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TERMINATED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of e.g. a contract or term of office) having come to an end
Classified under:
Similar:
expired (having come to an end or become void after passage of a period of time)
Domain category:
contract (a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having come or been brought to a conclusion
Example:
the abruptly terminated interview
Synonyms:
all over; complete; concluded; ended; over; terminated
Classified under:
Similar:
finished (ended or brought to an end)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb terminate
Context examples:
He is a functionary whose existence, in the natural course of things, would have terminated about two hundred years ago.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
EXAMPLE(S): active, cancelled, pending, suspended, terminated, nullified
(Experimental Unit Status Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
The gallery was terminated by folding doors, which Miss Tilney, advancing, had thrown open, and passed through, and seemed on the point of doing the same by the first door to the left, in another long reach of gallery, when the general, coming forwards, called her hastily, and, as Catherine thought, rather angrily back, demanding whether she were going?
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
As a class, carotenoids are pigment compounds found in photosynthetic organisms (plants, algae, and some types of fungus), and are chemically characterized by a large polyene chain containing 35-40 carbon atoms; some carotenoid polyene chains are terminated by two 6-carbon rings.
(Lycopene, NCI Thesaurus)
For which the astronomers (who have written large systems concerning the stone) assign the following reason: that the magnetic virtue does not extend beyond the distance of four miles, and that the mineral, which acts upon the stone in the bowels of the earth, and in the sea about six leagues distant from the shore, is not diffused through the whole globe, but terminated with the limits of the king’s dominions; and it was easy, from the great advantage of such a superior situation, for a prince to bring under his obedience whatever country lay within the attraction of that magnet.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The signal it induces is terminated in part by degradation of anandamide by anandamide hydrolase (FAAH). 2-arachidonoyl-glycerol (2-AG) and 2-arachidonoyl glyceryl ether have also been shown to bind the cannabinoid receptors, and has been suggested to be important endocannabinoids.
(Anandamide Metabolism Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
I will soon explain to what these feelings tended, but allow me now to return to the cottagers, whose story excited in me such various feelings of indignation, delight, and wonder, but which all terminated in additional love and reverence for my protectors (for so I loved, in an innocent, half-painful self-deceit, to call them).
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
You already know what she was, and how my liaison with her terminated.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
With a sudden twitch and lurch, he terminated the sheer and bore off to the right along a sort of canal, one bank of which was the bed, the other the table.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Throat she had none; waist she had none; legs she had none, worth mentioning; for though she was more than full-sized down to where her waist would have been, if she had had any, and though she terminated, as human beings generally do, in a pair of feet, she was so short that she stood at a common-sized chair as at a table, resting a bag she carried on the seat.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
