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English
Etymology
From Latin abductiō (“robbing; abduction”), from abdūcō (“take or lead away”), from ab (“away”) + dūcō (“to lead”). Equivalent to abduct + -ion.
Pronunciation
Noun
abduction (countable and uncountable, plural abductions)
- Leading away; a carrying away.
- (anatomy) The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; the movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.
- 2013, Jain, MD, MSPH; Wilcox, PT; Katz, MD, MS; Higgins, MD, "Clinical Examination of the Rotator Cuff", PM&R Journal, retrieved from PubMed Central on 21 Jan 2018.
- Abduction is performed by asking the patient to raise the arm at the side as high as they can with the examiner stabilizing the scapula by holding it down.
- (logic) A syllogism or form of argument in which the major premise is evident, but the minor is only probable.
2005, Ronnie Cann, Ruth Kempson, Lutz Marten, The Dynamics of Language, an Introduction, page 256:The significance of such a step is that it is not morphologically triggered: it is a step of abduction, and what is required here is a meta-level process of reasoning.
- (law) The wrongful, and usually forcible, carrying off of a human being.
the abduction of a child
- (ufology) alien abduction
2010, Monte Dwyer, Red in the Centre: Through a Crooked Lens, Monyer Pty Ltd, page 122:But fear of abduction never stopped a good ufologist.
Usage notes
Synonyms
Antonyms
replacement; restitution; restoration; surrender; reinstatement
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
leading away, carrying away
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: اِخْتِطَاف m (iḵtiṭāf)
- Armenian: հափշտակում (hy) (hapʿštakum)
- Belarusian: выкрада́нне n (vykradánnje)
- Bulgarian: отвли́чане n (otvlíčane), похище́ние (bg) n (pohišténie)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 綁架/绑架 (zh) (bǎngjià)
- Czech: únos (cs) m
- Danish: bortføring c
- Dutch: afvoering (nl) m
- Esperanto: forrabo
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: poisvienti, poistaminen (fi)
- French: enlèvement (fr) m
- Georgian: მოტაცება (moṭaceba)
- German: Entführung (de) f
- Greek: απαγωγή (el) f (apagogí)
- Hindi: अपहरण (hi) m (apahraṇ)
- Hungarian: eltérítés (hu)
- Italian: rapimento (it) m, sequestro (it) m
- Japanese: 誘拐 (ja) (ゆうかい, yūkai), 拉致 (ja) (らち, rachi)
- Korean: 유괴(誘拐) (ko) (yugoe), 납치(拉致) (ko) (napchi), 랍치 (ko) (rapchi) (North Korea)
- Latin: abductiō f, raptiō f
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: киднапи́рање n (kidnapíranje)
- Malay: penculikan (ms)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: bortførsel m, bortførelse m, bortføring m
- Polish: uprowadzenie (pl) n, porwanie (pl) n
- Romanian: răpire (ro) f
- Russian: похище́ние (ru) n (poxiščénije)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: о̀тмица f
- Roman: òtmica (sh) f
- Slovak: únos m
- Slovene: ugrabitev (sl) f
- Spanish: rapto (es) m, secuestro (es) m
- Turkish: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: ви́крадення n (výkradennja), викрада́ння n (vykradánnja)
- Vietnamese: sự bắt cóc (vi)
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physiology: movement separating limb from axis
law: wrongful carrying off of a human being
- Bulgarian: отвличане n (otvličane)
- Catalan: segrest (ca) m
- Czech: únos (cs) m
- Danish: bortføring c, kidnappning c
- Dutch: ontvoering (nl) f, kidnapping (nl) f, schaking (nl) f
- Esperanto: kidnapo, forkapto
- Finnish: sieppaus (fi), ihmisryöstö (fi), kidnappaus (fi)
- French: rapt (fr) m, enlèvement (fr) m
- German: Entführung (de) f
- Greek: απαγωγή (el) f (apagogí)
- Hungarian: emberrablás (hu)
- Indonesian: abduksi (id)
- Irish: fuadach m
- Italian: rapimento (it) m
- Japanese: 誘拐 (ja) (ゆうかい, yūkai)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: bortførsel m, bortførelse m, bortføring m, kidnapping m
- Portuguese: sequestro (pt) m, abdução (pt) f (Brazil)
- Romanian: răpire (ro) f
- Russian: похище́ние (ru) n (poxiščénije)
- Slovene: ugrabitev (sl) f
- Spanish: rapto (es) m
- Turkish: adam kaçırma
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References
- ^ Elliott K. Dobbie, C. William Dunmore, Robert K. Barnhart, et al. (editors), Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2004 , →ISBN), page 2
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abduction”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 3.
Further reading
French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin abductiōnem (“robbing; abduction”), from abdūcō (“take or lead away”).
Pronunciation
Noun
abduction f (plural abductions)
- (physiology) abductive movement; abduction
- (logic, computing) abductive reasoning; abduction
Further reading
Interlingua
Etymology
From Latin abductiō (“robbing; abduction”), from abdūcō (“take or lead away”).
Noun
abduction (plural abductiones)
- abduction