Fringe vs Parting - What's the difference?
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A decorative border.
A marginal or peripheral part.
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Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding unorthodox views.
The periphery of a town or city.
That part of the hair that hangs down above the eyes; bangs.
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(label) A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.
Non-mainstream theatre.
(label) The peristome or fringe-like appendage of the capsules of most mosses.
Outside the mainstream.
To decorate with fringe.
To serve as a fringe.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 2
The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation.
* Bible, Ezekiel xxi. 21
A farewell, the act of departing politely.
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* 1900 , L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
(British) 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.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between fringe and parting
is that fringe is a decorative border while parting is the act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation.As verbs the difference between fringe and parting
is that fringe is to decorate with fringe while parting is .As an adjective fringe
is outside the mainstream.fringe
English
Noun
(en noun)- the fringe of a picture
- the confines of grace and the fringes of repentance
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- He lives in the fringe of London.
- Her fringe is so long it covers her eyes.
- In a few minutes Mrs. Athelny appeared. She had taken her hair out of the curling pins and now wore an elaborate fringe .
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- Fayne in the photograph had a fringe , hair frizzed over hidden ears, sleeves over-ornate, the whole thing out of keeping.
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- Ingeborg knew she wasn?t ready for fringes or short hair like some of the women she?d seen, and she hoped her daughter wasn?t either.
- “No.” Astrid?s tone dismissed Sophie and the fringe as she galloped off to a new topic.
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- Set against the seductive visual and textual imagery of these soft-focus fantasy worlds, the stock list details offer the reader a very real solution to achieving the look themselves, ‘Hair, including coloured fringes (obtainable from Joseph, £3.50) by Paul Nix’ (Baker 1972a: 68).
- interference fringe
- The Fringe''; ''Edinburgh Fringe'''''; ''Adelaide '''Fringe
Synonyms
* (hair in front) forelock, bangs (US) *Derived terms
* fringe benefit * fringy * lunatic fringeAdjective
(-)Synonyms
* nonmainstreamVerb
(fring)- Purple bonnets fringed soft, pink, querulous faces on pillows in bath chairs.
Anagrams
*parting
English
Noun
(en noun)- The parting of the way.
- And there were sudden partings ,such as press / The life from out young hearts.
- 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.