different between poniard vs termination

English

Alternative forms

• poignard, poinard, poynard, punierd

Etymology

Borrowed from French poignard, from poing (“fist”), from Old French, from Latin p?gnus (“fist”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pew?-.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?nj?d/, /?p?nj??d/

Noun

poniard (plural poniards)

1. (now chiefly historical) A dagger typically having a slender square or triangular blade. [from 16th c.]
   • c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, V.1:

     The sir King ha's wag'd with him six Barbary horses, / against the which he impon'd as I take it, sixe French / Rapiers and Poniards, with their assignes, as Girdle, / Hangers or so […].

   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. IV, ch. 101:

     One of the tragic authors, finding himself assaulted in the dark, had, by way of poinard, employed upon his adversary's throat a knife which lay upon the table, for the convenience of cutting cheese […] .

   • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:

     On this occasion I said nothing, but concealing his poniard in my clothes, I hasted up the mountain, determined to execute my purpose […].

Translations

Verb

poniard (third-person singular simple present poniards, present participle poniarding, simple past and past participle poniarded)

1. To stab with a poniard.
   • 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, I:

     Manfred […] would have poignarded the peasant in their arms.

Related terms

• impugn
• pugilism
• pugnacious
• repugn (repugnant)

References

• “poniard”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
• “poniard” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "poniard" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

Anagrams

• padroni, pandori, paridon, poinard

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin terminationem (accusative of terminatio).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /t?m??ne???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

termination (countable and uncountable, plural terminations)

1. The process of terminating or the state of being terminated.
2. The process of firing an employee; ending one's employment at a business for any reason.
3. An end in time; a conclusion.
4. An end in space; an edge or limit.
5. An outcome or result.
6. The last part of a word; an ending, a desinence; a suffix.
   • 1849, E. A. Andrews, A First Latin Book; Or Progressive Lessons in Reading and Writing Latin, 2nd edition, Boston, p. 52 and 69:

     1. Some adjectives of the third declension have three terminations in the nominative singular,—one for each gender; some two,—one for the masculine and feminine, the other for the neuter; and some, only one for all genders.

     1. Verbs whose terminations are alike, are said to be of the same conjugation.
     2. Latin verbs are divided into four conjugations.

7. (medicine) An induced abortion.
8. (obsolete, rare) A word, a term.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 2 Scene 1

     She speaks poniards, and every word stabs: if her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her; she would infect to the north star.

9. The ending up of a polypeptid chain.

Synonyms

• (process of terminating): discontinuation, stoppage
• (state of being termined): discontinuation
• (process of firing an employee): discharge, dismissal
• (end in time): close, conclusion, end, finale, finish, stop
• (end in space): border, edge, end, limit, lip, rim, tip
• (outcome): consequence, outcome, result, upshot
• (last part of a word): ending
• (medical): abortion, induced abortion

Antonyms

• (process of terminating or the state of being terminated): continuation

Derived terms

• extermination
• terminative
• terminative case

Related terms

• terminate

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