Abort vs Aboot - What's the difference?
abort | aboot |
(obsolete) A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion.
*, I.2.4.vi:
(military, aeronautics) An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.
(computing) The function used to abort a process.
(computing) An event involving the abort of a process.
To miscarry; to bring forth offspring prematurely.
To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.
To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.
(biology) To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to cease organic growth before maturation; to become sterile.
(biology) To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.
(military) To fail or abandon a mission for any reason other than enemy action, at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion.
(aeronautics) To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely.
To cause a premature termination of a foetus; to bring forth offspring prematurely; to end a pregnancy before term.
(computing) To terminate a process prior to completion.
* , “An Hi?torical Account of the Trade Winds'' and ''Mon?oons'', ob?ervable in the Seas between and near the ''Tropicks'', with an attempt to a??ign the Phy?ical Cau?e of the ?aid Winds”, re-printed in ''Mi?cellanea Curio?a: Containing a Collection of ?ome of the Principal Phænomena in Nature, Accounted for by the Greate?t Philo?ophers of this Age; Being the Mo?t Valuable Di?courses, Read and Delivered to the Royal Society, for the Advancement of Phy?ical and Mathematical Knowledge, As al?o a Collection of Curious ''Travels'', ''Voyages'', ''Antiquities'', and ''Natural Hi?tories'' of Countries; Pre?ented to the ?ame Society , second edition, volume I,
* 1889 , , The Mystery of Cloomber , chapter 8,
* 1926 August, , “From Missouri”, re-printed in The Lawless West ,[http://books.google.com/books?id=o0brOTCrQ5oC] Dorchester Publishing (2007), ISBN 0843957875, page 12,
As a noun abort
is restroom, loo, toilet.As a preposition aboot is
.abort
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Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) abortus, perfect active participle of .Noun
(en noun)- In Japonia 'tis a common thing to stifle their children if they be poor, or to make an abort , which Aristotle commends.
- We've had aborts on three of our last seven launches.
- We've had three aborts over the last two days.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) abortare, from abortus, from .Verb
(en verb)Derived terms
* abortable * abortee * aborter * abortifacient * abortion * abortive * abortment * abortorium * abortusSee also
* abend * exceptionReferences
* * JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms *Anagrams
* English ergative verbs ----aboot
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Preposition
(English prepositions)R. Smith (1708), [http://books.google.com/books?id=sb04AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA65&dq=%22aboot%22 page 65,
- The one is, why, notwith?tanding the narrowe?t part of the Sea between Guinea'' and ''Brazile'' be aboot five hundred Leagues over, yet Ships bound to the Southward, ?ometimes, e?pecially in the Months of ''July'' and ''August , find a great difficulty to pa?s it.
- Maister Fothergill West and the meenister say that I maun tell all I can aboot' General Heatherstone and his hoose, but that I maunna say muckle ' aboot mysel'.
- “Heah he reads in a Kansas City paper aboot a schoolteacher wantin’ a job out in dry Arizonie. And he ups an’ writes her an’ gets her a-rarin’ to come. Then, when she writes an’ tells us she’s not over forty , then us quits like yellow coyotes. […]”