parting

/ˈpɑːtɪŋ//ˈpɑɹtɪŋ/

verb

1
To leave the company of.
2
To cut hair with a parting; shed.
3
To divide in two.
“to part the curtains”
4
To be divided in two or separated; shed.
“A rope parts. His hair parts in the middle.”
5
To divide up; to share.
6
To have a part or share; to partake.
7
To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
8
To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
9
To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
“to part gold from silver”
10
To leave; to quit.
11
To leave (an IRC channel).

1
The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation.
2
A farewell, the act of departing politely.
3
The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions; part (US)
4
(founding) The surface of the sand of one section of a mould where it meets that of another section.
5
The separation and determination of alloys; especially, the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button.
6
A joint or fissure, as in a coal seam.
7
The breaking, as of a cable, by violence.
8
Lamellar separation in a crystallized mineral, due to some other cause than cleavage, as to the presence of twinning lamellae.

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