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Adjourn vs Prolong - What's the difference?

adjourn | prolong | Related terms |

Adjourn is a related term of prolong.


As verbs the difference between adjourn and prolong

is that adjourn is to postpone while prolong is (label) to extend in space or length.

adjourn

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To postpone.
  • The trial was adjourned for a week.
  • To defer; to put off temporarily or indefinitely.
  • * Barrow
  • It is a common practice to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time.
  • To end or suspend an event.
  • The court will adjourn for lunch.
  • (intransitive, formal, uncommon) To move from one place to another.
  • After the dinner, we will adjourn to the bar.

    See also

    * adjournment

    prolong

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To extend in space or length.
  • (label) To lengthen in time; to extend the duration of; to draw out; to continue.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
  • , chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged . In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running. “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”}}
  • (label) To lengthen temporally; to put off to a distant time; to postpone.
  • Derived terms

    * prolongable * prolongation * prolonger * prolongment

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