different between promotor vs terminator

English

Etymology

promote +? -or

Noun

promotor (plural promotors)

1. (academia) A full professor of a Dutch, Flanders, South African, or German university who acts as the principal supervisor of a student's doctoral research.
2. (chemistry) A material that accelerates the action of a catalyst.

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin promotor.

Adjective

promotor (feminine promotora, masculine plural promotors, feminine plural promotores)

1. promoting

Noun

promotor m (plural promotors, feminine promotora)

1. promoter
2. prosecutor
3. promotor

Related terms

• promoure

Further reading

• “promotor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “promotor” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “promotor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “promotor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch promotor, from Latin promotor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pro?mot?r]
• Hyphenation: pro?mo?tor

Noun

promotor (first-person possessive promotorku, second-person possessive promotormu, third-person possessive promotornya)

1. promotor: a full professor of a Dutch, Flanders, South African, or German university who acts as the principal supervisor of a student's doctoral research.
2. promoter: one who promotes, particularly with respect to entertainment events or goods.

Derived terms

Further reading

• “promotor” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin promotor.

Noun

promotor m (plural promotores, feminine promotora, feminine plural promotoras)

1. prosecutor

Related terms

• promover

Further reading

• “promotor” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

From French promoteur

Noun

promotor m (plural promotori)

1. promoter

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin promotor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?omo?to?/, [p?o.mo?t?o?]

Adjective

promotor (feminine promotora, masculine plural promotores, feminine plural promotoras)

1. promoting

Noun

promotor m (plural promotores)

1. promoter

Related terms

• promover

Further reading

• “promotor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

Partly from post-classical Latin terminator (5th century), from Latin termin?; partly from terminate +? -or.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t??.m?.ne?.t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?.m?.ne?.t?/
• Hyphenation: ter?mi?na?tor

Noun

terminator (plural terminators)

1. Someone who terminates or ends something, especially (in later use) an assassin or exterminator. [from 17th c.]
2. (astronomy) The line between the day side and the night side of a moon, planet or other celestial body. [from 17th c.]
   • 2015, David Wootton, The Invention of Science, Penguin 2016, p. 218:

     Harriot, looking at the moon, saw the irregular terminator, the highlights and shadows, the mountain ranges and valleys that Galileo had described – and he also convinced himself that he saw Galileo's imaginary crater.

3. (biochemistry) A DNA sequence which causes RNA transcription to cease and an mRNA transcript to break off. [from 20th c.]
4. (electronics) An electrical device that absorbs reflection at the end of a transmission line.
5. (science fiction) An intelligent android created to destroy humans (after the 1984 film The Terminator).

Synonyms

• (astronomy): grey line, separatrix (the general term for such lines)

Translations

Anagrams

• antitremor

Latin

Verb

termin?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of termin?
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of termin?

References

• terminator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• terminator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• terminator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Polish

Etymology

From termin +? -ator.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?r.m?i?na.t?r/

Noun

terminator m pers (feminine terminatorka)

1. (obsolete) apprentice

Declension

Noun

terminator m inan

1. (astronomy) terminator
2. (electronics) terminator

Declension

Further reading

• terminator in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• terminator in Polish dictionaries at PWN