Parting vs Going - What's the difference?
parting | going |
The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation.
* Bible, Ezekiel xxi. 21
A farewell, the act of departing politely.
* Byron
* 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)
A departure.
* Thy going is not lonely, with thee goes thy Husband
The suitability of ground for riding, walking etc.
progress
(figurative) Conditions for advancing in any way.
(obsolete) pregnancy; gestation; childbearing
* (Crew)
(in the plural) Course of life; behaviour; doings; ways.
* Bible, Job 34.21:
Likely to continue; viable.
That attends habitually or regularly.
Current, prevailing.
(after a noun phrase with a superlative) Available.
As nouns the difference between parting and going
is that parting is the act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation while going is a departure.As verbs the difference between parting and going
is that parting is while going is .As an adjective going is
likely to continue; viable.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.
Verb
(head)Derived terms
* parting shotAnagrams
* *going
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(head)Etymology 2
From (etyl), present participle ofNoun
(en noun)- The going was very difficult over the ice.
- We made good going for a while, but then we came to the price.
- Not only weren't the streets paved with gold, but the going was difficult for an immigrant.
- His eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings .
Adjective
(-)- He didn't want to make an unsecured loan to the business because it didn't look like a going concern.
- The going rate for manual snow-shoveling is $25 an hour.
- He has the easiest job going .