Abort vs Suspend - What's the difference?
abort | suspend |
(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.
To halt something temporarily.
* Shakespeare
* Denham
To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
To hang freely; underhang.
To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
(obsolete) To make to depend.
* Tillotson
To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.
* Bishop Sanderson
(chemistry) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
In obsolete terms the difference between abort and suspend
is that abort is a miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion while suspend is to make to depend.As a noun abort
is a miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion.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 ----suspend
English
Verb
(en verb)- The meeting was suspended for lunch.
- Suspend your indignation against my brother.
- The guard nor fights nor flies; their fate so near / At once suspends their courage and their fear.
- to suspend one's judgement or one's disbelief
- (John Locke)
- to suspend a thread of execution in a computer program
- to suspend a ball by a thread
- God hath suspended the promise of eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of life.
- to suspend''' a student from college; to '''suspend a member of a club
- Good men should not be suspended from the exercise of their ministry and deprived of their livelihood for ceremonies which are on all hands acknowledged indifferent.