Definitions of terminate [ˈtɜr məˌneɪt]

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Definition of 'terminate'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) terminate
to bring to an end; put an end to.

2.  terminate
to occur at or form the conclusion of.

3.  terminate
to bound or limit spatially; form or be situated at the extremity of.

4.  terminate
to dismiss from a job; fire.

5. (v.i.) terminate
to end, conclude, or cease.

6.  terminate
(of a public conveyance) to end a scheduled run or flight at a certain place.

7.  terminate
to come to an end (often fol. by at, in, or with).

8.  terminate
to issue or result (usu. fol. by in).

Etymology: (1580–90; v. use of late ME terminate (adj.) limited < L terminātus, ptp. of termināre. See term, -ate¹)

Definition of 'terminate'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) end, terminate
bring to an end or halt
"She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I"

2. (verb) end, stop, finish, terminate, cease
have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
"the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"

3. (verb) end, terminate
be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
"This sad scene ended the movie"

4. (verb) displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate
terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
"The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"

Definition of 'terminate'

Webster Dictionary

1. (verb) terminate
to set a term or limit to; to form the extreme point or side of; to bound; to limit; as, to terminate a surface by a line

2. (verb) terminate
to put an end to; to make to cease; as, to terminate an effort, or a controversy

3. (verb) terminate
hence, to put the finishing touch to; to bring to completion; to perfect

4. (verb) terminate
to be limited in space by a point, line, or surface; to stop short; to end; to cease; as, the torrid zone terminates at the tropics

5. (verb) terminate
to come to a limit in time; to end; to close

Translation of 'terminate'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to bring or come to an end or limit She terminated the conversation.
Afrikaans: beëindig	Arabic: يُنْهي	Bulgarian: приключвам
Brazilian: pôr fim a	Czech: ukončit	German: beendigen
Danish: afslutte	Greek: τερματίζω, τερματίζομαι	Spanish: poner punto final, termin
Estonian: lõpetama, lõppema	Farsi: پایان دادن	Finnish: päättää
French: mettre finà	Hebrew: לְסַייֵם	Hindi: समाप्त करना या हो जाना
Croatian: prekinuti, završiti	Hungarian: befejez(ődik)	Indonesian: mengakhiri
Icelandic: enda, binda endiá	Italian: terminare	Japanese: 終わらせる
Korean: 종결시키다	Lithuanian: užbaigti	Latvian: []beigt; nobeigt; izbeigt
Malay: menamatkan	Dutch: eindigen	Norwegian: (av)slutte, ende
Polish: przerywać, ucinać	Portuguese: pôr termo a	Romanian: a (se) termina
Russian: завершать(ся)	Slovak: ukončiť	Slovenian: zaključiti
Serbian: završiti	Swedish: avsluta, upphöra	Thai: ทำให้สิ้นสุด
Turkish: bit(ir)mek, sona er(dir)m	Taiwanese: 終止，結束	Ukrainian: завершити
Urdu: ختم کرنا	Vietnamese: làm xong, kết thúc	Chinese: 终止，结束
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