Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word abort. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in abort.
Definitions and meaning of abort
abort
Pronunciation
(Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈbɔːt/
(US) IPA(key): /əˈbɔɹt/
Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Etymology 1
From Middle English, from Latinabortus, perfect active participle of aborior(“miscarry”), formed from ab + orior(“come into being”). Doublet of abortus.
Noun
abort (pluralaborts)
(military, aeronautics) An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.
(computing) The function used to abort a process.
(computing) An event in which a process is aborted.
(now rare) The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion. [First attested in the early 17th century.]
(obsolete) A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the mid 17th century.]
Descendants
→ Polish: abort
→ Portuguese: abort
Translations
Etymology 2
From Latinabortare, from abortus, from aboriri(“miscarry”), from ab-(“not”) + oriri(“come into being, arise, appear”).
Verb
abort (third-person singular simple presentaborts, present participleaborting, simple past and past participleaborted)
(intransitive, now rare outside medicine) To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]
(transitive, intransitive) To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term. [Attested since at least the 19th century.]
(transitive) To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back. [First attested in the late 16th century.]
(intransitive) To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages. [First attested in the late 16th century.]
(intransitive, biology) To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to cease organic growth before maturation; to become sterile. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]
(transitive, biology) To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]
(intransitive, military) To abandon a mission at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion. [First attested in the mid 20th century.]
(transitive, aeronautics) To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely. [First attested in the mid 20th century.]
(transitive, computing) To terminate a process prior to completion.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
(computing)abend, exception
References
“abort”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
“abort” in "Systems and software engineering—vocabulary", ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765:2010(E), 15 December 2010, →ISBN, DOI 10.1109/IEEESTD.2010.5733835
From Latinabortus(“premature delivery, abortion; miscarriage”), perfect active participle of aborior(“I disappear; miscarry, am aborted (of a baby)”), a compound from bothab-(“from, away from, off”), from Latinab(“from, away from, on, in”), from Proto-Italic*ab, from Proto-Indo-European*h₂epó(“off, away”) + and from orior(“I rise, appear, am born”), from Proto-Italic*orjōr, from Proto-Indo-European*h₃er-(“to move, stir, rise, spring”).
selvbestemt abort ― self-determined abortion (artificial abortion that a pregnant woman may require performed by the end of the 12th week of pregnancy, according to Norwegian law)