What's the difference between exterminate and terminator?

Exterminate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To drive out or away; to expel.
  • (v. t.) To destroy utterly; to cut off; to extirpate; to annihilate; to root out; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterminate error or vice.
  • (v. t.) To eliminate, as unknown quantities.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Nazi extermination of Jews in Lithuania (aided enthusiastically by local Lithuanians) was virtually total.
  • (2) In a recent book about the life of Rudolf Höss who was the commandant at Auschwitz, he is quoted as saying of himself that he was not a murderer, he was “just in charge of an extermination camp”.
  • (3) Almost 300 survivors of the Nazi German concentration and extermination camps at Auschwitz gather on Tuesday to mark the 70th anniversary of their liberation, in what for many will be the last such commemoration.
  • (4) Scottish Natural Heritage is exterminating them in the Outer Hebrides not because there is a plague of hedgehogs there but to protect the nests of the wading birds whose eggs and chicks a few escaped pet hedgehogs having been eating.
  • (5) "We have no reason to hope now that the Serbs will go through catharsis and acknowledge that the non-Serbs in Prijedor had been killed, tortured, exterminated, raped."
  • (6) Reinfestation from within or outside the project area must also be taken into account.These and other aspects are discussed in relation to experience gained from a successful extermination project carried out in the Sudan vegetation zone and from present control activities in the Northern Guinea vegetation zone.
  • (7) Ingestion of an improperly stored liquid pesticide was the most common route of intoxication (76% of patients); five (14%) children became intoxicated after playing on carpets and floors of homes that had been sprayed or fogged by unlicensed exterminators.
  • (8) Prosecutors have concentrated the charge on the period between May and July 1944, the time of the mass deportation of Hungary’s Jewish community to Auschwitz when 137 trains brought 425,000 people to Auschwitz, of whom at least 300,000 were exterminated.
  • (9) (When a nest was discovered in Gloucestershire last year, the government quickly moved to exterminate it.
  • (10) Trapper moving 30,000 bees from South Austin oak tree What happened: When bees become disruptive in cities, local governments are favoring the relocation of bees over extermination.
  • (11) As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.
  • (12) Their imaginations are populated with superheroes, evil geniuses, mutant animals and androids that exterminate anyone who mentions homework.
  • (13) The consequences of continued increase of greenhouse gases extend far beyond extermination of species and future sea level rise.
  • (14) There are reasonable grounds to believe that the conduct described amounts to extermination as a crime against humanity.” Tens of thousands of detainees are held by President Bashar al-Assad’s government at any one time, and thousands more have “disappeared” after being arrested by state forces or gone missing after abduction by armed groups, the report said.
  • (15) The 56-page indictment said he prepared lists of Tutsis to be "exterminated", referring to them as "cockroaches" – a term notoriously used by those behind the genocide.
  • (16) Grossman was a Soviet Jewish journalist who covered the battle of Stalingrad and the liberation of the Treblinka extermination camp.
  • (17) Mechanisms prohibiting such hybridization in the natural habitat may have broken down under heavy predation pressure which finally resulted in the local extermination of M. nemestrinia.
  • (18) Like Gröning, neither of them are known to have directly killed, but they were in the camp when at least 1.1 million Jewish people, as well as tens of thousands of non-Jewish Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, and Sinti and Roma, were exterminated.
  • (19) Cane toads and cats, for example, have simply exterminated small marsupials.
  • (20) Indeterminacy takes the form of alternative competitive outcomes: in some replicate cultures one species exterminates the other with a probability, say p, whereas in others, the opposing species wins with a complementary probability, 1-p.

Terminator


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, terminates.
  • (n.) The dividing line between the illuminated and the unilluminated part of the moon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The amino acid sequence deduced from the nucleotide sequence contained both amino- and carboxyl-terminal sequences.
  • (2) Treatment termination due to lack of efficacy or combined insufficient therapeutic response and toxicity proved to be influenced by the initial disease activity and by the rank order of prescription.
  • (3) We have examined the insertion of bovine 17 alpha-hydroxylase (P45017 alpha) into the endoplasmic reticulum of COS 1 cells to evaluate the functional role of its hydrophobic amino-terminal sequence and membrane insertion.
  • (4) The use of glucagon in double-contrast studies of the colon has been recommended for various reasons, one of which is to facilitate reflux of barium into the terminal ileum.
  • (5) Amino acid sequence analysis showed that both peaks had identical N-terminal sequences through the first 28 residues.
  • (6) Plasma NPY correlated better with plasma norepinephrine than with epinephrine, indicating its origin from sympathetic nerve terminals.
  • (7) As a group, the three mammalian proteins resemble bovine serum conglutinin and behave as lectins with rather broad sugar specificities directed at certain non-reducing terminal N-acetylglucosamine, mannose, glucose and fucose residues, but with subtle differences in fine specificities.
  • (8) In the caudal spinal trigeminal nucleus (Vc), the collaterals of one half of the periodontium afferent fibers terminated mainly in lamina V at the rostral and middle levels of Vc.
  • (9) The amino-terminal region of a 70 kDa mitochondrial outer membrane protein of yeast and the presequence of cytochrome c1, an inner membrane protein exposed to the intermembrane space, are thought to be responsible for localizing the proteins in their final destinations after synthesis in the cytosol.
  • (10) The mtRF-1 could translate all of the known termination codons in the rat mitochondrial genome.
  • (11) However, none of the nerve terminals making synaptic contacts with glomus cells exhibited SP-like immunoreactivity.
  • (12) The B cell epitopes included regions of transition between the more hydropathic (including the N-terminal end of the F1 and F2 protein) and hydrophilic sequences.
  • (13) Somatostatin-like immunoreactivity has been found to occur in nerve terminals and fibres of the normal human skin using immunohistochemistry.
  • (14) The seve polypeptide chains investigated had generalyy similar properties; all contained two residues per molecule of tryptophan and N-acetylserine was the common N-terminal amino acid residue.
  • (15) Urine specimens from patient REE also contained a light chain fragment that lacked the first (amino-terminal) 85 residues of the native light chain but otherwise was identical in sequence to the light chain REE.
  • (16) The presence of a few key residues in the amino-terminal alpha-helix of each ligand is sufficient to confer specificity to the interaction.
  • (17) The earliest degenerative changes were seen in sensory and motor terminals at 20-24 h after the lesion.
  • (18) The terminal half-life averaged 12 h following intravenous and 15 h after oral administration.
  • (19) A retrospective study examined the reactions to the termination of pregnancy for fetal malformation and the follow up services that were available.
  • (20) A reduction in neonatal deaths from this cause might be expected if facilities for antenatal diagnosis and termination of pregnancy were made available, although this raises grave ethical problems.