten hem wiþ eiȝen wepeing. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) 15541 (MED) Þis ilk niȝt salle be parting [a1400 Vesp. sculd; a1400 Gött. skaile; a1400 Trin. Cambr. scateryng] be-twix ȝou and me. c1430 N. Love Mirror (Gibbs MS.) xlviii. lf. 101 A my dere sone a byttre partynge was thys. a1500 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 15th Cent. (1939) 262 (MED) What sorowe is the departyng Of ij trewe hertis louyng feithfully, ffor partyng is the most soroughfull thynge..that euer yet knewe I. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. i. 229 Good night, good night, parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 1004 In these he put two weights The sequel each of parting and of fight; The latter quick up flew. View more context for this quotation 1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 375 We parted..with such Testimonies of Kindness and Affection as I thought were Equal, if not Superior to that at our parting at Dunstable. 1773 S. Johnson Let. 20 Mar. (1992) II. 22 The last parting is very afflictive. 1816 J. Austen Emma II. xiii. 242 Every thing tender and charming was to mark their parting; but still they were to part. View more context for this quotation 1843 C. Dickens Christmas Carol iv. 126 Not another word. That was their meeting, their conversation, and their parting. 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 67 I said..a few words to the boys at parting. 1909 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Avonlea xxiii ‘Come again, Laddie,’ said Miss Lavendar, shaking hands with him at parting. 1966 C. Ekwensi Lokotown ii. 5 Her escort dropped her in front of the yellow building on Skylark Avenue. She was used to being stared at by people..so she made a great show of the parting. 1991 P. Kussi tr. M. Kundera Immortality ii. viii. 64 After their parting, the traces of that magic moment stayed with them for a long time. b. The action of leaving the company of another person or party; leave-taking from or with a person. Also figurative. ΚΠ 1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 ii. vi. 4 I feare thine ouerthrow, More then my bodies parting from my soule. 1688 R. Blackbourn Clitie i. 18 He..gave her an exact account of all that hapned since his parting from her. 1779 Mirror No. 8 Suffice it to say, that my parting with the Dervise was very tender. 1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Devereux I. i. ii. 15 Our parting with our uncle was quite pathetic. a1894 R. L. Stevenson In South Seas (1896) i. ix. 79 Her parting with each, when she came to leave, was gracious and pretty. 1917 E. Wharton Summer xv. 215 The morning after her parting from Harney..Verena told her that her guardian had gone off to Worcester and Portland. 1992 W. Horwood Duncton Tales (BNC) 108 Returning back to the Eastside with Fieldfare..she would be taciturn and morose, and her parting for her own burrows would be of the briefest sort. 2002 Vogue (U.S. ed.) Mar. 585/2 When former Today show anchor man Deborah Norville had a not entirely amicable parting with NBC, she..exchanged the long, layered look..for a chic short do. 3. With with. The action of giving up or handing over a person or (now usually) a thing; disposal, renunciation, surrender. Cf. part v. 5a. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > [noun] > parting with or letting go departing with1529 letting go1565 loose1615 parting1665 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xiv. sig. Ff7^v The parting with a greater Fortune, as freely as with a lesser. 1688 Ess. Magistracy in Harl. Misc. I. 7 The parting with it tamely would argue the greatest stupidity and inconcernedness. 1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. III. 482 The parting with a beloved Child is at any time an Affliction. 1751 Lady Luxborough Let. 14 July in Lett. to W. Shenstone (1775) 281 A lawyer..to see me execute a fine, in consequence of my parting with my house in London. 1804 M. Edgeworth Ennui xxi The parting with a watch and some other trinkets..enabled me to pay this money. 1839 Lett. fr. Madras (1843) 283 That is the grand Indian sorrow—the necessity of parting with one's children. 1865 Q. Rev. July 17 There was a something repugnant to the just pride of the Highland gentleman in the very idea of parting with his seigneurial rights, even for a season. 1901 P. Fountain Deserts N. Amer. vii. 118 The Indians had a singular custom in parting with their land. They sold it by the ‘walk’. 1988 Which? Dec. 562/1 We've looked at what's on offer from some of the major stores to ease the process of parting with the readies. II. Senses relating to sharing and division into parts. †4. a. Division into shares; division or distribution among a number of people; the action of giving a share to another or others. Obsolete (rare after 16th cent.). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > [noun] > dividing and sharing out partingc1330 departinga1340 divisionc1380 partition1429 departison1444 dividentc1450 skiftingc1450 partage1484 portiona1513 departition?c1530 dividend1535 portioning1556 reparting1574 repartment1574 parcery1582 sharing1598 apportion1628 compartition1636 department1677 dividing1719 whacking1851 partitionment1864 divide1873 share-out1877 whack1885 sharesies1916 carve-up1935 c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 4067 (MED) Grete riches Arthour..ȝaf Bohort & Ban And bad it part among her man..After þat gentil parting, To Londen went Arthour. a1425 (?c1384) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 342 (MED) Cristis viker shulde be porerste man of oþir, and mekerst..But chesyng of cardinalis, and parting of benefices..ben ful fer fro þis staat. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 385 Partynge, or delynge, particio, distribucio. a1500 in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 171 The pore haue þe labur, the ryche the wynnyng. This acordythe nowȝte, it is a heuy partyng. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. lxxx^v They fell out about the partyng. 1895 N. Roy Generalship 172 She said there was great parting in the siller since Mr. Gilmour had been buying the things for the house in the wholesale way. b. The holding or taking of a share; a share or portion; sharing, partnership. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > sharing > [noun] del-takingc825 partakingc1384 partingc1384 communingc1425 participation?a1475 communicating1550 sharing1598 intercommonage1628 compartition1636 copartiality1677 deal1873 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) 2 Cor. vi. 14 What partynge [L. participatio], or comunynge, of riȝtwysnesse with wickidnesse? a1425 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Ezek. (Christ Church Oxf.) xlviii. 29 Þis is þe lond whiche ȝee shul senden in to lot to þe linagis of irael, & þese þe partingis [L. partitiones] of hem. c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 8 (MED) Lif a man a iust lif, and tryst he of þe parting of merit þat God gifiþ men. a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 129 (MED) Equite and kyndnesse might not suffre but that He war put in þe egalnesse of parting with oþir which departid all amonge othir. 5. a. The action of separating or putting apart; the fact of being separated; separation.In quot. c1350 referring to annulment of marriage or divorce. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [noun] asunderingeOE sheddingc1175 twinning?c1225 departingc1300 sunderinga1325 to-dighting1340 partingc1350 disseverancec1374 divisionc1374 severinga1382 departitionc1400 separation1413 sunderance1435 departisonc1440 deceperationa1450 severance1467 dissevering1488 dissever?1507 departurec1515 dividing1526 partition1530 sejunction1532 separatinga1557 sequestration1567 decision1574 divorce1593 disseveration16.. dissevermenta1603 sunderment1603 disparting1611 disunition1611 singling1625 divide1642 severation1649 concisure1656 department1677 secretion1696 abgregation1730 disengagement1791 disassociation1825 dispartment1869 dissociation1877 secernment1894 breakaway1897 delinkage1973 c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 66 Ȝyf þet one weddeþ þe þral, And..Ȝef he by wyl serueþ þat flesch, Ryȝt partyng worthe hym none. a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 1803 (MED) Dede es noght elles..Bot a partyng of þe saul and body. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 385 Partynge a-sundyr, separacio, segregacio, divisio. a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Washington) (1965) 7372 (MED) Alle han to-gidre a fastnyng So þat þer may be no parting. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) II. 133 Calamint is raised by Slipping, or parting of the Roots. 1745 E. Haywood Female Spectator I. 121 The parting of Friends and Lovers, is like the parting of the Soul and Body, always most easy when least warn'd of it. 1828 N. Hawthorne Fanshawe viii. 90 It was more terrible to stand alone in the dim morning light, than even to watch the parting of soul and body. 1905 E. Wharton House of Mirth i. xii. 214 Miss Farish's confidences were cut short by the parting of the curtain on the first tableau. 1914 E. R. Burroughs Tarzan of Apes v. 59 So intent was he upon this personal appraisement of his features that he did not hear the parting of the tall grass behind him. 1992 MotorHome Feb. 112/3 I felt like Moses at the parting of the Red Sea. b. Metallurgy. The separation of gold and silver from each other, esp. by means of acid. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [noun] > chemical reactions or processes (named) > separation > specific separation processes departa1626 parting1662 inquart1683 departure1741 disassociation1814 dialysis1861 dissociation1869 inquartation1881 1662 C. Merrett tr. A. Neri Art of Glass xxxviii. 62 (heading) How to make Aqua-fortis call'd parting water, which dissolves silver and quick-silver. 1679 Philos. Trans. 1677 (Royal Soc.) 12 1046 Parting is done with Aqua fortis. 1710 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum II Parting, is one of the Refiner's ways to separate Gold and Silver. 1780 Philos. Trans. 1779 (Royal Soc.) 69 530 The whole melted produced a regulus of lead,..which, on coppelling with a few grains of silver, and parting in aqua fortis, left one sixtenth of a troy grain of gold. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1059 In parting by nitric acid, the gold generally retains a little silver. 1938 R. Hum Chem. for Engin. Students xx. 543 The ‘parting’ of gold and silver can be carried out in several ways. 1991 J. Blair & N. Ramsay Eng. Medieval Industries vi. 110 Acid parting (in which the silver is dissolved out of the gold by nitric acid)..is not a method evidenced in England. c. Turning. The separation of a piece of wood or metal from a longer length, esp. to remove it from a lathe. Usually in parting off (frequently attributive). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > other processes framing1440 riving?1440 traversing1524 wedging1678 furring1679 cocking1710 bearding1711 battening1788 rossing1839 thicknessing1870 splining1901 parting off1905 reconditioning1932 stress grading1936 spindle moulding1979 1879 H. Northcott in Cassell's Techn. Educator IV. 71/2 Tools..chiefly for ‘parting’, or cutting off pieces of work from the main cylinder or log. 1905 J. Horner Tools for Engineers & Woodworkers v. 60 Tools for parting off..have clearance both behind and below. 1923 C. M. Linley Lathe Users' Handbk. v. 88 In capstan work where parting-off tools are in continual use..I have used milling cutters or slitting saws as tools with great success. 1950 C. T. Bower in A. W. Judge Machine Tools & Operations II. viii. 186 The parting-off saw shown..has been evolved for cutting off non-ferrous extrusions or bars up to 4 in. by 2½ in. deep. 1977 C. R. Shotbolt Technician Workshop Processes & Materials I. vii. 84/1 The draw tube and the back end of the collet are hollow to permit bars to be fed through the spindle for repetition turning and parting-off of workpieces. 1997 Metalworking Production Apr. 20/1 (heading) Ideal for precision corner radii, rounded bottom or for narrow grooving and parting off with minimised material waste. †6. The action of dividing something into parts; the fact of undergoing division; breaking, cleaving, division; (Nautical) the breaking loose of a ship from its mooring. See part v. 2, 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > [noun] partinga1382 distinctiona1387 partition1517 quartering1555 distincting1570 distinguishing1587 dividedness1656 scission1676 dismembering1677 dismemberment1727 splitting1737 repulsion1771 dipartition1838 splitting1847 piecemealing1853 diaeresis1856 fission1865 split-up1878 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Exod. viii. 23 I schall sette partyng [a1425 L.V. departyng; L. divisionem] by twix myn puple & þi puple. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 126 Athomus is þe xlvijti. part of an vncia and hatte athomus, as it were, with oute devisioun and partynge. ?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 6 The firste [manner of working] is ihad by deuysioun or partyne and vnderdyuysioun of þe operaciouns or werkes of cirurgie. 1473 Reg. Bk. Cupar-Angus (1879) I. 173 The sade toun salbe pairtyt in twa..with lele pairtyn be cut and quavyl. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 252/1 Partyng of any thyng, partaige. 1555 A. Mainardi (title) An Anatomi, that is to say a parting in peeces of the Mass. 1666 R. Boyle Origine Formes & Qualities 136 In the parting of it into halfes (as when our Hazle Nuts..part in the middle longwise). 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Tablature... In Anatomy, it signifies a Division, or parting of the Scull-bones. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. iii. 146 There being great danger of the ship's parting. 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Parting..(Nautical.) Breaking cable, leaving the anchor in the ground. 7. a. A place at which two or more things divide or are separated. See also water-parting n. parting of the ways n. the place at which a road or path divides into two or more branches proceeding in different directions; (figurative) a point at which two people must separate or at which a decision must be made.In quot. a1600 parting of gates n. a crossroads or other road junction. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inclination > divergence > [noun] > place where divergence occurs twisel931 partingc1425 divarication1691 bifurcation1766 furcation1863 shear1876 society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > junction of roads, paths, or tracks > [noun] > fork gateshodelc1440 parting of the ways1611 fork-way1819 fork1855 the mind > will > decision > [noun] > point at which decision must be made parting of the ways1848 c1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 108 (MED) Whan he is passid þe partyng of þe quarter and entred in to a newe quarter, he shuld blow iii moot. a1525 Coventry Leet Bk. 50 Þer is a way..wiche is stoppyd wrongfully, as hit comyth, by heggynges & partynges on euery-side. a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) ix. iii. f. 291^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Gate In stretis and parting of gatis, quhare pepill resortit,..the lawis of the ewangell war preichit. 1611 Bible (King James) Ezek. xxi. 21 The king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two wayes, to vse diuination. View more context for this quotation 1670 in H. W. Richardson York Deeds (Maine) (1887) II. f. 91 Mr Dummers Cove of Marsh neare to the Partings of the River. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 117 The parting of the double ruby-pout of his lips seem'd to exhale an air sweeter and purer than what it drew in. 1848 J. R. Lowell Parting of Ways i Who hath not..Stood doubtful at the Parting of the Ways? a1862 H. D. Thoreau Cape Cod (1865) vi. 114 The ocean is but a larger lake. At midsummer you may sometimes see a strip of glassy smoothness on it,..a sort of stand-still, you would say, at the meeting or parting of two currents of air. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1460/1 An exact parting is now made with the trowel along the median line, if the casting be symmetrical. 1897 Marquis of Salisbury Speech in Lords 19 Jan. For the difficulties in which we find ourselves now, the parting of the ways was in 1853, when the Emperor Nicholas's proposals were rejected. 1911 A. Bennett Jrnl. 20 Jan. (1932) II. 2 This book makes a deep impression on me, and even causes me to examine my own career, and to wonder whether I have not arrived at a parting-of-the-ways therein. 1949 Times 11 Feb. 5/2 She [sc. Israel] is at the parting of the ways. 1989 Glasgow Herald 26 May 1 I think there will be a parting of the ways after 25 years... The partnership..had not worked in its present present form. 2000 Marie Claire July 48/1 Dwellings..can be fitted to accommodate changes in the family—extra kids, an additional couple or family due to a child's marriage, or a parting of the ways. b. A dividing line formed in a person's hair where it has been combed in different directions. Cf. part v. 8c. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > parts of the hair or head relating to hairdressing > [noun] > parting shodec1000 cleftc1325 shedc1325 shodingc1440 seam1585 parting1699 part1864 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 24 Discrimen capillorum,..the seame of the head or parting of the haire. 1699 G. Farquhar Love & Bottle iii. i. 28 Does the parting of my Fore-top shew so thin? 1838 F. S. L. Osgood Wreath Wild Flowers 312 The simple parting of the sun-brown hair, The large and lustrous eyes, all eloquent. 1862 Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles I. i. 12 Smoothing the parting of the glossy brown hair on her well-shaped head. 1887 J. Ashby-Sterry Lazy Minstrel (1892) 193 My hair is getting thin,..Old Time has made my parting wide, And sunk my hopes to zero. 1958 B. Behan Borstal Boy iii. 262 He..tried to stop the men wearing their hair in the Gaelic style, straight back and with no parting. 1986 J. Elliott Dr Gruger's Daughter (1989) viii. 91 He..combed his hair (centre parting) in the gents. 2000 N.Y. Times Mag. 17 Sept. 126/2 She hadn't neglected the venerable Hindu mark of a married woman, the smudge of red sindoor powder in the parting of her hair. c. Founding. The surface at which the two parts of a mould meet. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > casting equipment > mould > parts or accessories of mould flask1697 sharp1703 core1728 oddside1836 drawback1843 cope1856 nowel1864 rapping plate1876 prod1888 knock-out1893 undercut1909 hot top1917 tundish1926 pipe chaplet1934 natch1941 parting1967 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1634/2 Parting,..4. (Founding.) The meeting surfaces of the sand rammed up in the cope and in the drag. 1906 P. N. Hasluck Metalworking 32/2 Cut a hole through the sand in the top box to the parting. 1951 R. J. Wolf in L. S. Marks Mech. Engineers' Handbk. (ed. 5) xiii. 1703 The molder does not have to make the parting on each mold by hand. 1967 A. K. Osborne Encycl. Iron & Steel Industry (ed. 2) 306/2 Parting, the area of separation between the bottom face of the top part of the mould, and the top face of the bottom part. †8. The action of taking a particular side. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > [noun] > partisanship or factionalism partiality1520 partaking1533 factiona1538 factiousness1572 siding1600 side-taking1626 parting1652 partying1681 party spirit1705 party1726 party feeling1796 partyism1831 partisanship1834 factionism1848 partisanism1850 factionalism1855 partisanry1889 1652 W. Brough Preservative against Schisme in Sacred Princ. 31 With them there will be Siding and Parting. There cannot be Unity and Order. 9. a. Mining and Geology. A thin layer of rock, clay, etc., between two strata of a different rock type. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > thin layer > [noun] > separating strata seam1592 lissena1641 parting1708 stripe1799 slick1883 seamlet1891 1708 J. C. Compl. Collier 7 in T. Nourse Mistery of Husbandry Discover'd (ed. 3) A sort of bad foul Air, or Fume exhaling out of some Minerals, or partings of Stone. 1839 R. I. Murchison Silurian Syst. i. xxxv. 466 The laminae..are occasionally marked by very thin carbonaceous partings. 1940 F. F. Grout Kemp's Handbk. Rocks (ed. 6) viii. 181 The lean sandy or shaly partings in some coal beds. 1978 Nature 20 July 242/1 Thick-bedded lithic greywacke with thin silty or shaly partings. 1991 R. Goldring Fossils in Field i. 4 More precise stratigraphical information may be obtained from thin muddy partings, yielding spores, pollen and occasional microplankton. †b. Founding. Fine dry sand or other powdery substance sprinkled on the facing surfaces of a mould to prevent adhesion. Cf. parting sand n. at Compounds 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > materials used in metallurgical processes > [noun] > sand or powder used in founding parting sand1852 parting1875 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1461/2 The charcoal-dust of the black-wash acts as a parting. Compounds C1. a. (In sense 1.) (a) General attributive, as parting blow, parting kiss, parting look, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [adjective] > relating to death mortalc1425 deadly1470 capitalc1475 mortuary1542 parting?1570 deada1586 defunctive1601 lethal1607 deathly1763 deathya1822 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > [adjective] finalc1365 endinga1400 finial?a1400 endly1436 conclusional1471 terminalc1475 parting?1570 supreme1570 terminant1589 desinent1608 terminative1613 conclusive1639 graciousa1701 finishing1705 ultimate1755 concluding1795 closing1796 wind-up1843 net1844 conclusory1846 terminational1874 summative1877 wrap-up1968 ?1570 E. Elviden Hist. Pesistratus & Catanea sig. J.vi^v With parting kysse they past, appointing time renewde, When there in present place againe eche other might be viewde. 1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. B3 Thus much I must say for a parting blow. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) i. iii. 35 Ere I could, Giue him that parting kisse. View more context for this quotation 1646 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple 90 Harke shee is called, the parting houre is come. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis x, in tr. Virgil Wks. 535 But first receive this parting Legacy. He said: and straight a whirling Dart he sent. 1699 R. Cocks Diary 26 Nov. in D. W. Hayton Parl. Diary (1996) 35 Mr How reflected on the parting speech and on th[e] ministry. 1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 44 When he came to give me as it were a parting Kiss, I burst out into such a Passion of Crying, that tho' I would have spoke, I could not. 1781 R. B. Sheridan Critic ii. ii If you go out without the parting look you might as well dance out. 1794 R. Southey Frederic 6 That deep cry..seems to sound My parting knell. 1832 E. C. Wines Two Years & Half in Navy I. 2 Many of my friends..came down to the landing to extend to me the parting hand. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 266 This seems to be indicated by his parting words. 1984 D. Leavitt Family Dancing 112 He casts a parting glance at Elaine. (b) parting shot n. (a) literal the final shot fired, esp. before departure; (b) a final remark, usually pointed or cutting, made by a person at the moment of leaving; also figurative (cf. Parthian shot at Parthian adj. 2). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > answer > [noun] > a sharp answer, retort > at departure Parthianc1640 parting shot1835 1835 W. G. Simms Yemassee II. xxii. 189 A parting shot from the muskets of the seamen was made with a fatal effect. 1888 J. Payn Myst. Mirbridge I. xiii. 215 That was a parting shot he took at you, by jingo! 1906 J. Galsworthy Man of Prop. iii. ix. 372 He could not resist a parting shot. ‘H'mm! All flourishing at home? Any little Soameses yet?’ 1963 Daily Tel. 19 Aug. 8/6 It was also something of a parting shot, following a 100 yards victory in 9·9 sec. 1998 Post & Courier (Charleston, S. Carolina) (Nexis) 29 June b1 As the fleet retreated the commodore's ship, the Bristol, was hit with a parting shot from Marion and sunk. 2001 C. Glazebrook Madolescents 311 As a parting shot, I dip Filthy's pockets. Two hundred quid and a mobile phone. b. (In sense 7a.) parting-point n. ΚΠ 1835 in H. P. Liddon et al. Life E. B. Pusey (1894) I. xv. 350 Mr. Maurice..made up his mind that it represented the parting-point between him and the Oxford School. 1959 A. Ridler Matter of Life & Death in Coll. Poems (1994) 135 Did you see God in parting from Him?..For if the parting-point was the point of vision, Then only through that gate can we return. C2. Esp. in names of instruments and devices used for separating or keeping things separate. In some of these, e.g. parting bead, rail, shard, strip, the attributive use of the noun can hardly be separated from that of the adjective (see parting adj.). Thus a parting strip may be viewed either as a strip used for parting, or as a strip that parts. † parting assay n. Obsolete an assay performed by physically separating the constituent metals. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > testing assayc1386 toucha1450 say1567 essay1668 assaying1728 parting assay1758 van1778 docimasy1803 touching1908 heat tinting1910 cupping1921 Magnaflux1935 1758 A. Reid tr. P. J. Macquer Elements Theory & Pract. Chym. I. 56 This method..is called the Parting Assay. parting bead n. a beaded strip in the frame of a sash window which keeps the sashes apart. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > parts of windows > [noun] > parts of sash windows parting bead1820 stop bead1876 parting stripa1884 1820 in C. R. Lounsbury Illustr. Gloss. Early Southern Archit. & Landscape (1994) 261 [At Bremo in Fluvanna County, Virginia, John Neilson installed] pullies 6 @ 6 each, Hanging Treble Window 7/6..$1.75, Parting Beads 3/..$.50. 1876 W. Papworth Gwilt's Encycl. Archit. (rev. ed.) Gloss. 1292 Parting Bead, the beaded slip inserted at the centre of the pulley style of a sash window, to keep the two sashes in their places. 1970 Guide to DIY 30/2 Other moulding patterns..are..parting bead (for sash windows), and [etc.]. 2000 Independent on Sunday 6 Aug. (Reality section) 27/3 Remove the parting bead (runs between the sashes) and the pocket piece (small removable panels that hide the weights). † parting glass n. Obsolete a glass vessel used in parting gold and silver with acid. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > equipment for testing quality of metal needle1469 touchstone1530 parting glass1594 proof needle1683 stroking needle1683 touch needle1683 Lydian-stone1720 scorifier1758 sebilla1839 sonometer1849 quantometer1927 1594 H. Plat Jewell House 79 Water in a parting glasse vpon warme imbers. 1679 Philos. Trans. 1677 (Royal Soc.) 12 1048 All the Gold lying, like black dirt, at the bottom, which being washed out is put into small Parting-Glasses, and set over the Sand with fair Conduit-water for an hour. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 766 Parting glasses..ought to be very well annealed, and chosen free from flaws. parting line n. Founding a line on a pattern or casting corresponding to the separation between two parts of a mould that fit together; (also) the line of separation between the two parts of a forging die. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > casting equipment > mould > line where parting meets surface of pattern parting line1875 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1460/1 The parting-line is..that line upon the pattern, as it lies in the sand, above and below which the sides of the pattern run inward from the perpendicular. 1952 J. Wulff et al. Metall. for Engineers xxvii. 521 Excess metal, called flash, is squeezed from the die faces at the parting line. 1984 E. P. DeGarmo et al. Materials & Processes in Manuf. (ed. 6) xi. 253 This requires that consideration be given to the parting line or surface where one section fits against the sand of the other section. parting plane n. Founding the plane of the parting line of a pattern or casting, or of a forging die. ΚΠ 1956 A. K. Osborne Encycl. Iron & Steel Industr. 304/2 Parting plane, the dividing plane between the two halves of a pair of forging dies. 1991 J. Blair & N. Ramsay Eng. Medieval Industries v. 103 Modern foundry practice..requires a horizontal parting plane between the two halves [of a cauldron]. parting rail n. a rail in a panelled door, etc., between the top and bottom rails. ΚΠ a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 660/1 Parting Rail, a rail intermediate between the bottom and top rails of a door or partition. 1979 Arizona Daily Star 5 Aug. b4 (advt.) You'll find deep beveled edges on drawlers and doors and recessed parting rails for added face relief. parting sand n. Founding fine dry sand sprinkled on to a mating surface of a mould to prevent adhesion of the mould surfaces and of the sand in each half of the mould. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > materials used in metallurgical processes > [noun] > sand or powder used in founding parting sand1852 parting1875 1852 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) I. 338/2 The mould is then dusted with dry parting-sand. 1927 Dict. Occup. Terms (Ministry of Labour) §180 Hand moulder..sprinkles a little ‘parting’ sand (burnt sand) on upper surface of lower box. 1964 S. Crawford Basic Engin. Processes (1969) x. 237 Parting sand is used to preserve the joint face between the cope and the drag and prevents the two lots of sand from adhering to each other. parting shard n. a thin piece of baked clay placed between pieces of unbaked ware to prevent adhesion during firing. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > pottery manufacturing equipment > [noun] > for supporting during firing plancha1544 parting shard1686 bat1825 stilt1825 spur1833 setter1853 slug1880 thimble1901 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iii. 123 Haveing only parting-shards, i.e. thin bits of old pots put between them, to keep them from sticking together. 1974 G. Savage & H. Newman Illustr. Dict. Ceramics 168 Kiln furniture, objects usually made of fire-clay for use in the kiln to support and protect ceramic ware during firing, e.g. saggers,..parting shards, [etc.]. parting slip n. Joinery a thin slip of wood fixed vertically inside the frame of a sliding sash window to keep the two counterbalancing weights apart when they move up and down. ΚΠ 1819 P. Nicholson Archit. Dict. II. 171/2 Parts of the foregoing [sc. a sash frame] at large... Parting slip of weights. 1950 M. T. Telling Carpentry & Joinery 43 To prevent this happening a long thin sliver of wood called a parting slip or wagtail is placed between them [sc. the weights] inside the box. parting strip n. a strip of material used for separating two parts, esp. = parting bead n. ΚΠ a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 660/1 Parting Strip, a narrow piece separating parts, as the strip between the upper and lower sashes in the window frame; or between the window and blind in a car. 1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 389/1 Adjustable Window Screen, so constructed as to form a perfect joint with the parting strip, so that it is not necessary to remove the screen in order to close the window. 1993 Collins Compl. DIY Man. (new ed.) iii. 211/3 Pieces of thin wood known as parting strips are usually suspended inside the box stiles to separate each pair of weights. parting tool n. any of various tools used for separating pieces of material or for trimming, cutting fine outlines, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > equipment for cutting > other trevat1831 parting tool1861 1861 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 29 Mar. 325/1 Both pieces are left as smooth at the end as if the cutting had been accomplished by a parting tool in a lathe. 1895 Mod. Steam Eng. 90 Side tools to cut at the side, Parting tools, narrow and sharp for parting work. 1943 S. H. Bell Summer Loanen 63 He blundered through the job, and when running the saddle up to put in a parting-tool, caught the calipers in the whirling chuck of the lathe. 1991 Woodworking Jan. 67/1 With the parting tool make a parting cut outside the skew groove to ¹/₂ in by making subsequent cuts towards the open end of the cyclinder. 2001 Routing Feb. 70/2 Getting started in woodturning... Lathe and tool selection.., skew chisel, spindle gouge, parting tool, [etc.]. † parting water n. Obsolete nitric acid as used in parting gold and silver. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical substances > acids > [noun] > acids-named > containing nitrogen > nitric acid strong water?a1425 water?c1425 aqua fortis1601 spirit of nitre1626 parting water1662 spirits of saltpetre1685 nitric acid1790 1662 C. Merrett tr. A. Neri Art of Glass xxxviii. 62 (heading) How to make Aqua-fortis call'd parting water, which dissolves silver and quick-silver. 1678 Philos. Trans. 1677 (Royal Soc.) 12 956 1 peny weight and 3 grains (27 grains) of fine Gold,..refined both by the Copel and Parting-water. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022). partingadj. Brit. /ˈpɑːtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpɑrdɪŋ/ Forms: see part v. and -ing suffix². Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: part v., -ing suffix². Etymology: < part v. + -ing suffix². I. Senses relating to sharing and division into parts. †1. That shares or participates. Only in parting fellow n. a sharer, a partner (cf. parti-fellow n.). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > sharing > [noun] > a sharer > in association with others partnerc1300 commoner1357 fellowa1382 parti-fellowa1500 participant1543 communer1548 parting fellow1557 participator1639 c1390 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale 637 Thise scorneres ben partyng felawes with the deuel. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xiii. 206 If pacience be owre partyng felawe And pryue with vs bothe. 1514 Will of Antony Stanyng (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/17) f. 247^v Partyng feloo. 1557 T. More Wks. i. 28 So will he in loue no parting felowes haue. 2. That separates or divides; that causes a separation or division of parts; forming a boundary or interval between two or more things.See also parting n. 7. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > [adjective] > of the nature of a partition or dividing parting1579 dividing1620 divident1644 partitional1658 intergerine1712 separating1908 1579 E. Hake Newes out of Powles Churchyarde newly Renued vii. sig. G2 Entending..to..seuer places by themselues, with styles and parting stakes. 1600 T. Dekker Shomakers Holiday 18 Have all your tooles, a good rubbing pine,..your parting knife, [etc.]. 1647 R. Baron Εροτοπαιγνιον I. i. i. 21 Nought breed in bridal sheets, but pinching feares, Iarres, discontents, suspitions, jelousies, Which nought but parting death can terminate. 1699 in Rec. Early Hist. Boston (1881) VII. 233 The gate in the parting line between Mr. Winthrops land and Major Townsends farm. 1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xi. 56 The Parting Space is that Distance which the Drill leaves betwixt the Row it plants in going one Way, and that Row which it makes in returning back. 1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 239 Occasionally there is a parting layer of pure flint. 1934 Amer. Home July 86/3 Bits of crochet work (similar to our antimacassars) are often sewn to the parting edge [of the curtains] as a protection against frequent handling and soil. 1982 O. Untracht Jewelry Concepts & Technol. xi. 483/1 Steatite (a soft, dense, easily carved talc that hardens after heat and needs no parting agent [when used as a mould for casting]). 1994 Doll Crafter Nov. 148/1 The last article concluded with the completion of the clay lay-up of the parting line. 3. That undergoes division; dividing, separating; breaking into pieces. parting pulley n. a pulley made in two semicircular halves; = split pulley n. at split adj. Compounds 1a(b). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > [adjective] > undergoing division parting1640 1640 T. Carew Poems 135 Or if sometimes he glance his squinting eye Betweene the parting cloudes, 'tis but to spye, Not emulate her glories. 1659 W. Chamberlayne Pharonnida i. ii. 20 Their Hair Wreath'd in contracting Curls, beneath a fair But often parting Vail, attempts to hide. 1703 M. Chudleigh Song of Three Children in Poems 23 The parting Skies with haste give way And show to trembling Men the bright eternal Day. 1719 S. Sewall Diary 14 Dec. (1973) II. 935 At the parting way came up with Col. Quincey. 1762 W. Falconer Shipwreck iii. 51 The parting Ship that instant is no more. a1771 T. Gray Statius in Mem. (1775) 9 Parting surges round the vessel roar. 1809 M. Hodson Wallace iv. xxxvi. 146 Deep thro' his hauberk's mail it drives, The parting bone asunder rives. 1854 O. W. Holmes New Eden 2 Scarce could the parting ocean close, Seamed by the Mayflower's cleaving bow, When [etc.]. 1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It p. xii The Parting Streams. a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 660/1 Parting pulley, one capable of division, so that the parts can be attached to the shaft without dismounting the latter. 1996 M. Kiene & J. Reinkemeyer in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Script Bk. (2000) 1st Season I. 336 (stage direct.) Then, without a word exchanged, the Hyena People move on through the parting crowd. 2002 Art in Amer. (Nexis) 1 June 121 A seduction is conveyed through the camera's meticulous recording..of such movements and details as shifting eyes or parting lips. II. Senses relating to departing. 4. That departs or goes away; (figurative) that dies; dying. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > [adjective] parting1562 away-going1709 departing1751 way-going1778 off-going1861 going1883 society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > [adjective] parting1562 going1638 departing1751 off-going1861 the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [adjective] > dying deadlyc893 swelting?a1400 dyingc1450 at (the) utterance1525 in (the, his) extremes1551 parting1562 Acherontic1597 ending1600 departing1603 on one's last legs1614 expiring1635 mortifying1649 morient1679 upon one's last stretch1680 gasping1681 à la mort1700 moribund1721 outward-bound1809 terminal1854 on the brink of the grave1872 defunctive1929 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > [adjective] > relating to parting from one another parting1562 farewella1711 1562 A. Brooke tr. M. Bandello Tragicall Hist. Romeus & Iuliet f. 78 For straight my parting sprite, out of this carkas fled, At ease shall finde my Romeus sprite, emong so many ded. 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) v. f. 57 Now gasping out his parting ghost, his death he did lament. a1577 G. Gascoigne In Praise Gentlewoman in Wks. (1587) 284 And she to quyte hys loue..dyd yeeld her parting breath. 1602 F. Beaumont tr. Ovid Salmacis & Hermaphroditus sig. D2^v But euer since his wheeles Were stole away, his burning chariot reeles Tow'rds the declining of the parting day. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) ii. v. 115 And Peace, no Warre, befall thy parting Soule. View more context for this quotation 1629 J. Beaumont Bosworth Field 14 The swords and armours shine as sparkling coales, Their clashing drownes the grones of parting soules. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 276 Both by thee informd I learne, And from the parting Angel over-heard. View more context for this quotation 1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur vii. 213 Wallowing he lay a vast extended Load, Like a great Island, in a Sea of Blood. His ghastly Eye-balls strive with parting Light, And swim, and roll into eternal Night. 1751 T. Gray Elegy i. 5 The curfeu tolls the knell of parting day. 1790 A. Wilson Poems 19 The parting Year prepares to wing its way. 1810 L. Aikin Epist. Women iv. 71 On his Alfred's child, The parting Genius gazed, and fondly smiled. 1826 J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans II. vi. 98 As the flame arose, its power exceeded that of the parting day, and assisted to render objects, at the same time, more distinct and more hideous. 1866 J. M. Neale Sequences & Hymns 127 To fortify the parting soul. 1912 Times 19 Oct. 6/1 Her smile will fall on many a scene of carnage and desolation and light up the pathos of many a parting spirit on its way to an unknown world. 1978 Times 6 Oct. 18/6 There are portraits of his patrons.., these often commissioned as presents for his masters to take on a visit or give to the parting guest. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1300adj.c1390
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