Terminate vs Abortion - What's the difference?
terminate | abortion |
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.
(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)
As a verb terminate
is to end, especially in an incomplete state.As an adjective terminate
is terminated; limited; bounded; ended.As a noun abortion is
(medicine|or|dated) the cessation of pregnancy or fetal development:.terminate
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Verb
(terminat)Synonyms
* (to end incompletely) discontinue, stop, break off * (to kill) See alsoAntonyms
* (to end incompletely) continueSee also
* abortExternal links
* *Adjective
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* English ergative verbs ----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