abortive
Definitions
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WordNet 3.6
- adj abortive failing to accomplish an intended result "an abortive revolt","a stillborn plot to assassinate the President"
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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- Abortive A fruitless effort or issue.
- Abortive A medicine to which is attributed the property of causing abortion; -- also called an abortifacient.
- Abortive (Med) Causing abortion; as, abortive medicines.
- Abortive Coming to naught; failing in its effect; miscarrying; fruitless; unsuccessful; as, an abortive attempt. "An abortive enterprise."
- Abortive (Med) Cutting short; as, abortive treatment of typhoid fever.
- Abortive (Biol) Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile; as, an abortive organ, stamen, ovule, etc.
- Abortive Made from the skin of a still-born animal; as, abortive vellum.
- Abortive Produced by abortion; born prematurely; as, an abortive child.
- Abortive Rendering fruitless or ineffectual. "Plunged in that abortive gulf."
- Abortive That which is born or brought forth prematurely; an abortion.
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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
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- abortive Brought forth in an imperfect condition; imperfectly formed or inadequately developed, as an animal or vegetable production; rudimentary.
- abortive Suppressed; kept imperfect; remaining rudimentary, or not advancing to perfection in form or function: a frequent use of the term in zoölogy. Compare vestigial.
- abortive Hence Not brought to completion or to a successful issue; failing; miscarrying; coming to nought: as, an abortive scheme.
- abortive In botany, defective; barren. A. Gray.
- abortive Producing nothing; chaotic; ineffectual.
- abortive In medicine, producing or intended to produce abortion; abortifacient: as, abortive drugs.
- abortive Deformed; monstrous.
- n abortive That which is produced prematurely; an abortion; a monstrous birth.
- n abortive A drug causing abortion; an abortifacient.
- abortive To cause to fail or miscarry.
- abortive To fail; perish; come to nought.
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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
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- adj Abortive born untimely: unsuccessful: producing nothing: brought forth in an imperfect condition: rudimentary
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Quotations
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“The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.” -
“The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.” -
“Abortion is a skillfully marketed product sold to women at a crisis time in their life. If the product is defective, she can't return it for a refund.”
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“The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.” -
“The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.” -
“Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.”
Etymology
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
L. abortivus, fr. aboriri,. See Abort (v.)
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
L. aborīri, abortus—ab, from, away, orīri, to rise.
Usage
In literature:
Even the prisoners laughed sorrowfully as each abortive boom rang out.
"The Siege of Kimberley" by T. Phelan
Of the modern bell-tower it can only be said that it is a pity necessity seemed to compel the erection of such an abortion.
"The Old Franciscan Missions Of California" by George Wharton James
The rock on which so many abortive attempts are wrecked in the effort to achieve poise is a type of sentimentality peculiar to certain natures.
"Poise: How to Attain It" by D. Starke
This may be one Reason we have so many things appear Abortive.
"A Letter to A.H. Esq.; Concerning the Stage (1698) and The Occasional Paper No. IX (1698)" by Anonymous
At times she thought of abortion, but only in a desperate way.
"The Nervous Housewife" by Abraham Myerson
And self-conscious seeking after peculiarity only stops the natural evolution and produces abortions.
"The Practice and Science Of Drawing" by Harold Speed
He did not try to solve it, but decided to leave everything to chance, since the best planned strategy was almost always abortive.
"Là-bas" by J. K. Huysmans
But the blind veneration of the clergy and people rendered this attempt abortive.
"Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, April 1875, Vol. XV., No. 88" by Various
Everything pointed to the fact that this rising was to be very different from the abortive July outbreak of 1913.
"The Fight For The Republic in China" by Bertram Lenox Putnam Weale
Women going out on the Sabbath-day are allowed, as the Rabbis teach, to carry with them a certain stone believed to counteract abortion.
"Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala" by Various
Two abortive risings in March, 1654-5, exhausted their energy.
"The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660" by David Masson
In the meantime I'd sooner have your memorial than that awful, costly abortion of Byron's.
"A Dream of the North Sea" by James Runciman
Even regarded as an early attempt in the "picaresque" manner, it is abortive and only half organised.
"The English Novel" by George Saintsbury
It was hardly more than an abortive attempt to make a synthesis of the two.
"The Inside Story Of The Peace Conference" by Emile Joseph Dillon
An equally abortive attempt to create a counterpoise to Pompey's power was made by the tribune Rullus at the close of 64 B.C.
"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4" by Various
Now, then, when all his plans for meeting the exigencies of his case had turned out abortive, suddenly a bold idea struck him.
"The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2" by Thomas de Quincey
Pedamina: the aborted fore-legs of Nymphalid butterflies.
"Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology" by John. B. Smith
Abortion is sometimes singularly frequent in particular districts, or on particular farms, appearing to assume an epizooetic or epidemic form.
"Cattle and Their Diseases" by Robert Jennings
Abortion of petals, pansy 461 217.
"Vegetable Teratology" by Maxwell T. Masters
The tension may lead to abortion, or a slow, laborious parturition may occur at the usual time.
"Special Report on Diseases of the Horse" by United States Department of Agriculture
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In poetry:
We, the children of Astarte,
Dear abortions of the moon,
In a gay and silent party,
We are riding to you soon.
Dear abortions of the moon,
In a gay and silent party,
We are riding to you soon.
"The Three Witches" by Ernest Christopher Dowson
"Yea, 'tis as if some cunning necromancer
Had drawn a circle magically round me,
Till like the wretched victim of Kehama,
(Southey's abortion)
Had drawn a circle magically round me,
Till like the wretched victim of Kehama,
(Southey's abortion)
"My Umbrella" by Martin Farquhar Tupper
I've been dead for over a millennium,
Exposed, on this cliff, to wind and rain:
Not even a ghost has a thinner frame,
And no abortion is more misshapen. . .
Exposed, on this cliff, to wind and rain:
Not even a ghost has a thinner frame,
And no abortion is more misshapen. . .
"Words Of A Certain Dead Man" by Antero Tarquinio de Quental
Abortions of their blind hyena--creed,
Who for ``protection'' of their battle--host
Against the unarmed of them they had made to bleed,
Whose hearts they had tortured to the utter--most
Who for ``protection'' of their battle--host
Against the unarmed of them they had made to bleed,
Whose hearts they had tortured to the utter--most
"Louvain To Dom Bruno Destrée, O.S.B." by Robert Laurence Binyon
There, in the happy no-time of his sleeping,
Death took him by the heart. There heaved a quaking
Of the aborted life within him leaping,
Then chest and sleepy arms once more fell slack.
Death took him by the heart. There heaved a quaking
Of the aborted life within him leaping,
Then chest and sleepy arms once more fell slack.
"Asleep" by Wilfred Owen
Spires of Grace Church,
For you the workers of the world
Travailed with the mountains…
Aborting their own dreams
Till the dream of you arose - Beautiful, swaddled in stone - Scorning their hands.
For you the workers of the world
Travailed with the mountains…
Aborting their own dreams
Till the dream of you arose - Beautiful, swaddled in stone - Scorning their hands.
"Spires" by Lola Ridge
In news:
Today, they are used to affect abortion laws.
Woman's death forces Ireland to face abortion taboo.
What if Contraception Could Decimate the Abortion Rate.
Obama campaign ad shows clip of Romney saying he'd 'be delighted ' to sign abortion ban.
An anti-abortion demonstrator passes the US Capitol as he takes part in the "March for Life" in Washington.
Abortion-Rights Advocates Pin Hopes On Defense Bill.
She evidently believes that when a woman takes the morning after pill she has aborted a child.
Taliban v Christians v. Recent anti-abortion bills have got me thinking how the Taliban has some things in common with the far-right here in America.
Michigan legislature set to vote on dilation and extraction abortion ban.
A young medical student tries to decide if she has what it takes to join the diminishing ranks of abortion providers.
Just as Mitt Romney and other Republicans had cut into the Democrats' advantage with female voters, a tea party-backed Senate candidate's awkward remark has propelled the emotional issue of abortion back to the political forefront.
A federal appeals court has struck down a controversial Montgomery County health regulation that requires anti-abortion pregnancy centers to provide a health disclaimer to patients.
They are essentially trying to impose unnecessary regulations on charities that are providing women with genuine alternatives to abortion.
The debate over late term abortions, which opponents call partial birth abortions, is no exception.
A controversial requirement that an aborted fetus be buried, cremated or interred was removed this week at the last minute from an abortion bill under consideration in Lansing.
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In science:
Suppose Eve programs the devices such that the protocol aborts unless a set of m specified bits of X1 take specific values24 .
Private Randomness Expansion With Untrusted Devices
For small m, Eve can ensure the devices behave in this way while keeping the probability of the protocol not aborting significantly above zero.
Private Randomness Expansion With Untrusted Devices
If the string X1 remained a truly a private random string, this property should persist if Bob announces whether the protocol aborted or not (see also Footnote 22).
Private Randomness Expansion With Untrusted Devices
However, there is a significant chance that the protocol will not abort, and the casino will open tonight.
Private Randomness Expansion With Untrusted Devices
Definition 8 A TM implementation M is strongly progressive if there does not exist any history H of M in which for every set Q ∈ C T rans(H ) of transactions such that |CObjH (Q)| ≤ 1, every transaction in Q is forceful ly aborted in H .
On the Cost of Concurrency in Transactional Memory
The following property guarantees that no transaction is forcefully aborted if there is a chance of to commit the transaction and preserve correctness.
On the Cost of Concurrency in Transactional Memory
Therefore, permissiveness does not allow a transaction to abort, unless committing it would violate the execution’s correctness.
On the Cost of Concurrency in Transactional Memory
If a transaction Ti is forceful ly aborted executing an operation opi , then opi is tryCi .
On the Cost of Concurrency in Transactional Memory
Since the implementation is permissive, no transaction can be forcefully aborted in E , and the only valid serialization of this execution is T3 , T2 , T1 .
On the Cost of Concurrency in Transactional Memory
Such an execution exists, since ρ is indistinguishable to T2 from an execution in which T2 is uncontended and thus T2 cannot be forcefully aborted in πs · ρ.
On the Cost of Concurrency in Transactional Memory
If this is not the case the transaction is forcefully aborted.
On the Cost of Concurrency in Transactional Memory
Clearly, if Tk is forcefully aborted, then the execution of mCAS involved no AWAR (no write to a base ob ject took place).
On the Cost of Concurrency in Transactional Memory
Moreover, no AWARs are performed in readonly or aborted transactions.
On the Cost of Concurrency in Transactional Memory
If some ob ject in the read set has been modified or is locked, the transaction is forcefully aborted.
On the Cost of Concurrency in Transactional Memory
We say that α · π t is (0, j )-valent if the read operation j does not abort and returns an ”old” value u (cid:54)= uj .
On the Cost of Concurrency in Transactional Memory
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