Abortion vs Termination - What's the difference?
abortion | termination |
(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 process of terminating or the state of being terminated.
The process of firing an employee; ending one's employment at a business for any reason.
An end in time; a conclusion.
An end in space; an edge or limit.
An outcome or result.
The last part of a word; a suffix.
(medical) An induced abortion.
(obsolete, rare) A word, a term.
* 1599 ,
The ending up of a polypeptid chain.
Termination is a synonym of abortion.
As nouns the difference between abortion and termination
is that abortion is the cessation of pregnancy or fetal development while termination is the process of terminating or the state of being terminated.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
Synonyms
* *Derived terms
* abortionist * abortion clinic * abortion doctor * abortion drug * abortion method * abortion on demand * abortion on request * abortion pill * abortion provider * abortion rights, abortion-rights * anti-abortion, antiabortion * anti-abortionism, anti-abortionism * anti-abortionist, antiabortionist * back alley abortion, back-alley abortion * back-street abortion, backstreet abortion * backyard abortion, back-yard abortion * contagious abortion * early abortion * elective abortion * habitual abortion * hysterotomy abortion * incomplete abortion * induced abortion * infectious abortion * late-term abortion * medical abortion * partial-birth abortion, partial birth abortion * post-abortion, postabortion * pre-abortion, preabortion * pro-abortion, proabortion * pro-abortionism, proabortionism * pro-abortionist, proabortionist * sex-selective abortion * spontaneous abortion * surgical abortion * therapeutic abortion * threatened abortion * unsafe abortion * vacuum aspiration abortionSee also
* filicide, infanticide, neonaticide, prolicideExternal links
* (wikipedia "abortion")Anagrams
*termination
English
Noun
(en noun)- She speaks poniards, and every word stabs: if her breath were as terrible as her terminations , there were no living near her; she would infect to the north star.
