terminate
part of speech
verb (terminate, terminates, terminated, terminating)
meaning for a pupil
1) (formal) To terminate means to end something or to come to an end: "the contract was terminated". tree →
2) A train or bus that terminates at a place stops there and goes no further. tree →
3) (formal) To terminate someone's job means to end it; it is a stiff way of saying they were sacked. tree →
4) In maths, a terminating decimal is one that stops, like 0.25, rather than going on for ever. tree →
sense in the lessons
In school maths, a terminating decimal has a last digit (1/4 = 0.25), while 1/3 = 0.333… does not terminate. In everyday life you hear "this train terminates here, all change". In exam and office language terminate is the formal word for end or stop. Phrases: terminate a contract, terminate a call, terminating decimal, terminates at.
examples
- This train terminates at the next station. tree →
- The game will terminate if you press the red button. tree →
- One quarter is 0.25, a terminating decimal. tree →
- One third is 0.333..., which never terminates. tree →
- His contract was terminated after a year. tree →
- The path terminates at the edge of the cliff. tree →
- The company terminated her employment without notice. tree →
- They were walking and driving here and there from the sea to the land at the, spot where the river terminates. tree →
note
Past form: terminated. Formal; in everyday speech people say "end" or "stop". Noun: termination; a terminal is a place where buses, trains or planes end their trips (or a computer screen). "The Terminator" in films is a killing robot, not the normal meaning.
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «terminate» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.