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discontinue #1034

Closed jmccrae closed 1 month ago

jmccrae commented 2 months ago

Synsets oewn-02686624-v (Interlingual Index: i35062) (v) stop, give up, discontinue, lay off, cease, quit put an end to a state or an activity “Quit teasing your little brother”

oewn-00363001-v (Interlingual Index: i23547) (v) stop, break, break off, discontinue prevent completion “stop the project” “break off the negotiations”

Motivation I can't see the difference in these senses. Preventing completion of an activity implies ending the activity and vica versa

fcbond commented 2 months ago

I think there is mainly a difference in sub-categorization, oewn-00363001-v does not take a verb complement.

On the other hand, oewn-02686624-v takes noun or verb.

'break, break off, discontinue' only take noun complements (I think).

On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 at 09:52, John McCrae @.***> wrote:

Synsets oewn-02686624-v (Interlingual Index: i35062) (v) stop https://en-word.net/lemma/stop, give up https://en-word.net/lemma/give%20up, discontinue, lay off https://en-word.net/lemma/lay%20off, cease https://en-word.net/lemma/cease, quit https://en-word.net/lemma/quit put an end to a state or an activity “Quit teasing your little brother”

oewn-00363001-v (Interlingual Index: i23547) (v) stop https://en-word.net/lemma/stop, break https://en-word.net/lemma/break, break off https://en-word.net/lemma/break%20off, discontinue prevent completion “stop the project” “break off the negotiations”

Motivation I can't see the difference in these senses. Preventing completion of an activity implies ending the activity and vica versa

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jmccrae commented 2 months ago

All the verbs in both synsets seem to be able to take a verbal complement (examples from CoCA)

"give up (on) doing what they love most" "And you said " lay off commenting about defending and goal keeping" "who planned to never cease being a girl" "found Jesus and quit using heroin" "she'd break off singing and begin to laugh" "find a new provider or discontinue receiving a service"

It could be the case that "break" only takes noun complements, but I have trouble finding any of this verb used in this sense at all (with any complements)

fcbond commented 2 months ago

Fair enough, then merge (and maybe lose break)!

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All the verbs in both synsets seem to be able to take a verbal complement (examples from CoCA)

"give up (on) doing what they love most" "really wish that person would lay off the button pushing" "who planned to never cease being a girl" "found Jesus and quit using heroin" "she'd break off singing and begin to laugh" "find a new provider or discontinue receiving a service"

It could be the case that "break" only takes noun complements, but I have trouble finding any of this verb used in this sense at all (with any complements)

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