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Term   /tərm/   Listen
Term

noun
1.
A word or expression used for some particular thing.
2.
A limited period of time.  "He left school before the end of term"
3.
(usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement.  Synonym: condition.  "The terms of the treaty were generous"
4.
Any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial.
5.
One of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition.
6.
The end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent.  Synonym: full term.
7.
(architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome.  Synonyms: terminal figure, terminus.
verb
(past & past part. termed; pres. part. terming)
1.
Name formally or designate with a term.



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"Term" Quotes from Famous Books



... gasped, "how awfully ripping it is to be back here again with you and Cousin Richard and Aunt Katherine! I wish number-four dormitory would get measles the middle of every term!—Only I forgot—perhaps I ought not to touch you, Honoria, after messing about with the dogs. ...
— The History of Sir Richard Calmady - A Romance • Lucas Malet
... so far as to hint darkly that I almost owed my liberty to him—as much as to say that, if he chose to speak, I'd have to do a term in ...
— The Scarlet Feather • Houghton Townley
... Flight, a palm tree became a usual accessory. In a picture by Antonello Mellone, the Child stretches out his little hand and lays hold of the branch: sometimes the branch is bent down by angel hands. Sozomenes relates, that when the Holy Family reached the term of their journey, and approached the city of Heliopolis in Egypt, a tree which grew before the gates of the city, and was regarded with great veneration as the seat of a god, bowed down its branches at the approach of the Infant Christ. Likewise ...
— Legends of the Madonna • Mrs. Jameson
... now since a certain consumptive-looking young man had caused the upheaval of a private enterprise back of The Hollow and made so much unpleasantness, but Norman Teale had served his term in prison and had got on his feet once more, and Greeley had a momentary touch of sympathy for the Speak-Easy magnates as he glanced up at this new ...
— A Son of the Hills • Harriet T. Comstock
... chaste character, or that he was somewhere else at the time, or that the girl's evidence was contradictory; but if he had stolen any article from any building belonging to or adjacent to a railway station, or any article belonging to a railway company, he would have been liable to a term of fourteen years. This is the law, and the church folds its plump hands over its broadcloth waistcoat and makes no protest! The church has not yet even touched the outer fringe of the white slave evil and yet those high in authority dare ...
— In Times Like These • Nellie L. McClung


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