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Abandon, a 2002 film starring Katie Holmes; Abandoned, starring Dennis O'Keefe; Abandoned, the English language title of the Italian war film Gli Sbandati; Abandoned, a Hungarian film; Abandoned, starring Brittany Murphy; Abandoned, a television movie about the shipwreck of the Rose-Noëlle in 1989
Apostasy (/ ə ˈ p ɒ s t ə s i /; Ancient Greek: ἀποστασία, romanized: apostasía, lit. 'defection, revolt') is the formal disaffiliation from, abandonment of, or renunciation of a religion by a person.
Orphans by Thomas Kennington, oil on canvas, 1885. An orphan is a child whose parents have died, are unknown or have permanently abandoned them. It can also refer to a child who has lost only one parent, as the Hebrew translation, for example, is "fatherless".
Abandonware advocates also frequently cite historical preservation as a reason for trading abandoned software. [22] Older computer media are fragile and prone to rapid deterioration, necessitating transfer of these materials to more modern, stable media and generation of many copies to ensure the software will not simply disappear.
It is possible that the expression "throw/push/shove someone under the bus" came from Britain in the late 1970s or early 1980s. [1] [2] The earliest known usage of this phrase was 21 June 1982, when Julian Critchley of The Times (London) wrote "President Galtieri had pushed her under the bus which the gossips had said was the only means of her removal."
An item that has been abandoned is termed an abandum. [4] A res nullius abandoned by its owner, leaving it vacant, belongs to no one. In the American legal and media context, investigative reporters have relied on the concepts of abandonment or "constructive abandonment" in receiving documents from sources.
As a verb, desert means to abandon. As a noun, desert is a barren or uninhabited place; an older meaning of the word is "what one deserves", as in the idiom just deserts . A dessert is the last course of a meal.
Finders, keepers, sometimes extended as the children's rhyme finders, keepers; losers, weepers, is an English adage with the premise that when something is unowned or abandoned, whoever finds it first can claim it for themself permanently.