abort vs flop

abort

verb
  • To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages. 

  • To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term. 

  • To abandon a mission at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion. 

  • To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely. 

  • To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back. 

  • To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely. 

  • 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. 

  • To terminate a process prior to completion. 

  • To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation. 

noun
  • The function used to abort a process. 

  • An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission. 

  • An event in which a process is aborted. 

flop

verb
  • To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.). 

  • To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer) 

  • To stay, sleep or live in a place. 

  • To fall heavily due to lack of energy. 

  • To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; to flap. 

  • To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop. 

  • To cause to drop heavily. 

  • To flip; to reverse (an image). 

adv
  • With a flopping sound. 

  • Right, squarely, flat-out. 

intj
  • Indicating the sound of something flopping. 

noun
  • The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game. 

  • A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop. 

  • An incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down. 

  • A flophouse. 

  • A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry. 

  • One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed. 

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