Partition vs Parting - What's the difference?
partition | parting | Synonyms |
An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
* Shakespeare
A part of something that has been divided.
The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
A vertical structure that divides a room.
That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.
* Dryden
A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
* Milton
(legal) The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
(computing) A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
(databases) A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
(set theory) A collection of non-empty, disjoint subsets of a set whose union is the set itself (i.e. all elements of the set are contained in exactly one of the subsets).
(music) A musical score.
To divide something into parts, sections or shares
To divide a region or country into two or more territories with separate political status
To separate or divide a room by a partition (ex. a wall), often use with off
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)
Partition is a synonym of parting.
As nouns the difference between partition and parting
is that partition is partition (section of a hard disk separately formatted) while parting is the act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation.As a verb parting is
.partition
English
(wikipedia partition)Noun
(en noun)- And good from bad find no partition .
- ''Monarchies where partition isn't prohibited risk weakening trough parcellation and civil wars between the heirs
- a brick partition'''; lath and plaster '''partitions
- No sight could pass / Betwixt the nice partitions of the grass.
- Lodged in a small partition .
Usage notes
* (set theory) The elements of the collection are sometimes called the blocks or parts of the partition.Synonyms
* dismembermentDerived terms
* equipartitionVerb
(en verb) (transitive)Synonyms
* dismemberDerived terms
* partitioner * partitionistparting
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.
