different between terminator vs terminate

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin termin?tus, past participle of termin? (“I set bounds to, bound, limit, end, close, terminate”), from terminus (“a bound, limit, end”); see term, terminus. Doublet of termine.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?m?ne?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t??m?ne?t/
• Hyphenation: ter?mi?nate

Verb

terminate (third-person singular simple present terminates, present participle terminating, simple past and past participle terminated)

1. (transitive or intransitive) To end, especially in an incomplete state.
   • 1857, John Scandrett Harford, The Life of Michael Angelo Buonarroti

     During this interval of calm and prosperity, he terminated two figures of slaves, destined for the tomb, in an incomparable style of art.

2. (transitive or intransitive) To set or be a limit or boundary to.
3. (transitive, euphemistic) To kill.

4. (transitive, euphemistic) To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
5. Of a mode of transport, to end its journey; or of a railway line, to reach its terminus.

Synonyms

• (to end incompletely): discontinue, stop, break off
• (to kill): See also Thesaurus:kill
• (to end the employment contract): axe, fire, sack; see also Thesaurus:lay off

Antonyms

• (to end incompletely): continue

Related terms

Translations

See also

• abort

Further reading

• terminate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• terminate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “terminate”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Adjective

terminate (comparative more terminate, superlative most terminate)

1. Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.
2. Having a definite and clear limit or boundary; having a determinate size, shape or magnitude.

3. (mathematics) Expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite.

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “terminate”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• Marinette, antimeter, intermate, tetramine, tretamine

Italian

Verb

terminate

1. second-person plural present indicative of terminare
2. second-person plural present subjunctive of terminare
3. second-person plural imperative of terminare

Verb

terminate f pl

1. feminine plural of terminato

Anagrams

• attenermi
• meritante

Latin

Verb

termin?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of termin?

References

• terminate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press