parting meaning
EN
[-ɑː(r)tɪŋ] 
US WParting
- Parting may refer to:
- Parting tradition
- Cleavage (crystal)#Parting
- NounPLpartingsPREpar-SUF-ing
- The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation.
- A farewell, the act of departing politely.
- (Britain) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions; part (US).
- (founding) The surface of the sand of one section of a mould where it meets that of another section.
- (chemistry) The separation and determination of alloys; especially, the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button.
- (geology) A joint or fissure, as in a coal seam.
- (nautical) The breaking, as of a cable, by violence.
- (mineralogy) Lamellar separation in a crystallized mineral, due to some other cause than cleavage, as to the presence of twinning lamellae.
- The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation.
- Verb
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- We came to a parting of the ways because of our different ideas about what should be done to move the company forward.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of parting in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
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- Nouns
- en partings
- en parting gift
- en parting sand
- en parting shot
- en parting shots
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "parting" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a verb form.