ABORT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does abort mean? 

• ABORT (noun)
  The noun ABORT has 1 sense:

1. the act of terminating a project or procedure before it is completed

  Familiarity information: ABORT used as a noun is very rare.

• ABORT (verb)
  The verb ABORT has 3 senses:

1. terminate before completion

2. cease development, die, and be aborted

3. terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion

  Familiarity information: ABORT used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABORT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of terminating a project or procedure before it is completed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

he sent a short message requesting an abort due to extreme winds in the area

Hypernyms ("abort" is a kind of...):

conclusion; ending; termination (the act of ending something)

• ABORT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they abort    ... he / she / it aborts   
Past simple: aborted   
Past participle: aborted   
-ing form: aborting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Terminate before completion

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

abort the process running on my computer

Hypernyms (to "abort" is one way to...):

end; terminate (bring to an end or halt)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

abortion (failure of a plan)

abortive (failing to accomplish an intended result)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cease development, die, and be aborted

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Context example:

an aborting fetus

Hypernyms (to "abort" is one way to...):

buy the farm; cash in one's chips; choke; conk; croak; decease; die; drop dead; exit; expire; give-up the ghost; go; kick the bucket; pass; pass away; perish; pop off; snuff it (pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 3

Meaning:

Terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "abort" is one way to...):

discharge; eject; exhaust; expel; release (eliminate (a substance))

"Abort" entails doing...:

conceive (become pregnant; undergo conception)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "abort"):

miscarry (suffer a miscarriage)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

abortion (termination of pregnancy)

 Context examples 

In addition, it associates with CSA, CSB, or both proteins at the transcriptional pause sites to facilitate the resumption of transcript elongation without aborting the associated nascent transcript by pushing the stalled RNA polymerase II either forward or backward not only from the damaged site but also from some natural transcription pause sites.

(DNA Excision Repair Protein ERCC-5, NCI Thesaurus)