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Abend vs Amend - What's the difference?

abend | amend |

As verbs the difference between abend and amend

is that abend is to terminate abnormally while amend is to make better.

As a noun abend

is an abnormal termination of a program.

As an adjective ABEND

is acronym of absent by enforced net deprivation|lang=en.

abend

English

Alternative forms

* ABEND

Noun

(en noun)
  • (computing) An abnormal termination of a program.
  • (IEEE) Termination of a process prior to completion.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To terminate abnormally.
  • ''"The nightly invoicing job abended at 3am."

    See also

    * abort * exception

    Anagrams

    * *

    References

    amend

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make better.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.}}
  • * Shakespeare
  • Mar not the thing that cannot be amended .
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman.
  • To become better.
  • (obsolete) To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.).
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.x:
  • But Paridell complaynd, that his late fight / With Britomart, so sore did him offend, / That ryde he could not, till his hurts he did amend .
  • *, II.2.6.ii:
  • he gave her a vomit, and conveyed a serpent, such as she conceived, into the basin; upon the sight of it she was amended .
  • To make a formal alteration in legislation by adding, deleting, or rephrasing.
  • Synonyms

    * ameliorate * correct * improve * See also * See also

    References

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    Anagrams

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