abduction
Seizure of person
Abduction is the act of taking someone away by force or deception—kidnapping.
The term appears in legal contexts and news reports: The abduction occurred outside the school.
In anatomy and physiology, abduction means moving a limb away from the body's midline, the opposite of adduction.
In logic, abduction is reasoning from effect to likely cause—inferring the best explanation from incomplete evidence.
Unlawful seizure of person
- ransomPayment for captive's release
- hostageCaptive held as security
- victimOne harmed by another
- traffickingIllegal transport for profit
captivity · snatch · detain · seize · coercion · extortion · disappearance · unlawful
Being from outer space
- UFOUnidentified aerial craft
- spaceshipVehicle for interplanetary travel
- abducteeOne forcibly taken
- beamStructural support member
probe · encounter · Roswell · Area 51 · saucer · contactee · close encounter · grey
Contractile body tissue
- movementChange in position
- limbJointed bodily projection
- lateralOf the side
- jointShared by multiple parties
hip · shoulder · midline · away · flexion · extension · rotation · range
Conclusion reached through reasoning
- deductionConclusion from premises
- hypothesisTestable proposed explanation
- reasoningDrawing logical conclusions
- premiseFoundation for logical argument
conclusion · conjecture · explanation · plausible · best explanation · diagnostic · scientific method · induction
kidnapping
Unlawful seizure of person
trafficking · captivity · snatch · detain · seize · coercion · extortion · disappearance · unlawful · lure
extraterrestrial
Being from outer space
beam · probe · encounter · Roswell · Area 51 · saucer · contactee · close encounter · grey · implant
muscle
Contractile body tissue
joint · hip · shoulder · midline · away · flexion · extension · rotation · range · motion
inference
Conclusion reached through reasoning
- deductionConclusion from premises
- hypothesisTestable proposed explanation
- reasoningDrawing logical conclusions
premise · conclusion · conjecture · explanation · plausible · best explanation · diagnostic · scientific method · induction · syllogism
- UFO LoreUFOs, flying saucers, close encounters, Roswell, Area 51
- crimesarson, burglary, robbery, kidnapping, vandalism
- true crimetrue crime, cold case, crime docs, unsolved mystery, murder mystery
- Alien Invasionflying saucers, death rays, tripods, ray guns, war machines
- Extraterrestrialsalien, aliens, extraterrestrial, ET, UFO
- reasoningreasoning, reason, logic, inference, deductive
abductionrelease
To let go
liberation · freeing · emancipation · rescue · deliverance
- alien abductionClaimed capture by extraterrestrials
- child abductionUnlawfully taking a minor
- parental abductionParent unlawfully takes own child
- infant abductionStealing a very young child