Terminate vs Commence - What's the difference?
terminate | commence |
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.
To begin, start.
* (William Shakespeare)
* (Oliver Goldsmith)
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, title= To begin to be, or to act as.
* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
(UK, intransitive, dated) To take a degree at a university.
* Fuller
As verbs the difference between terminate and commence
is that terminate is to end, especially in an incomplete state while commence is .As an adjective terminate
is terminated; limited; bounded; ended.terminate
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Verb
(terminat)Synonyms
* (to end incompletely) discontinue, stop, break off * (to kill) See alsoAntonyms
* (to end incompletely) continueSee also
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(en adjective)References
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* English ergative verbs ----commence
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Verb
(commenc)- Here the anthem doth commence .
- His heaven commences ere the world be past.
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- We commence judges ourselves.
- I question whether the formality of commencing was used in that age.