different between abscission vs abscind

English

Etymology

From Latin abscissi?, from abscind? (“I cut, I tear”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /æb?s?.?n?/, /æb?s?.?n?/

Noun

abscission (countable and uncountable, plural abscissions)

1. The act or process of cutting off.
   • 1673, Jeremy Taylor, Heniaytos: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year […]

     Not to be cured without the abscission of a member.

2. (obsolete) The state of being cut off. [Attested only in the mid 17^th century.]
3. (rhetoric) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly
4. (botany) The natural separation of a part at a predetermined location, such as a leaf at the base of the petiole. [First attested in the late 19^th century.]

Usage notes

Not to be confused with abscision, which only is defined as the first sense.

Related terms

• abscise
• abscisic
• abscisic acid
• abscisin, abscissin

Translations

Anagrams

• abscisions

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ap.si.sj??/

Noun

abscission f (plural abscissions)

1. (botany) abscission

Further reading

• “abscission” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Latin abscindere, present active infinitive of abscind? (“cut off”), from ab (“from, away from”) + scind? (“cut, rend”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?b?s?nd/, /æb?s?nd/

Verb

abscind (third-person singular simple present abscinds, present participle abscinding, simple past and past participle abscinded)

1. (transitive, archaic) To cut off. [First attested in the early 17^th century.]
   • January 26 1751, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler No. 90

     Two syllables... abscinded from the rest.

Related terms

• rescind
• abscission
• abscissa

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