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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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demarcation
English
Alternative forms
- demarkation
Etymology
First recorded c.1752, from Spanish línea de demarcación and/or Portuguese linha de demarcação, the demarcation line laid down by the Pope on May 4, 1493, dividing the New World between Spain and Portugal on a line 100 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands. Both derive from demarcar, from de- + marcar (“to mark”), from Italian marcare, from the Germanic root of march.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?d?m???ke???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
demarcation (countable and uncountable, plural demarcations)
- The act of marking off a boundary or setting a limit, notably by belligerents signing a treaty or ceasefire.
- A limit thus fixed, in full demarcation line.
- Any strictly defined separation.
- There is an alleged, in fact somewhat artificial demarcation in the type of work done by members of different trade unions.
Derived terms
- demarcate (back-formation)
- demarcated
Related terms
- demarc
- demarcation line
- demark
- marcation
Translations
Further reading
- demarcation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- demarcation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Tremadocian
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