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parting
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p??t??/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p??t??/
- Rhymes: -??(?)t??
Noun
parting (plural partings)
- The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation.
- The parting of the way.
- A farewell, the act of departing politely.
- 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
- But she hugged the soft, stuffed body of the Scarecrow in her arms instead of kissing his painted face, and found she was crying herself at this sorrowful parting from her loving comrades.
- 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
- (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.
Translations
Verb
parting
- present participle of part
Derived terms
- parting shot
Anagrams
- prating, rapting, tarping, traping, tripang
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assignment
English
Etymology
From Middle English assignement, from Old French assignement.
Pronunciation
Noun
assignment (countable and uncountable, plural assignments)
- The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
- This flow chart represents the assignment of tasks in our committee.
- The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
- We should not condone the assignment of asylum seekers to that of people smugglers.
- An assigned task.
- The assignment the department gave him proved to be quite challenging.
- A position to which someone is assigned.
- Unbeknownst to Mr Smith, his new assignment was in fact a demotion.
- (education) A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.
- Mrs Smith gave out our assignments, and said we had to finish them by Monday.
- (law) A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another.
- The assignment of the lease has not been finalised yet.
- (law) A document that effects this transfer.
- Once you receive the assignment in the post, be sure to sign it and send it back as soon as possible.
- (programming) An operation that assigns a value to a variable.
Hyponyms
- (programming): augmented assignment
Translations
References
- assignment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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