Abort vs Abroad - What's the difference?
abort | abroad |
(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.
(dated) At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space.
* 1718 , , Solomon, and other Poems on several Occasions
(senseid)(dated) Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode.
* , Frederic Warne and Company (publisher, 1818), [http://books.google.com/books?id=0DgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA207&dq=abroad page 207], entry for 1650 July 7:
* 1900 , , Chapter I:
Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries.
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* (rfdate) :
(dated) Before the public at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; moving without restriction.
* (rfdate) Mark 1-45:
Not on target; astray; in error; confused; dazed.
Played elsewhere than one's home grounds; as in a sport's team.
(rare) Countries or lands abroad.
* 1929 , , widely (and variously) quoted:
* in , Volumes 3–4, page 180:
* 2001 March 13, :
* "Now abroad has entered English as a noun" - The New York Times , [http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/22/magazine/on-language-the-near-abroad.html "ON LANGUAGE; The Near Abroad"], William Safire, May 22, 1994, quoting Christian Caryl
As nouns the difference between abort and abroad
is that abort is restroom, loo, toilet while abroad is (rare) countries or lands abroad .As an adverb abroad is
(dated) at large; widely; broadly; over a wide space .As a preposition abroad is
throughout, over.abort
English
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 ----abroad
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- A tree spreads its branches abroad .
- Again: The lonely fox roams far abroad , / On ?ecret rapine bend and midnight fraud;
- to walk abroad
- I went to St. James', where another was preaching in the court abroad .
- Was it so irreconcilable, Warwick wondered, as still to peal out the curfew bell, which at nine o'clock at night had clamorously warned all negroes, slave or free, that it was unlawful for them to be abroad after that hour, under penalty of imprisonment or whipping?
- Another prince
- He went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter.
Synonyms
* overseasDerived terms
* be abroadNoun
- I hate abroad', ' abroad ’s bloody.
- I am not, however, a xenophobe: obviously, abroad has some good ideas—arranged marriages, violent revolutions and so on.
- That is not a xenophobic remark. I am a xenophiliac; I love abroad . I love foreigners. I just do not like the way that they are running the European agricultural policy.
