Abortion vs Cancellation - What's the difference?
abortion | cancellation |
(medicine, or, dated) The cessation of pregnancy or fetal development:
# (medicine, or, dated) a miscarriage.
# (still current) an induced abortion.
# The act of inducing the cessation of pregnancy.
(dated) The immature product of an untimely birth.
A monstrosity; a misshapen person.
(figuratively) Failure of a promise or a goal.
(biology) Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed.
Any fruit or produce which is interrupted in its progress before it is matured or perfect; an idea, project, or anything that does not come to maturity.
* {{quote-book, date = 1800-09-23
, title = Letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush
, first = Thomas
, last = Jefferson
, authorlink = Thomas Jefferson
, url = http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mtj:@field(DOCID+@lit(tj090069))
, passage = The returning good sense of our country threatens abortion to their hopes, & they believe that any portion of power confided to me, will be exerted in opposition to their schemes.
}}
(chiefly, arts) Something ugly, an artistic atrocity.
* 1846 , , Pictures from Italy , [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=269656481&textreg=2&query=abortion&id=DicPict Chapter 10].
The cessation of an illness or disease at a very early stage.
An unpleasant or poorly executed idea or project.
* 1999', "foo...@my-deja.com", ''Menace is AN '''ABORTION OF A MOVIE'' (on newsgroup ''alt.fan.starwars )
* 2000 , "Jules", please dont buy beacon cd'' (on newsgroup ''alt.fan.allman-brothers )
* 2003 , David Kerekes, Headpress 24: Powered by Love (page 133)
The act, process, or result of cancelling; as, the cancellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.
(mathematics) The operation of striking out common factors, in both the dividend and divisor.
(philately) A postmark that marks a postage stamp so as to prevent its reuse.
(legal) In United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party seeks to cancel the registration of a trademark or patent.
As nouns the difference between abortion and cancellation
is that abortion is (medicine|or|dated) the cessation of pregnancy or fetal development: while cancellation is the act, process, or result of cancelling; as, the cancellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.abortion
English
(wikipedia abortion)Noun
(en noun)- Insomuch that I do honestly believe, there can be no place in the world, where such intolerable abortions , begotten of the sculptor’s chisel, are to be found in such profusion, as in Rome.
- Dickey on his own manages to turn a simple bo diddley 1-2-3-4 into an absolute abortion of a song.
- an absolute abortion of a book
