term
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-?
Proto-Indo-European *ter-?
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥
Proto-Italic *termn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Proto-Italic *term(e)nos
Latin terminus
Old French termebor.
Middle English terme
English term
From Middle English terme, borrowed from Old French terme, from Latin terminus (“a bound, boundary, limit, end; in Medieval Latin, also a time, period, word, covenant, etc.”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥ (“stump, end, boundary”).
Doublet of terminus and termon. Old English had termen, from the same source.
Inflected forms:
form: terms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: terms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: terming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: termed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: termed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus.
pos: noun
examples: Corruption is a reciprocal to generation, and they two are as nature's two terms, or boundaries.
At the decline of day,
Winding above the mountain’s snowy term,
New banners shone: […]
"Alright, look...we can spend the holidays with your parents, but this time it will be on my terms."
gloss: A chronological limitation or restriction, a limited timespan.
pos: noun
examples: The term of a lease agreement is the period of time during which the lease is effective, and may be fixed, periodic, or of indefinite duration.
gloss: Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
pos: noun
examples: Be sure to read the terms and conditions before signing.
gloss: Specifically, the conditions in a legal contract that specify the price and also how and when payment must be made.
pos: noun
examples: Q: What are your company's terms? A: Net thirty, cash or check. [This answer means that the net total must be paid within 30 days; see Net D.]
The latest models are available now, on the lowest terms you'll find anywhere, guaranteed.
The Cabin is large and commodious, well calculated for the Accommodation of Paſengers. Merchandiſe, Produce, &c. carried on the loweſt Terms.
gloss: A point, line, or superficies that limits.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: A line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid.
gloss: A word or phrase (e.g., noun phrase, verb phrase, open compound), especially one from a specialised area of knowledge; a name for a concept.
pos: noun
examples: "Algorithm" is a term used in computer science.
The noun phrase "red blood cell", the acronym "RBC", and the word "erythrocyte" are synonymous terms.
gloss: Relations among people.
pos: noun
examples: We are on friendly terms with each other.
Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.[…]Next day she[…]tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and perhaps had spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.
gloss: Part of a year, especially one of the divisions of an academic year.
pos: noun
examples: From 1960 to 1963 I spent my terms at Cambridge University but was back home for the vacs[.]
gloss: Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length.
pos: noun
examples: He was sentenced to a term of six years in prison.
near-term, mid-term and long-term goals
the term allowed to a debtor to discharge his debt
“I don’t believe that the people trust Netanyahu to lead when he is under the burden of such a devastating event that just happened under his term,” he told the Observer.
gloss: Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length.
pos: noun
gloss: Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length.
pos: noun
gloss: With respect to a pregnancy, the usual duration of gestation for the given species (for example, nine months in humans); (metonymic) the end of this duration: the timepoint at which birth usually happens (for example, in humans, approximately 40 weeks from conception), defining the due date.
pos: noun
examples: A pregnancy didn't come to term.
at term
preterm
postterm
gloss: The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
pos: noun
gloss: A menstrual period.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: My wife, after the absence of her terms for seven weeks, gave me hopes of her being with child, but on the last day of the year she hath them again.
gloss: Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.
pos: noun
examples: All the terms of this sum cancel out.
One only term is odd in ( 12; 3; 4 ).
gloss: The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
pos: noun
examples: The subject and predicate of a proposition are, after Aristotle, together called its terms or extremes.
gloss: An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships which affect the power and integrity of each planet in a natal chart.
pos: noun
gloss: A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal.
pos: noun
examples: The pillers that haue bolſtered vp thoſe tearmes,
Are falne in cluſters at my conquering feet.
You have been already informed, I have no doubt, of the subject which we have chosen: the adorning a Term of Hymen with festoons of flowers.
gloss: A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
pos: noun
gloss: To phrase a certain way; to name or call.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Abstraction or prescision ought to be carefully distinguished from two other modes of mental separation, which may be termed discrimination and dissociation.
The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.
gloss: Born or delivered at term.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
not-comparable
examples: term neonate
Synonyms: term
Related words: terminal
terminate
terminographer
terminography
terminologic
terminological
terminologically
terminology
idiom
lexeme
lexical item
lexicalization
listeme
-onym
Derived words: absolute term
abstract term
at term
authorised term
authorized term
biterm
boundary term
catch-all term
come to terms
common term
concrete term
coordinate term
cosmological term
counterterm
cross term
decreasing term assurance
defined term
Easter term
fixed-term
fixed term
fixed-term contract
full term
generic term
Gibbons-Hawking-York boundary term
half term
half-term
headterm
Hilary term
Incoterm
INCO term
increasing term assurance
index term
inkhorn term
interterm
in the long term
in the short term
January term
J-term
keep term
kinterm
lambda term
late-term
Lent term
level term assurance
loan term
long-term
long term
longterm
long term evolution
long-term memory
long-term potentiation
Long Vacation term
Long Vac term
major term
medium term
medium-term
Michaelmas term
middle term
midterm
mid-term
mid-term break
minor term
misterm
multiterm
near term
near-term
neoterm
nonterm
on long-term sick
Paschal term
postterm
protected term
representation term
rule of the shorter term
search term
short term
short-term
short-term memory
skunked term
solar term
subterm
technical term
term assurance
termbase
term day
term deposit
termful
termgraph
term investment
termless
term-limit
term limit
term loan
term logic
termly
term of address
term of art
term of endearment
term of notice
term of venery
term of years
term of years absolute
term of years determinable
term out
term paper
term phrase
terms and conditions
term sheet
term time
term-trotter
termwise
time term
trade term
Trinity term
unauthorised term
unauthorized term
Uniterm
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: срок
roman: srok
lang: Catalan
word: mandat
lang: Danish
word: mandatperiode
lang: Finnish
word: toimikausi
lang: French
word: mandat
lang: German
word: Amtszeit
lang: German
word: Haftstrafe
lang: German
word: Gefängnisstrafe
lang: Greek
word: θητεία
roman: thiteía
lang: Hungarian
word: hivatali idő (szak)
lang: Hungarian
word: ciklus
lang: Hungarian
word: terminus
lang: Hungarian
word: börtönbüntetés
lang: Hungarian
word: szabadságvesztés
lang: Japanese
word: 任期
roman: ninki
lang: Japanese
word: 刑期
roman: keiki
lang: Lithuanian
word: kadencija
lang: Norman
word: gestion
lang: Russian
word: срок
roman: srok
lang: Russian
word: срок полномо́чий
roman: srok polnomóčij
lang: Slovak
word: doba
lang: Swedish
word: mandatperiod
lang: Ukrainian
word: строк
roman: strok
lang: Asturian
word: términu
lang: Bulgarian
word: член
roman: člen
lang: Catalan
word: terme
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 被加數 /被加数
roman: bèijiāshù
lang: Czech
word: člen
lang: Czech
word: výraz
lang: Danish
word: led
lang: Dutch
word: term
lang: Estonian
word: liidetav
lang: Finnish
word: termi
lang: French
word: terme
lang: Galician
word: termo
lang: German
word: Term
lang: Hindi
word: जुमला
roman: jumlā
lang: Hungarian
word: tag
lang: Hungarian
word: kifejezés
lang: Hungarian
word: összeadandó
lang: Icelandic
word: liður
lang: Italian
word: termine
lang: Japanese
word: 項
roman: kō
lang: Persian
word: جمله
lang: Polish
word: wyraz
lang: Portuguese
word: termo
lang: Russian
word: член
roman: člen
lang: Russian
word: слага́емое
roman: slagájemoje
lang: Spanish
word: término
lang: Swedish
word: term
lang: Tagalog
word: takay
lang: Turkish
word: terim