Meeting vs. Parting — What's the Difference?

A meeting is when two or more people come together to discuss one or more topics, often in a formal or business setting, but meetings also occur in a variety of other environments. Many various types of meetings exist.

The act or process of separating or dividing.

The act or process or an instance of coming together; an encounter.

The state of being separated or divided.

An assembly or gathering of people, as for a business, social, or religious purpose.

A departure or leave-taking.

The act of persons or things that meet.

Given, received, or done on departing or separating

A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.

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

(collective) The people at such a gathering.

A farewell, the act of departing politely.

An encounter between people, even accidental.

(British) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions; part (US)

A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence.

(founding) The surface of the sand of one section of a mould where it meets that of another section.

A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.

(chemistry) The separation and determination of alloys; especially, the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button.

(Quakerism) An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

(geology) A joint or fissure, as in a coal seam.

Present participle of meet

(nautical) The breaking, as of a cable, by violence.

A coming together; an assembling; as, the meeting of Congress.

(mineralogy) Lamellar separation in a crystallized mineral, due to some other cause than cleavage, as to the presence of twinning lamellae.

A junction, crossing, or union; as, the meeting of the roads or of two rivers.

Present participle of part

A congregation; a collection of people; a convention; as, a large meeting; an harmonious meeting.

Serving to part; dividing; separating.

An assembly for worship; as, to attend meeting on Sunday; - in England, applied distinctively and disparagingly to the worshiping assemblies of Dissenters.

Given when departing; as, a parting shot; a parting salute.

A formally arranged gathering;

Departing.

The social act of assembling for some common purpose;

Admitting of being parted; partible.

A small informal social gathering;

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

A casual or unexpected convergence;

A separation; a leave-taking.

The act of joining together as one;

A surface or line of separation where a division occurs.

A place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers);

The surface of the sand of one section of a mold where it meets that of another section.

The separation and determination of alloys; esp., the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button.

A joint or fissure, as in a coal seam.

The breaking, as of a cable, by violence.

Lamellar separation in a crystallized mineral, due to some other cause than cleavage, as to the presence of twinning lamellæ.

The act of departing politely;

Delivered at the moment of parting as if in flight or retreat;