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Before it was decided that I was going to be adopted, my mother was going to abort me. I was born with tangled legs; they never thought I'd be able to dance... without knowing it, as a child I overcame a lot thanks to really doting, loving parents and a great family and a hard work ethic on my part.
Lindsay Pearce

Meaning of "abort" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ABORT

From Latin abortāre, from the past participle of aborīrī to miscarry, from ab- wrongly, badly + orīrī to appear, arise, be born.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ABORT

abort  [əˈbɔːt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ABORT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Abort is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb abort in English.

WHAT DOES ABORT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of abort in the English dictionary

The first definition of abort in the dictionary is to undergo or cause to undergo the termination of pregnancy before the fetus is viable. Other definition of abort is to cause to be expelled from the womb before it is viable. Abort is also to fail to come to completion; go wrong.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO ABORT

PRESENT

Present
I abort
you abort
he/she/it aborts
we abort
you abort
they abort
Present continuous
I am aborting
you are aborting
he/she/it is aborting
we are aborting
you are aborting
they are aborting
Present perfect
I have aborted
you have aborted
he/she/it has aborted
we have aborted
you have aborted
they have aborted
Present perfect continuous
I have been aborting
you have been aborting
he/she/it has been aborting
we have been aborting
you have been aborting
they have been aborting
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I aborted
you aborted
he/she/it aborted
we aborted
you aborted
they aborted
Past continuous
I was aborting
you were aborting
he/she/it was aborting
we were aborting
you were aborting
they were aborting
Past perfect
I had aborted
you had aborted
he/she/it had aborted
we had aborted
you had aborted
they had aborted
Past perfect continuous
I had been aborting
you had been aborting
he/she/it had been aborting
we had been aborting
you had been aborting
they had been aborting
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will abort
you will abort
he/she/it will abort
we will abort
you will abort
they will abort
Future continuous
I will be aborting
you will be aborting
he/she/it will be aborting
we will be aborting
you will be aborting
they will be aborting
Future perfect
I will have aborted
you will have aborted
he/she/it will have aborted
we will have aborted
you will have aborted
they will have aborted
Future perfect continuous
I will have been aborting
you will have been aborting
he/she/it will have been aborting
we will have been aborting
you will have been aborting
they will have been aborting
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would abort
you would abort
he/she/it would abort
we would abort
you would abort
they would abort
Conditional continuous
I would be aborting
you would be aborting
he/she/it would be aborting
we would be aborting
you would be aborting
they would be aborting
Conditional perfect
I would have abort
you would have abort
he/she/it would have abort
we would have abort
you would have abort
they would have abort
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been aborting
you would have been aborting
he/she/it would have been aborting
we would have been aborting
you would have been aborting
they would have been aborting
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you abort
we let´s abort
you abort
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to abort
Past participle
aborted
Present Participle
aborting
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ABORT


airport
ˈɛəˌpɔːt
boart
bɔːt
bought
bɔːt
brought
brɔːt
caught
kɔːt
court
kɔːt
dear-bought
ˈdɪəˌbɔːt
export
ˈɛkspɔːt
fort
fɔːt
forte
fɔːt
import
ɪmˈpɔːt
ort
ɔːt
ought
ɔːt
port
pɔːt
Porte
pɔːt
report
rɪˈpɔːt
resort
rɪˈzɔːt
short
ʃɔːt
sort
sɔːt
unbought
ʌnˈbɔːt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ABORT

aboriginally
aborigine
aborne
aborning
abortee
aborter
aborticide
abortifacient
abortion
abortion clinic
abortion pill
abortional
abortionist
abortive
abortively
abortiveness
abortuaries
abortuary
abortus

WORDS THAT END LIKE ABORT

annual report
bort
comfort
cut a long story short
Dort
effort
escort
in short
means of transport
mort
Newport
passport
public transport
rapport
support
technical support
the support
tort
transport
wort

Synonyms and antonyms of abort in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ABORT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «abort» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of abort

Translation of «abort» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ABORT

Find out the translation of abort to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of abort from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «abort» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

使流产
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

abortar
570 millions of speakers

English

abort
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गर्भपात
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

إجهاض
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

прервать
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

abortar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গর্ভপাত করান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

avorter de
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Abort
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

abtreiben
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

中絶する
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

낙태하다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mbatalake
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hủy bỏ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கைவிடவோ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निरस्त करा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

iptal etmek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

interrompere una gravidanza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przerwać
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

перервати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

avorta
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ματαίωση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

staak
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

avbryta
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

abortere
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of abort

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ABORT»

The term «abort» is quite widely used and occupies the 30.844 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ABORT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about abort

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2 QUOTES WITH «ABORT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word abort.
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Lindsay Pearce
Before it was decided that I was going to be adopted, my mother was going to abort me. I was born with tangled legs; they never thought I'd be able to dance... without knowing it, as a child I overcame a lot thanks to really doting, loving parents and a great family and a hard work ethic on my part.
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William Stone
Cave divers, of course, deal with an elevated level of risk, and the most that I can say here is that we tend to conduct our work at the bottom of a deep cave on an extremely conservative basis with heavy levels of backup equipment and a policy to abort if any single person doesn't like the situation underwater at any time during the mission.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ABORT»

Discover the use of abort in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to abort and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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13th Gen: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?
A collection of commentaries, quotations, computer dumps, and cartoons explores the post-baby-boom generation's growing influence on American culture
Neil Howe, William Strauss, 1993
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Collision Avoidance for Aircraft in Abort Landing
1-3 of this thesis (abort landing) with Figs. 1-3 of Ref. 45 (takeoff) leads to the following conclusion: e note that although the takeoff scenario and the abort landing scenario are quite different from one another, the same guidance concepts can ...
Jarret Mathwig, 2009
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Developments in Telecommunications: With a Focus on SS7 ...
7.2.2.3 Association Termination The SCTP provides for two ways to close an active association: a graceful termination through a shutdown or an ungraceful termination through an abort. Abort of an Association An abort may be requested from ...
Gerhard Rufa, 2009
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Compiling Esterel
B.4.2 abort: Strong Preemption abort: abort statement when delay-expr abort statement when abort-instance end-abort abort statement when abort-case-list end-abort abort-instance: delay-expr delay-expr do statement end-abort: end abort opt ...
Dumitru Potop-Butucaru, Stephen A. Edwards, Gerard Berry, 2007
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High Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers: ...
2Steal-on-Abort. In most TM implementations, aborted transactions are immediately restarted. However, we observed that the restarted transaction may conflict with the same opponent transaction again, leading to another abort, which we refer ...
André Seznec, Joel Emer, Michael O'Boyle, 2009
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Computer Networks and Open Systems: An Application ...
A-ABORT may be issued by either participant in the association. When one side issues an A-ABORT.request, an A-ABORT.indication is delivered to the peer application entity. There is no response issued, all record of the association is ...
Lillian N. Cassel, Richard H. Austing, 2000
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PCI System Architecture
Description If a target detects a fatal error or will never be able to respond to the transaction for some other reason, it may signal a Target Abort. It can occur in the first or any other data phase of the transaction. This instructs the initiator to end ...
Don Anderson, Tom Shanley, 1999
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Ada 2005 Reference Manual. Language and Standard Libraries: ...
Example of a time-limited calculation: select 13 delay 5.0; Put_Line("Calculation does not converge"); then abort -- This calculation should finish in 5.0 seconds; -- if not, it is assumed to diverge. Horribly_Complicated_Recursive_Function(X, Y) ...
S. Tucker Taft, 2006
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The Correctness-by-Construction Approach to Programming
2.3.2.7 The Meaning of abort Recall, that we arrived at the conclusion that wp.S; true/ represents the set of states guaranteeing the termination of S, based on the assumption that S is one of the “normal” computer commands in common use.
Derrick G. Kourie, Bruce W. Watson, 2012
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Soyuz: A Universal Spacecraft
Titov later recalled that he attempted to record his observations of the performance of the spacecraft from data on the instrument panel during the fully automated abort, but that the flight was so short, and imparted such high g, that he was ...
Rex Hall, David Shayler, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ABORT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term abort is used in the context of the following news items.
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SpaceX to Test Abort Function of Dragon Capsule
SpaceX is going to test its in-flight abort capsule at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. This will involve fitting a Dragon capsule on ... «Clapway, Jul 15»
2
Authorities abort attempt to smuggle 200000 narcotic pills inside car …
AMMAN — Authorities on Sunday seized a large quantity of narcotic pills that were destined for a neighbouring country, according to a security ... «Jordan Times, Jul 15»
3
More Fidelity for SpaceX In-Flight Abort Reduces Risk
Following the successful pad abort test in May, SpaceX began developing a plan that would move its in-flight abort test to provide higher fidelity ... «Space Daily, Jul 15»
4
'How much would you pay to stop an abortion?' Woman will abort
'How much would you pay to stop an abortion?' Woman will abort within 72 hours if pro-lifers don't send $1 million. July 3, 2015 | Carmine Sabia | 3 comments. «BizPac Review, Jul 15»
5
Save polar bears, murderers, but abort fetuses
Pope Francis is presented with a cake during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday. Pope Francis is ... «Quad-Cities Online, Jul 15»
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Woman Demands $1 Million or She Will Abort Her 7-Week-Old …
A 26-year-old woman who wants to remain anonymous has shared online that she is seven-weeks-pregnant and plans to have an abortion on ... «LifeNews.com, Jul 15»
7
Doctors Told Mom Her Son Would Die So She Should Just Abort
At 17, Kayleigh Douglas discovered she was pregnant and had been advised to abort her unborn son because, according to doctors, he had ... «LifeNews.com, Jul 15»
8
SpaceX moves launch of Dragon abort test to KSC
Local 6 News partner Florida Today says the second test of a Dragon capsule's launch abort system now will lift off from KSC's historic pad 39A ... «WKMG Orlando, Jul 15»
9
Why did Pence abort RFRA-related PR contract?
Indiana's economic development agency has unexpectedly canceled a $750,000 public relations contract with a global PR firm that was ... «Indianapolis Star, Jul 15»
10
Grattan on Friday: Abbott will look tricky if he tries to abort the same …
Michelle Grattan does not work for, consult to, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this ... «The Conversation AU, Jul 15»

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