different between abort vs amort

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??b??t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??b??t/

Etymology 1

From Middle English, from Latin abortus, perfect active participle of aborior (“miscarry”), formed from ab + orior (“come into being”). Doublet of abortus.

Noun

abort (plural aborts)

1. (obsolete) A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the mid 17^th century.]
2. (now rare) The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion. [First attested in the early 17^th century.]
3. (military, aeronautics) An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.

4. (computing) The function used to abort a process.
5. (computing) An event in which a process is aborted.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin abortare, from abortus, from aboriri (“miscarry”), from ab- (“not”) + oriri (“come into being, arise, appear”).

Verb

abort (third-person singular simple present aborts, present participle aborting, simple past and past participle aborted)

1. (intransitive, now rare outside medicine) To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely. [First attested in the mid 16^th century.]
2. (transitive, intransitive) To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term. [Attested since at least the 19^th century.]
3. (transitive) To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back. [First attested in the late 16^th century.]
4. (intransitive) To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages. [First attested in the late 16^th century.]
5. (intransitive, 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. [First attested in the mid 19^th century.]
6. (transitive, biology) To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation. [First attested in the mid 19^th century.]
7. (intransitive, military) To abandon a mission at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion. [First attested in the mid 20^th century.]
8. (transitive, aeronautics) To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely. [First attested in the mid 20^th century.]
9. (transitive, computing) To terminate a process prior to completion.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• (computing) abend, exception

References

• abort in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
• “abort” in "Systems and software engineering—vocabulary", ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765:2010(E), 15 December 2010, ?ISBN, DOI 10.1109/IEEESTD.2010.5733835

Anagrams

• Barot, Barto, Bator, ORBAT, Tabor, Tobar, Torba, boart, rabot, tabor

Cebuano

Etymology

From English abort, from Latin abortare, from abortus, from aboriri (“miscarry”), from ab- (“not”) + oriri (“come into being, arise, appear”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: a?bort

Verb

abort

1. to abort; to cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Latin abortus.

Noun

abort

1. abort, abortion

Declension

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ab???t/
• Rhymes: -???t

Noun

abort c (singular definite aborten, plural indefinite aborter)

1. abortion
2. miscarriage

Inflection

Estonian

Noun

abort (genitive abordi, partitive aborti)

1. abortion

2. miscarriage

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin abortus (“premature delivery, abortion; miscarriage”), perfect active participle of aborior (“miscarry”), a compound from both ab- (“from, away from, off”), from Latin ab (“from, away from, on, in”), from Proto-Italic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European *h?epó (“off, away”) + and from orior (“I rise, appear, am born”), from Proto-Italic *orj?r, from Proto-Indo-European *h?er- (“to move, stir, rise, spring”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?b??/, /a?b??t/
• Rhymes: -??, -??t
• Hyphenation: ab?ort

Noun

abort m (definite singular aborten, indefinite plural aborter, definite plural abortene)

1. (medicine) an abortion (termination of pregnancy before the fetus is viable outside the uterus)

   Synonyms: misfødsel, fosterdrap, svangerskapsavbrytelse, svangerskapsavbrudd

2. (medicine) an abortion (abortion that occurs by itself)

   Synonym: spontanabort

3. (medicine) an abortion (termination of pregnancy induced by surgery or medication)

   Synonyms: abortus provocatus, fosterfordrivelse, utskrapning

4. (medicine, now rare) a premature foetus
5. (technology) the act of aborting

   Synonym: abortere

Derived terms

See also

• abortus (“abortion, monstrosity”)
• abortiv (“abortive”)
• abortør (“abortionist”)
• fosterreduksjon (“fetal reduction”)

References

• “abort” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “abort” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “abort” in Store medisinske leksikon

Anagrams

• abrot, borat

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin abortus

Noun

abort m (definite singular aborten, indefinite plural abortar, definite plural abortane)

1. an abortion (deliberate termination of a pregnancy)

Derived terms

• spontan abort, spontanabort

References

• “abort” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Noun

abort m (plural aborts)

1. (computing) abort (function used to abort a process)

   Synonym: abortamento

Swedish

Noun

abort c

1. (obsolete) an abort, a miscarriage
2. abort, abortion (the process of ending a pregnancy)

Declension

Related terms

• abortera
• abortiv
• abortmedel
• få abort
• göra abort

References

• abort in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (8th ed., 1923)

Anagrams

• borta, botar

Tatar

Noun

abort

1. Latin spelling of ????? (abort)

English

Etymology

From Middle French à la mort (“to the death”) reinterpreted as all amort.

Adjective

amort

1. (archaic, literary) As if dead; depressed

   Synonyms: lifeless, spiritless, dejected

   • c. 1593, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act IV, Scene 3,^[1]

     How fares my Kate? What, sweeting, all amort?

   • 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 3-5,^[2]

     How nowe fellowe Franticke, what all a mort? Doth this sadnes become thy madnes?

   • 1737, Susanna Centlivre, The Perjur’d Husband, London: W. Feales, Act IV, Scene 2, p. 56,^[3]

     What, all amort, Signior, no Courage left?

   • 1890, Francis Saltus Saltus, “The Harem” in Shadows and Ideals, Buffalo: Charles Wells Moulton, p. 338,^[4]

     Here repose houris, dreamlike fair;

     Eyes half amort by amorous care;

     Marvels of flesh, wonders of hair!

Anagrams

• Morta, Toram, morat, torma