Ruminate vs Terminate - What's the difference?
ruminate | terminate |
To chew cud. (Said of ruminants.) Involves regurgitating partially digested food from the rumen.
To meditate or reflect.
To meditate or ponder over; to muse on.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
(botany) Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw.
To end, especially in an incomplete state.
* J. S. Harford
To kill.
To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.
Having a definite and clear limit or boundary; having a determinate size, shape or magnitude.
(label) Expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite.
As verbs the difference between ruminate and terminate
is that ruminate is to chew cud (said of ruminants) involves regurgitating partially digested food from the rumen while terminate is to end, especially in an incomplete state.As adjectives the difference between ruminate and terminate
is that ruminate is (botany) having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the north american papaw while terminate is terminated; limited; bounded; ended.ruminate
English
Verb
(ruminat)- A camel will ruminate just as a cow will.
- I didn't answer right away because I needed to ruminate first.
- What I know / Is ruminated , plotted, and set down.
- Mad with desire, she ruminates her sin.
Synonyms
* See also * OrDerived terms
* ruminatorSee also
* chew the cudAdjective
(-)- a ruminate endosperm