| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To stop, discontinue, halt, desist or check.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To quit or leave. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To abstain or forbear. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To linger or stay. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To end, finish, terminate, accomodate or demise. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To entail. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To interrupt or break.[Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Present participle conjugation of the verb cease.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (cease) | 1. Put an end to a state or an activity.[Wordnet]. 2. 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".[Wordnet]. 3. To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; as, the noise ceased.[Websters]. 4. To be wanting; to fail; to pass away.[Websters]. 5. To put a stop to; to bring to an end.[Websters]. 6. Base verb from the following inflections: ceasing, ceased, ceases, ceaser, ceasers, ceasingly and ceasedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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"CEASING" is a common misspelling or typo for: creasing. |
Date "CEASING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Specialty Definition: CEASING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Stopping; ending; desisting; failing.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] a cessation. (references) | 2: [Verb] Present participle of cease. (references) | |
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Common Expressions: cease
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Cease and desist | Cease-and-desist is a legal term meaning essentially stop: It is used in demands for a person or organization to permanently stop doing something (to cease and desist from doing it). (references) | ||
| Cease and desist order | (law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Cease Fire (Enterprise episode) | Archer negotiates a cease fire between Andorians and Vulcans. (references) | ||
| When I have Fears that I may Cease to Be | When I have Fears that I may Cease to Be is a poem by John Keats. It was written in January of 1818 and has the form of a Shakespearean sonnet. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: cease
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Cease and desist order | Finance | A formal demand from the Office of Thrift Supervision, other government agency, or court, to a person or institution ordering an immediate halt to a specified activity. An OTS cease and desist order is a formal enforcement action. If the respondent does not challenge the issuance of the order, it is called a consent cease and desist order. (references) | |
| CEASE BUZZER | Military | (DOD) An unclassified term to terminate electronic attack activities, including the use of electronic warfare expendables. See also electronic attack; electronic warfare. (references) | |
| Cease engagement | Military | In air defense, a fire control order used to direct units to stop the firing sequence against a designated target. Guided missiles already in flight will continue to intercept. See also engage; hold fire. (references) | |
| Cease engagement | Military & Defense | In air defence, a fire control order used to direct units to stop the firing sequence against a designated target. Guided missiles already in flight will continue to intercept. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Cease fire | Military | (DOD) 1. A command given to any unit or individual firing any weapon to stop engaging the target. See also call for fire; fire mission. 2. A command given to air defense artillery units to refrain from firing on, but to continue to track, an airborne object. Missiles already in flight will be permitted to continue to intercept. (references) | |
| Cease fire line | Military | See armistice demarcation line. See also armistice; cease fire. (references) | |
| CEASE II | Military | Compact Spectral MASINT Exploitation Capability. (references) | |
| Cease loading | Military | In artillery and naval gunfire support, the command used during firing of two or more rounds to indicate the suspension of inserting rounds into the weapon. (references) | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: cease | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Cease Fire (Enterprise) | 12 | Cease and desist | 8 | |
| Cease to Begin | 12 | Cease Fire! | 3 | |
| Cease and desist | 8 | Cease Fire (Enterprise) | 12 | |
| Kyle Cease | 8 | Cease to Begin | 12 | |
| Jeff Cease | 7 | Cease to Suffer | 5 | |
| Cease to Suffer | 5 | Jeff Cease | 7 | |
| Cease Fire! | 3 | Kyle Cease | 8 | |
| When I have Fears that I may Cease to Be | 3 | When I have Fears that I may Cease to Be | 3 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
