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terminal English

Learners of English as a second language usually know the word terminal once they have reached the level B2 – Upper Intermediate. English words by learner level A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2

Meaning terminal meaning

What does terminal mean?

Definitions in simple English

terminal Noun

— A terminal is the end of a train track or bus route. It is the station or the last stop. The bus drove into the terminal and all the people got off.

— A computer screen and keyboard, which are at the end of a wire joining them to a computer. She sat at the computer terminal and typed some words.

— A terminal is a building in an airport where passengers transfer to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.

terminal Adjective

— The last. At the end, in time or in space. A terminal illness is a sickness that will make the person die.

terminal

— noun station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods

— noun a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves

— adjective relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time terminal examinations terminal payments

— adjective of or relating to or situated at the ends of a delivery route freight pickup is a terminal service terminal charges

— noun electronic equipment consisting of a device providing access to a computer; has a keyboard and display

— adjective causing or ending in or approaching death a terminal patient terminal cancer

— adjective being or situated at an end the endmost pillar terminal buds on a branch a terminal station the terminal syllable

— noun (= end) either extremity of something that has length the end of the pier she knotted the end of the thread they rode to the end of the line the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix

— adjective (= concluding, final, last) occurring at or forming an end or termination his concluding words came as a surprise the final chapter the last days of the dinosaurs terminal leave

Synonyms terminal synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as terminal?

terminal English » English

terminus

final

end

last

ultimate

pole

concluding

tip

terminal station

extremity

ending

end point

depot

termination

terminal point

term

supreme

mortal

incurable

destination

data terminal

connector

uttermost

utmost

unappealable

unalterable

umbilicus

trailing end

top

tip end

termination point

terminatio

terminating ornament

terminating

terminal vertex

terminal symbol

terminal endpoint

terminal end

terminal emulator

suffix

station

side

semester

remaining

rearmost

railhead

post head

post

poll

pivot

Topics terminal topics

What do people use terminal to talk about?

Person Healthy

Disease

• What words describe a disease that kills people?
  terminal fatal incurable

Person Life

Die

• What words describe an illness or wound that will cause the person to die?
  fatal terminal

Work and occupation Working with buildings

Building

• What kinds of buildings are found at airports?
  hangar control tower terminal

Work and occupation Occupation Working with machines

Working with electricity

• What words refer to electricity?
  electricity electric electronic positive negative terminal socket plug wire power pole transformer hydroelectric

States Time Aspectual time Start something

End

• What words refer to the end of something?
  end finish conclusion consummation culmination denouement expiration finale homestretch last outcome termination terminus terminal conclusion time is up that is all

Examples terminal examples

How do I use terminal in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Where is the bus terminal?

Please stay seated until we reach the terminal.

We met them by accident by the bus terminal.

Where is the south terminal?

Tom is terminal.

Movie subtitles

Uh, terminal cancer.

Ladies and gentlemen. today a great chapter of history has been written. and we take justifiable pride. in bringing this railroad to the terminal furthest west in this country.

Service dives to terminal velocity.

Attach the high-frequency leads to the terminal electrodes.

Out the terminal to your right and across the field.

Bus terminal, please hurry.

I'll spend my terminal leave looking for a place big enough for Carol and the kids.

This is the main terminal of our newest and greatest venture.

Hello? Is this the bus terminal?

Someone for that bus terminal again.

We'll buy them when we get to the terminal.

We're at the terminal, gentlemen.

Hey, we're at the terminal, sir.

Although I've never lived at a tram terminal.

It would appear his intention is to use the flying debris field in an attempt to destroy my terminal.

All we suffered in this exchange was the loss of one terminal.

Ladies and gentlemen, today a great chapter of history has been written and we take justifiable pride in bringing this railroad to the terminal furthest west in this country.

Tell him I never use 'em, and he can go look on Terminal Dock. and ifhe doesn't find one, he can jump off it.

Mr. Cravat is wanted by the police for a murder which occurred on Terminal Dock. This very dock, three years ago.

There was a witness to the murder, a man who used to work on Terminal Dock.

Did he say anything before- Yeah, everything I wanted to hear, all about a suitcase he hid under Terminal Dock.

On a treasure hunt after a suitcase under Terminal Dock.

Terminal shipyards.

I have to go to terminal.

The young woman from the ferry terminal delivered something small in the night Doctor.

Now we'll go to the ferry terminal, to say good day to the young mother.

Is this the bus terminal?

Stake out the bus terminal for me, will you?

Right into the terminal on the north-east corner of Tazewell and Monticello?

She says go look on Terminal Dock. and then jump off it!

Mr. Cravat is wanted by the police for a murder which occurred on Terminal Dock.

Yeah, everything I wanted to hear, all about a suitcase he hid under Terminal Dock.

You can see the bacilli and terminal spores quite clearly.

All they said, I should check the master terminal.

News and current affairs

Failure to do so leads, over time, to terminal organizational weakness, owing to lost credibility amongst employees, shareholders, customers, and communities.

Assisting a person who has explicitly asked to die is increasingly being seen as a justifiable action, especially in the context of a terminal illness.

He fought his terminal cancer for over 18 months, never complaining, always expressing optimism that the latest experimental treatment would work.

Assuming that Megrahi was guilty, and that he was released because he has only a short time to live, does a prisoner's terminal illness justify compassionate release?

Saddled with a rust-belt infrastructure, Russia further disqualifies itself with dysfunctional and revanchist politics and a demographic trend in near-terminal decline.

BEIJING - Ever since it opened recently, Terminal 5 of London's Heathrow Airport has been plagued with failures.

On the other side of the globe, Terminal 3 in Beijing, which opened for full operations just one day before Terminal 5, has been operating almost without a glitch.

At one million square meters, T3 in Beijing is the largest terminal in the world, but was much less costly to build than T5 in London.

Today, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's regime is afflicted with the same terminal disease, despite - or because of - the seemingly impermeable political wall that it spent years constructing around itself.

With the Communist Party in terminal decline, ideologies are vanishing.

LONDON - The contrast between the deaths, within two days of each other, of Libya's Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdel Aziz is one of terminal buffoonery versus decadent gerontocracy.

Is the future of this American hegemony terminal, or is its future transitional?