different between severance vs parting

English

Alternative forms

• severaunce

Etymology

From Middle English severaunce, from Anglo-Norman, Old French sevrance, from sevrer.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?v.??ns/, /?s?v.??(?)n?s/

Noun

severance (countable and uncountable, plural severances)

1. The act of severing or the state of being severed.
2. A separation.
3. A severance payment.

Synonyms

• (separation): separation
• (severance payment): severance payment, severance pay

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p??t??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??t??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t??

Noun

parting (plural partings)

1. The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation.

   • The parting of the way.

2. 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.

3. (Britain) 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. (chemistry) The separation and determination of alloys; especially, the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button.
6. (geology) A joint or fissure, as in a coal seam.
7. (nautical) The breaking, as of a cable, by violence.
8. (mineralogy) Lamellar separation in a crystallized mineral, due to some other cause than cleavage, as to the presence of twinning lamellae.

Translations

Verb

parting

1. present participle of part

Derived terms

• parting shot

Anagrams

• prating, rapting, tarping, traping, tripang