A versatile compound verb with several related senses clustered around the core idea of separation or distance. Active voice uses include keeping something off or away from something else—the collar-bone parts the neck from the shoulders. It can mean to hold back one's hands from someone, or with the impersonal construction, to indicate that nothing prevents or hinders an action. The middle voice develops distinctive commercial and experiential meanings: to have received something in full (especially payment), to be distant from a place, or to abstain from something. Additional nuances include being sufficient and, in older texts, returning from a journey.