Definition of abort in English:

abort

verb əˈbɔːtəˈbɔrt

[with object]

1Carry out or undergo the abortion of (a fetus)
the decision to abort the fetus
no object many doctors assume that women who undergo testing would choose to abort
Example sentencesExamples
- Medics say the trial - in which embryos were aborted at up to nine weeks old by taking a pill at home - was supported by all the women who took part.
- Remember, too that women with disabilities also choose to have pre-natal screening and may also choose to abort a disabled fetus.
- Would it be morally permissible for her to become pregnant with the aim of aborting the embryo immediately?
- The Bill also allows the victims of rape or incest to abort the fetus till 18 weeks.
- When a couple have decided to have only one child and they abort a fetus with a severe disorder, the child they later do have can be seen as replacing the one who would have been born.
- Scientists were harvesting these stem cells from embryos left over from IVF treatments or using aborted embryos.
- Did she believe she was killing a baby each time she aborted a fetus?
- I am not planning to abort the fetus, if that is what you are asking.
- Does the couple abort the fetus and then try again?
- As they continue to fight, Mama reveals that Ruth is pregnant and thinking of aborting the fetus because of lack of money and lack of love from her husband.
- No, you capitalize on their imagination of the immoral - bring on images of unreproductive sexuality and aborted fetuses.
- Just across the way, though, in equally large letters, the advertisement above a medical clinic touted ultrasound tests, which have long been used in China to detect the sex of babies, as a prelude to aborting female fetuses.
- A suit of this kind, considered a case of ‘wrongful birth,’ assumes that the obstetrician's negligence denied the parents the option of aborting a defective fetus.
- The doctor's liability for destroying a fertilized embryo that the woman has abandoned may be very different from his liability for aborting a fertilized embryo with her consent.
- Hindu ethics also do not justify aborting a fetus because of actual or potential deformity or mental retardation, for each birth, normal or not, is revered as having a divine purpose to be understood, not manipulated.
- Most trisomy fetuses are spontaneously aborted.
- We were not able to determine the genotype of these aborted embryos.
- Since it has become possible to determine the sex of a fetus in utero, tens of thousands of female fetuses are aborted every year.
- This is not using aborted embryos, this is done by cell lines.
- The disease can cause female bison, cattle, and elk to abort their fetuses.
Synonyms
terminate, end
have an abortion
1. 1.1no object (of a pregnant woman or female animal) have a miscarriage, with loss of the fetus.
  an organism that infects sheep and can cause pregnant ewes to abort
  Example sentencesExamples
  The woman can abort anywhere, wherever she is at the time, it doesn't matter.
  Double-mutant embryos aborted at various stages of development and no double-mutant seedlings were obtained.
  If an ultrasound reveals that a fetus is female, the woman may abort.
  What, for instance, would stop Third World women being financially persuaded to become pregnant and abort to provide the cells?
  One mare aborted in 1998 and developed mastitis, and this mare has experienced premature lactation in the subsequent years.
  She wouldn't have been able to if she and her boyfriend hadn't decided to abort when she became pregnant at 19 because they were too embarrassed to buy condoms in the small town in which they lived.
  Many of these women aborted not to please themselves, but to preserve relationships: with their mothers, with their families in general, with their boyfriends.
  Some of these women could have aborted, miscarried, and given birth - or any combination of two - in the same year and ended up being counted a couple of times.
  My mother told him she would abort, but instead packed up her stuff and ran.
  Some animals, though, are never the same after - they may not thrive or gain weight well, and some pregnant animals will abort.
  But the full extent of the problem will not be known until Spring when the Brucellosis will cause pregnant cattle to abort.
  On the phone, he'd said there were any number of reasons a cow might abort - including practically no reason at all.
  Sheep are in these fields and, unfortunately, last week one aborted with the loss of two lambs.
  Picture what would have happened to the 14-year-old if she had aborted, and they had had their way.
  Also it causes pregnant Vixens to abort, which again is very painful.
  Aside from causing pregnant cows to abort, this would threaten the state's brucellosis-free status, and hence its vital livestock industry.
  When she first told me she was pregnant she didn't take my calls for ages then rang out of the blue and said she was aborting.
  He would have had another baby before my sister, but the girl aborted and didn't tell him.
  But most of all, what stood out was the fact that these women aborted to preserve relationships.
  The study authors hypothesize an explanation: the reduced availability of krill during the summer feeding season is causing pregnant mothers to abort and calves to die.
  Synonyms
  miscarry, have a miscarriage
2. 1.2Biology no object (of an embryonic organ or organism) remain undeveloped; fail to mature.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Pistils aborting prior to silique formation are indicated with arrows.
  However, in the inbred line 66% of second-ear branches aborted, and no plants had more than two mature ears.
  If endosperm cell division is halted at an early stage, kernels abort and fail to set seed.
  When the gynoecium did not abort, F1 flowers were protogynous with the stigma maturing prior to the anthers.
  Usually, there are three flowering axillary buds plus a flowering terminal bud; sometimes the terminal bud has aborted and four axillary buds have developed fruits.
2Bring to a premature end because of a problem or fault.
the flight crew aborted the take-off
Example sentencesExamples
- The take-off was aborted but 55 people died from smoke and fume inhalation.
- Johanson eventually received fuel from a British pilot whose expedition was aborted by bad weather.
- Hundreds of passengers were on board and only the quick reactions of one of the pilots, who aborted his take-off after reaching more than 115 mph, averted disaster.
- On May 22, a trial had to be aborted when the jury heard inadmissible evidence by mistake after a garda giving that evidence had failed to hear the judge's order.
- Some folks have reported dramatically lower speeds and others complained of frequent micro-outages causing downloads and other operations to be prematurely aborted.
- The major alert was sparked off after a petrol-powered generator found on board forced the pilot to abort the journey and divert to Rome.
- At any time, however, if any doubt arises the pilot can abort the drop - caution is considered an asset.
- In this way, if complications arise during or immediately after the first procedure and the second procedure must be aborted, the patient's most painful knee will have been replaced.
- He immediately notified the pilot to shut down the engine and recommended the pilot abort the sortie.
- The result was that in many cases the Argentine pilots aborted their attacks or were otherwise unsuccessful in targeting the British ships.
- Ten years ago a serious proposal was made to bring back trolleybuses to Bradford but the idea was later aborted.
- Through heroic personal effort, he gets things under control, makes a safety stop and then aborts the dive.
- The pilot aborted the landing and flew the plane back to the North Sumatra provincial capital Medan where the flight had originated.
- After checking his instruments, the pilot immediately aborted the mission and landed safely.
- If a small bird makes a dent in a plane in flight, the pilot may abort the flight and bring the aircraft back for inspection.
- The pilot had to abort take off because the BA supersonic jet had a ‘glitch’ in the computerised fuel management system which caused one of the four engines to over-accelerate.
- Otherwise, the process will not be initiated or will be aborted prematurely.
- The MyTravel pilot aborted take-off and performed an emergency stop of his Airbus A321 craft.
- Just a day earlier, an Australian transport plane took ground fire shortly after takeoff, fatally wounding an American passenger and forcing pilots to abort the flight.
- The president's aircraft was about to land at Jacksonville Naval Air Station when the control tower ordered the pilot to abort his landing.
Synonyms
halt, stop, end, call off, cut short, discontinue, terminate, arrest, suspend, check, nullify
informal scrub, axe, pull the plug on
fail, come to a halt, end, terminate, miscarry, go wrong, not succeed, fall through, break down, be frustrated, collapse, founder, come to grief, fizzle out, flop

noun əˈbɔːtəˈbɔrt

technical, informal

1An act of aborting a flight, space mission, or other enterprise.
an abort because of bad weather
Example sentencesExamples
- The situation was set up to provide conditions that might closely resemble an actual NASA emergency abort landing.
- We have specific steps to abort maneuvers and we practice aborts daily.
- Maj Berge immediately called for an abort during this critical phase of flight.
- Various low-probability emergency aborts may use the lakebeds but they are not primary abort sites.
- The cost of all of this new equipment came to a grand total of $260,000, qualifying our takeoff abort as a Class B mishap.
- We never received an affirmative response from the tower to confirm our abort.
- Two aborts, even a slow-speed abort, on a hot day can make these valves release tire pressure.
- Most takeoff and landing accidents would never have happened if the pilot had made a timely abort.
- Most of those who fall victim to these kinds of accidents have neither planned nor been mentally prepared to execute an abort.
- Statistically, one in 100 launches might result in a transoceanic abort landing.
- The contract includes a full-scale reusable system that will provide the capability to test technologies in a launch pad abort situation.
- Because of bad timing and aborts, squadrons couldn't find each other.
- How often do you have a high-speed abort anyway?
- A mission abort was a serious issue and considered unacceptable.
- A Hubble rescue mission would have to be prepared for a different orbit, different abort modes, and a different payload.
- The raid was cancelled when surrender discussions started, but the abort message did not reach the aircraft and 57 out of 100 dropped their bombs before an emergency flare signal was seen.
- We passed 100 knots and entered the high-speed abort regime.
- Prognostics capability will make it possible to replace about-to-fail parts before they fail, reducing system failures, in-flight aborts, and aircraft accidents.
- Because of the heavy ordnance load, he continued with the takeoff, instead of executing a highspeed abort.
- If an abort is attempted under such conditions, hydroplaning, which will cause severe control and braking losses, may occur at higher ground roll speeds.
1. 1.1 An aborted enterprise.
  I've wasted almost a year on an abort
  Example sentencesExamples
  He had told him to be five minutes early and if Smolensk failed to show up, that would count as an abort.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Latin aboriri 'miscarry', from ab- 'away, from' + oriri 'be born'.

Rhymes

apport, assort, athwart, aught, besought, bethought, bort, bought, brought, caught, cavort, comport, consort, contort, Cort, court, distraught, escort, exhort, export, extort, fort, fought, fraught, import, methought, misreport, mort, naught, nought, Oort, ought, outfought, port, Porte, purport, quart, rort, short, snort, sort, sought, sport, support, swart, taught, taut, thought, thwart, tort, transport, wart, wrought

Definition of abort in US English:

abort

verbəˈbɔrtəˈbôrt

[with object]

1Carry out or undergo the abortion of (a fetus).
Example sentencesExamples
- Remember, too that women with disabilities also choose to have pre-natal screening and may also choose to abort a disabled fetus.
- Does the couple abort the fetus and then try again?
- We were not able to determine the genotype of these aborted embryos.
- I am not planning to abort the fetus, if that is what you are asking.
- As they continue to fight, Mama reveals that Ruth is pregnant and thinking of aborting the fetus because of lack of money and lack of love from her husband.
- Medics say the trial - in which embryos were aborted at up to nine weeks old by taking a pill at home - was supported by all the women who took part.
- A suit of this kind, considered a case of ‘wrongful birth,’ assumes that the obstetrician's negligence denied the parents the option of aborting a defective fetus.
- Scientists were harvesting these stem cells from embryos left over from IVF treatments or using aborted embryos.
- Most trisomy fetuses are spontaneously aborted.
- No, you capitalize on their imagination of the immoral - bring on images of unreproductive sexuality and aborted fetuses.
- When a couple have decided to have only one child and they abort a fetus with a severe disorder, the child they later do have can be seen as replacing the one who would have been born.
- This is not using aborted embryos, this is done by cell lines.
- The doctor's liability for destroying a fertilized embryo that the woman has abandoned may be very different from his liability for aborting a fertilized embryo with her consent.
- Did she believe she was killing a baby each time she aborted a fetus?
- Hindu ethics also do not justify aborting a fetus because of actual or potential deformity or mental retardation, for each birth, normal or not, is revered as having a divine purpose to be understood, not manipulated.
- Just across the way, though, in equally large letters, the advertisement above a medical clinic touted ultrasound tests, which have long been used in China to detect the sex of babies, as a prelude to aborting female fetuses.
- The Bill also allows the victims of rape or incest to abort the fetus till 18 weeks.
- Since it has become possible to determine the sex of a fetus in utero, tens of thousands of female fetuses are aborted every year.
- The disease can cause female bison, cattle, and elk to abort their fetuses.
- Would it be morally permissible for her to become pregnant with the aim of aborting the embryo immediately?
Synonyms
terminate, end
1. 1.1no object (of a pregnant woman or female animal) have a miscarriage, with loss of the fetus.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The woman can abort anywhere, wherever she is at the time, it doesn't matter.
  Sheep are in these fields and, unfortunately, last week one aborted with the loss of two lambs.
  On the phone, he'd said there were any number of reasons a cow might abort - including practically no reason at all.
  Also it causes pregnant Vixens to abort, which again is very painful.
  He would have had another baby before my sister, but the girl aborted and didn't tell him.
  What, for instance, would stop Third World women being financially persuaded to become pregnant and abort to provide the cells?
  She wouldn't have been able to if she and her boyfriend hadn't decided to abort when she became pregnant at 19 because they were too embarrassed to buy condoms in the small town in which they lived.
  Many of these women aborted not to please themselves, but to preserve relationships: with their mothers, with their families in general, with their boyfriends.
  My mother told him she would abort, but instead packed up her stuff and ran.
  Aside from causing pregnant cows to abort, this would threaten the state's brucellosis-free status, and hence its vital livestock industry.
  One mare aborted in 1998 and developed mastitis, and this mare has experienced premature lactation in the subsequent years.
  Some animals, though, are never the same after - they may not thrive or gain weight well, and some pregnant animals will abort.
  When she first told me she was pregnant she didn't take my calls for ages then rang out of the blue and said she was aborting.
  But most of all, what stood out was the fact that these women aborted to preserve relationships.
  Some of these women could have aborted, miscarried, and given birth - or any combination of two - in the same year and ended up being counted a couple of times.
  But the full extent of the problem will not be known until Spring when the Brucellosis will cause pregnant cattle to abort.
  Double-mutant embryos aborted at various stages of development and no double-mutant seedlings were obtained.
  Picture what would have happened to the 14-year-old if she had aborted, and they had had their way.
  The study authors hypothesize an explanation: the reduced availability of krill during the summer feeding season is causing pregnant mothers to abort and calves to die.
  If an ultrasound reveals that a fetus is female, the woman may abort.
  Synonyms
  miscarry, have a miscarriage
2. 1.2Biology no object (of an embryonic organ or organism) remain undeveloped; fail to mature.
  Example sentencesExamples
  If endosperm cell division is halted at an early stage, kernels abort and fail to set seed.
  Pistils aborting prior to silique formation are indicated with arrows.
  However, in the inbred line 66% of second-ear branches aborted, and no plants had more than two mature ears.
  Usually, there are three flowering axillary buds plus a flowering terminal bud; sometimes the terminal bud has aborted and four axillary buds have developed fruits.
  When the gynoecium did not abort, F1 flowers were protogynous with the stigma maturing prior to the anthers.
2Bring to a premature end because of a problem or fault.
the pilot aborted his landing
Example sentencesExamples
- The president's aircraft was about to land at Jacksonville Naval Air Station when the control tower ordered the pilot to abort his landing.
- After checking his instruments, the pilot immediately aborted the mission and landed safely.
- If a small bird makes a dent in a plane in flight, the pilot may abort the flight and bring the aircraft back for inspection.
- At any time, however, if any doubt arises the pilot can abort the drop - caution is considered an asset.
- Johanson eventually received fuel from a British pilot whose expedition was aborted by bad weather.
- Hundreds of passengers were on board and only the quick reactions of one of the pilots, who aborted his take-off after reaching more than 115 mph, averted disaster.
- The pilot had to abort take off because the BA supersonic jet had a ‘glitch’ in the computerised fuel management system which caused one of the four engines to over-accelerate.
- The take-off was aborted but 55 people died from smoke and fume inhalation.
- Through heroic personal effort, he gets things under control, makes a safety stop and then aborts the dive.
- The major alert was sparked off after a petrol-powered generator found on board forced the pilot to abort the journey and divert to Rome.
- The result was that in many cases the Argentine pilots aborted their attacks or were otherwise unsuccessful in targeting the British ships.
- On May 22, a trial had to be aborted when the jury heard inadmissible evidence by mistake after a garda giving that evidence had failed to hear the judge's order.
- Some folks have reported dramatically lower speeds and others complained of frequent micro-outages causing downloads and other operations to be prematurely aborted.
- Just a day earlier, an Australian transport plane took ground fire shortly after takeoff, fatally wounding an American passenger and forcing pilots to abort the flight.
- Ten years ago a serious proposal was made to bring back trolleybuses to Bradford but the idea was later aborted.
- The pilot aborted the landing and flew the plane back to the North Sumatra provincial capital Medan where the flight had originated.
- In this way, if complications arise during or immediately after the first procedure and the second procedure must be aborted, the patient's most painful knee will have been replaced.
- He immediately notified the pilot to shut down the engine and recommended the pilot abort the sortie.
- Otherwise, the process will not be initiated or will be aborted prematurely.
- The MyTravel pilot aborted take-off and performed an emergency stop of his Airbus A321 craft.
Synonyms
halt, stop, end, call off, cut short, discontinue, terminate, arrest, suspend, check, nullify
fail, come to a halt, end, terminate, miscarry, go wrong, not succeed, fall through, break down, be frustrated, collapse, founder, come to grief, fizzle out, flop

nounəˈbɔrtəˈbôrt

technical, informal

An act of aborting a flight, space mission, or other enterprise.
there was an abort because of bad weather
Example sentencesExamples
- Most takeoff and landing accidents would never have happened if the pilot had made a timely abort.
- Two aborts, even a slow-speed abort, on a hot day can make these valves release tire pressure.
- If an abort is attempted under such conditions, hydroplaning, which will cause severe control and braking losses, may occur at higher ground roll speeds.
- The cost of all of this new equipment came to a grand total of $260,000, qualifying our takeoff abort as a Class B mishap.
- Prognostics capability will make it possible to replace about-to-fail parts before they fail, reducing system failures, in-flight aborts, and aircraft accidents.
- Maj Berge immediately called for an abort during this critical phase of flight.
- We have specific steps to abort maneuvers and we practice aborts daily.
- A Hubble rescue mission would have to be prepared for a different orbit, different abort modes, and a different payload.
- The contract includes a full-scale reusable system that will provide the capability to test technologies in a launch pad abort situation.
- A mission abort was a serious issue and considered unacceptable.
- Because of the heavy ordnance load, he continued with the takeoff, instead of executing a highspeed abort.
- Various low-probability emergency aborts may use the lakebeds but they are not primary abort sites.
- Statistically, one in 100 launches might result in a transoceanic abort landing.
- We never received an affirmative response from the tower to confirm our abort.
- The situation was set up to provide conditions that might closely resemble an actual NASA emergency abort landing.
- Most of those who fall victim to these kinds of accidents have neither planned nor been mentally prepared to execute an abort.
- How often do you have a high-speed abort anyway?
- The raid was cancelled when surrender discussions started, but the abort message did not reach the aircraft and 57 out of 100 dropped their bombs before an emergency flare signal was seen.
- Because of bad timing and aborts, squadrons couldn't find each other.
- We passed 100 knots and entered the high-speed abort regime.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Latin aboriri ‘miscarry’, from ab- ‘away, from’ + oriri ‘be born’.

单词	abort
释义	Definition of abort in English: abort verb əˈbɔːtəˈbɔrt [with object] 1Carry out or undergo the abortion of (a fetus) the decision to abort the fetus no object many doctors assume that women who undergo testing would choose to abort Example sentencesExamples Medics say the trial - in which embryos were aborted at up to nine weeks old by taking a pill at home - was supported by all the women who took part. Remember, too that women with disabilities also choose to have pre-natal screening and may also choose to abort a disabled fetus. Would it be morally permissible for her to become pregnant with the aim of aborting the embryo immediately? The Bill also allows the victims of rape or incest to abort the fetus till 18 weeks. When a couple have decided to have only one child and they abort a fetus with a severe disorder, the child they later do have can be seen as replacing the one who would have been born. Scientists were harvesting these stem cells from embryos left over from IVF treatments or using aborted embryos. Did she believe she was killing a baby each time she aborted a fetus? I am not planning to abort the fetus, if that is what you are asking. Does the couple abort the fetus and then try again? As they continue to fight, Mama reveals that Ruth is pregnant and thinking of aborting the fetus because of lack of money and lack of love from her husband. No, you capitalize on their imagination of the immoral - bring on images of unreproductive sexuality and aborted fetuses. Just across the way, though, in equally large letters, the advertisement above a medical clinic touted ultrasound tests, which have long been used in China to detect the sex of babies, as a prelude to aborting female fetuses. A suit of this kind, considered a case of ‘wrongful birth,’ assumes that the obstetrician's negligence denied the parents the option of aborting a defective fetus. The doctor's liability for destroying a fertilized embryo that the woman has abandoned may be very different from his liability for aborting a fertilized embryo with her consent. Hindu ethics also do not justify aborting a fetus because of actual or potential deformity or mental retardation, for each birth, normal or not, is revered as having a divine purpose to be understood, not manipulated. Most trisomy fetuses are spontaneously aborted. We were not able to determine the genotype of these aborted embryos. Since it has become possible to determine the sex of a fetus in utero, tens of thousands of female fetuses are aborted every year. This is not using aborted embryos, this is done by cell lines. The disease can cause female bison, cattle, and elk to abort their fetuses. Synonyms terminate, end have an abortion 1.1no object (of a pregnant woman or female animal) have a miscarriage, with loss of the fetus. an organism that infects sheep and can cause pregnant ewes to abort Example sentencesExamples The woman can abort anywhere, wherever she is at the time, it doesn't matter. Double-mutant embryos aborted at various stages of development and no double-mutant seedlings were obtained. If an ultrasound reveals that a fetus is female, the woman may abort. What, for instance, would stop Third World women being financially persuaded to become pregnant and abort to provide the cells? One mare aborted in 1998 and developed mastitis, and this mare has experienced premature lactation in the subsequent years. She wouldn't have been able to if she and her boyfriend hadn't decided to abort when she became pregnant at 19 because they were too embarrassed to buy condoms in the small town in which they lived. Many of these women aborted not to please themselves, but to preserve relationships: with their mothers, with their families in general, with their boyfriends. Some of these women could have aborted, miscarried, and given birth - or any combination of two - in the same year and ended up being counted a couple of times. My mother told him she would abort, but instead packed up her stuff and ran. Some animals, though, are never the same after - they may not thrive or gain weight well, and some pregnant animals will abort. But the full extent of the problem will not be known until Spring when the Brucellosis will cause pregnant cattle to abort. On the phone, he'd said there were any number of reasons a cow might abort - including practically no reason at all. Sheep are in these fields and, unfortunately, last week one aborted with the loss of two lambs. Picture what would have happened to the 14-year-old if she had aborted, and they had had their way. Also it causes pregnant Vixens to abort, which again is very painful. Aside from causing pregnant cows to abort, this would threaten the state's brucellosis-free status, and hence its vital livestock industry. When she first told me she was pregnant she didn't take my calls for ages then rang out of the blue and said she was aborting. He would have had another baby before my sister, but the girl aborted and didn't tell him. But most of all, what stood out was the fact that these women aborted to preserve relationships. The study authors hypothesize an explanation: the reduced availability of krill during the summer feeding season is causing pregnant mothers to abort and calves to die. Synonyms miscarry, have a miscarriage 1.2Biology no object (of an embryonic organ or organism) remain undeveloped; fail to mature. Example sentencesExamples Pistils aborting prior to silique formation are indicated with arrows. However, in the inbred line 66% of second-ear branches aborted, and no plants had more than two mature ears. If endosperm cell division is halted at an early stage, kernels abort and fail to set seed. When the gynoecium did not abort, F1 flowers were protogynous with the stigma maturing prior to the anthers. Usually, there are three flowering axillary buds plus a flowering terminal bud; sometimes the terminal bud has aborted and four axillary buds have developed fruits. 2Bring to a premature end because of a problem or fault. the flight crew aborted the take-off Example sentencesExamples The take-off was aborted but 55 people died from smoke and fume inhalation. Johanson eventually received fuel from a British pilot whose expedition was aborted by bad weather. Hundreds of passengers were on board and only the quick reactions of one of the pilots, who aborted his take-off after reaching more than 115 mph, averted disaster. On May 22, a trial had to be aborted when the jury heard inadmissible evidence by mistake after a garda giving that evidence had failed to hear the judge's order. Some folks have reported dramatically lower speeds and others complained of frequent micro-outages causing downloads and other operations to be prematurely aborted. The major alert was sparked off after a petrol-powered generator found on board forced the pilot to abort the journey and divert to Rome. At any time, however, if any doubt arises the pilot can abort the drop - caution is considered an asset. In this way, if complications arise during or immediately after the first procedure and the second procedure must be aborted, the patient's most painful knee will have been replaced. He immediately notified the pilot to shut down the engine and recommended the pilot abort the sortie. The result was that in many cases the Argentine pilots aborted their attacks or were otherwise unsuccessful in targeting the British ships. Ten years ago a serious proposal was made to bring back trolleybuses to Bradford but the idea was later aborted. Through heroic personal effort, he gets things under control, makes a safety stop and then aborts the dive. The pilot aborted the landing and flew the plane back to the North Sumatra provincial capital Medan where the flight had originated. After checking his instruments, the pilot immediately aborted the mission and landed safely. If a small bird makes a dent in a plane in flight, the pilot may abort the flight and bring the aircraft back for inspection. The pilot had to abort take off because the BA supersonic jet had a ‘glitch’ in the computerised fuel management system which caused one of the four engines to over-accelerate. Otherwise, the process will not be initiated or will be aborted prematurely. The MyTravel pilot aborted take-off and performed an emergency stop of his Airbus A321 craft. Just a day earlier, an Australian transport plane took ground fire shortly after takeoff, fatally wounding an American passenger and forcing pilots to abort the flight. The president's aircraft was about to land at Jacksonville Naval Air Station when the control tower ordered the pilot to abort his landing. Synonyms halt, stop, end, call off, cut short, discontinue, terminate, arrest, suspend, check, nullify informal scrub, axe, pull the plug on fail, come to a halt, end, terminate, miscarry, go wrong, not succeed, fall through, break down, be frustrated, collapse, founder, come to grief, fizzle out, flop noun əˈbɔːtəˈbɔrt technical, informal 1An act of aborting a flight, space mission, or other enterprise. an abort because of bad weather Example sentencesExamples The situation was set up to provide conditions that might closely resemble an actual NASA emergency abort landing. We have specific steps to abort maneuvers and we practice aborts daily. Maj Berge immediately called for an abort during this critical phase of flight. Various low-probability emergency aborts may use the lakebeds but they are not primary abort sites. The cost of all of this new equipment came to a grand total of $260,000, qualifying our takeoff abort as a Class B mishap. We never received an affirmative response from the tower to confirm our abort. Two aborts, even a slow-speed abort, on a hot day can make these valves release tire pressure. Most takeoff and landing accidents would never have happened if the pilot had made a timely abort. Most of those who fall victim to these kinds of accidents have neither planned nor been mentally prepared to execute an abort. Statistically, one in 100 launches might result in a transoceanic abort landing. The contract includes a full-scale reusable system that will provide the capability to test technologies in a launch pad abort situation. Because of bad timing and aborts, squadrons couldn't find each other. How often do you have a high-speed abort anyway? A mission abort was a serious issue and considered unacceptable. A Hubble rescue mission would have to be prepared for a different orbit, different abort modes, and a different payload. The raid was cancelled when surrender discussions started, but the abort message did not reach the aircraft and 57 out of 100 dropped their bombs before an emergency flare signal was seen. We passed 100 knots and entered the high-speed abort regime. Prognostics capability will make it possible to replace about-to-fail parts before they fail, reducing system failures, in-flight aborts, and aircraft accidents. Because of the heavy ordnance load, he continued with the takeoff, instead of executing a highspeed abort. If an abort is attempted under such conditions, hydroplaning, which will cause severe control and braking losses, may occur at higher ground roll speeds. 1.1 An aborted enterprise. I've wasted almost a year on an abort Example sentencesExamples He had told him to be five minutes early and if Smolensk failed to show up, that would count as an abort. Origin Mid 16th century: from Latin aboriri 'miscarry', from ab- 'away, from' + oriri 'be born'. Rhymes apport, assort, athwart, aught, besought, bethought, bort, bought, brought, caught, cavort, comport, consort, contort, Cort, court, distraught, escort, exhort, export, extort, fort, fought, fraught, import, methought, misreport, mort, naught, nought, Oort, ought, outfought, port, Porte, purport, quart, rort, short, snort, sort, sought, sport, support, swart, taught, taut, thought, thwart, tort, transport, wart, wrought Definition of abort in US English: abort verbəˈbɔrtəˈbôrt [with object] 1Carry out or undergo the abortion of (a fetus). Example sentencesExamples Remember, too that women with disabilities also choose to have pre-natal screening and may also choose to abort a disabled fetus. Does the couple abort the fetus and then try again? We were not able to determine the genotype of these aborted embryos. I am not planning to abort the fetus, if that is what you are asking. As they continue to fight, Mama reveals that Ruth is pregnant and thinking of aborting the fetus because of lack of money and lack of love from her husband. Medics say the trial - in which embryos were aborted at up to nine weeks old by taking a pill at home - was supported by all the women who took part. A suit of this kind, considered a case of ‘wrongful birth,’ assumes that the obstetrician's negligence denied the parents the option of aborting a defective fetus. Scientists were harvesting these stem cells from embryos left over from IVF treatments or using aborted embryos. Most trisomy fetuses are spontaneously aborted. No, you capitalize on their imagination of the immoral - bring on images of unreproductive sexuality and aborted fetuses. When a couple have decided to have only one child and they abort a fetus with a severe disorder, the child they later do have can be seen as replacing the one who would have been born. This is not using aborted embryos, this is done by cell lines. The doctor's liability for destroying a fertilized embryo that the woman has abandoned may be very different from his liability for aborting a fertilized embryo with her consent. Did she believe she was killing a baby each time she aborted a fetus? Hindu ethics also do not justify aborting a fetus because of actual or potential deformity or mental retardation, for each birth, normal or not, is revered as having a divine purpose to be understood, not manipulated. Just across the way, though, in equally large letters, the advertisement above a medical clinic touted ultrasound tests, which have long been used in China to detect the sex of babies, as a prelude to aborting female fetuses. The Bill also allows the victims of rape or incest to abort the fetus till 18 weeks. Since it has become possible to determine the sex of a fetus in utero, tens of thousands of female fetuses are aborted every year. The disease can cause female bison, cattle, and elk to abort their fetuses. Would it be morally permissible for her to become pregnant with the aim of aborting the embryo immediately? Synonyms terminate, end 1.1no object (of a pregnant woman or female animal) have a miscarriage, with loss of the fetus. Example sentencesExamples The woman can abort anywhere, wherever she is at the time, it doesn't matter. Sheep are in these fields and, unfortunately, last week one aborted with the loss of two lambs. On the phone, he'd said there were any number of reasons a cow might abort - including practically no reason at all. Also it causes pregnant Vixens to abort, which again is very painful. He would have had another baby before my sister, but the girl aborted and didn't tell him. What, for instance, would stop Third World women being financially persuaded to become pregnant and abort to provide the cells? She wouldn't have been able to if she and her boyfriend hadn't decided to abort when she became pregnant at 19 because they were too embarrassed to buy condoms in the small town in which they lived. Many of these women aborted not to please themselves, but to preserve relationships: with their mothers, with their families in general, with their boyfriends. My mother told him she would abort, but instead packed up her stuff and ran. Aside from causing pregnant cows to abort, this would threaten the state's brucellosis-free status, and hence its vital livestock industry. One mare aborted in 1998 and developed mastitis, and this mare has experienced premature lactation in the subsequent years. Some animals, though, are never the same after - they may not thrive or gain weight well, and some pregnant animals will abort. When she first told me she was pregnant she didn't take my calls for ages then rang out of the blue and said she was aborting. But most of all, what stood out was the fact that these women aborted to preserve relationships. Some of these women could have aborted, miscarried, and given birth - or any combination of two - in the same year and ended up being counted a couple of times. But the full extent of the problem will not be known until Spring when the Brucellosis will cause pregnant cattle to abort. Double-mutant embryos aborted at various stages of development and no double-mutant seedlings were obtained. Picture what would have happened to the 14-year-old if she had aborted, and they had had their way. The study authors hypothesize an explanation: the reduced availability of krill during the summer feeding season is causing pregnant mothers to abort and calves to die. If an ultrasound reveals that a fetus is female, the woman may abort. Synonyms miscarry, have a miscarriage 1.2Biology no object (of an embryonic organ or organism) remain undeveloped; fail to mature. Example sentencesExamples If endosperm cell division is halted at an early stage, kernels abort and fail to set seed. Pistils aborting prior to silique formation are indicated with arrows. However, in the inbred line 66% of second-ear branches aborted, and no plants had more than two mature ears. Usually, there are three flowering axillary buds plus a flowering terminal bud; sometimes the terminal bud has aborted and four axillary buds have developed fruits. When the gynoecium did not abort, F1 flowers were protogynous with the stigma maturing prior to the anthers. 2Bring to a premature end because of a problem or fault. the pilot aborted his landing Example sentencesExamples The president's aircraft was about to land at Jacksonville Naval Air Station when the control tower ordered the pilot to abort his landing. After checking his instruments, the pilot immediately aborted the mission and landed safely. If a small bird makes a dent in a plane in flight, the pilot may abort the flight and bring the aircraft back for inspection. At any time, however, if any doubt arises the pilot can abort the drop - caution is considered an asset. Johanson eventually received fuel from a British pilot whose expedition was aborted by bad weather. Hundreds of passengers were on board and only the quick reactions of one of the pilots, who aborted his take-off after reaching more than 115 mph, averted disaster. The pilot had to abort take off because the BA supersonic jet had a ‘glitch’ in the computerised fuel management system which caused one of the four engines to over-accelerate. The take-off was aborted but 55 people died from smoke and fume inhalation. Through heroic personal effort, he gets things under control, makes a safety stop and then aborts the dive. The major alert was sparked off after a petrol-powered generator found on board forced the pilot to abort the journey and divert to Rome. The result was that in many cases the Argentine pilots aborted their attacks or were otherwise unsuccessful in targeting the British ships. On May 22, a trial had to be aborted when the jury heard inadmissible evidence by mistake after a garda giving that evidence had failed to hear the judge's order. Some folks have reported dramatically lower speeds and others complained of frequent micro-outages causing downloads and other operations to be prematurely aborted. Just a day earlier, an Australian transport plane took ground fire shortly after takeoff, fatally wounding an American passenger and forcing pilots to abort the flight. Ten years ago a serious proposal was made to bring back trolleybuses to Bradford but the idea was later aborted. The pilot aborted the landing and flew the plane back to the North Sumatra provincial capital Medan where the flight had originated. In this way, if complications arise during or immediately after the first procedure and the second procedure must be aborted, the patient's most painful knee will have been replaced. He immediately notified the pilot to shut down the engine and recommended the pilot abort the sortie. Otherwise, the process will not be initiated or will be aborted prematurely. The MyTravel pilot aborted take-off and performed an emergency stop of his Airbus A321 craft. Synonyms halt, stop, end, call off, cut short, discontinue, terminate, arrest, suspend, check, nullify fail, come to a halt, end, terminate, miscarry, go wrong, not succeed, fall through, break down, be frustrated, collapse, founder, come to grief, fizzle out, flop nounəˈbɔrtəˈbôrt technical, informal An act of aborting a flight, space mission, or other enterprise. there was an abort because of bad weather Example sentencesExamples Most takeoff and landing accidents would never have happened if the pilot had made a timely abort. Two aborts, even a slow-speed abort, on a hot day can make these valves release tire pressure. If an abort is attempted under such conditions, hydroplaning, which will cause severe control and braking losses, may occur at higher ground roll speeds. The cost of all of this new equipment came to a grand total of $260,000, qualifying our takeoff abort as a Class B mishap. Prognostics capability will make it possible to replace about-to-fail parts before they fail, reducing system failures, in-flight aborts, and aircraft accidents. Maj Berge immediately called for an abort during this critical phase of flight. We have specific steps to abort maneuvers and we practice aborts daily. A Hubble rescue mission would have to be prepared for a different orbit, different abort modes, and a different payload. The contract includes a full-scale reusable system that will provide the capability to test technologies in a launch pad abort situation. A mission abort was a serious issue and considered unacceptable. Because of the heavy ordnance load, he continued with the takeoff, instead of executing a highspeed abort. Various low-probability emergency aborts may use the lakebeds but they are not primary abort sites. Statistically, one in 100 launches might result in a transoceanic abort landing. We never received an affirmative response from the tower to confirm our abort. The situation was set up to provide conditions that might closely resemble an actual NASA emergency abort landing. Most of those who fall victim to these kinds of accidents have neither planned nor been mentally prepared to execute an abort. How often do you have a high-speed abort anyway? The raid was cancelled when surrender discussions started, but the abort message did not reach the aircraft and 57 out of 100 dropped their bombs before an emergency flare signal was seen. Because of bad timing and aborts, squadrons couldn't find each other. We passed 100 knots and entered the high-speed abort regime. Origin Mid 16th century: from Latin aboriri ‘miscarry’, from ab- ‘away, from’ + oriri ‘be born’.
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