From en.wiktionary.org:
[-term]
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [tûm] , [en]
- [tûrm] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
[en] From [en], borrowed from [en], from [en], ultimately from [en].
[en]. [ang] had [ang], from the same source.
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, [en] .
2. * [passage=Corruption is a reciprocal to generation, and they two are as nature's two TERMS , or boundaries.]
3. * [I]
4. [en] A chronological limitation or restriction , a limited timespan .
5. [en] Any of the binding condition s or promise s in a legal contract .
6. [en] Specifically, the condition s in a legal contract that specify the [en] and also how and when [en] must be made.
7. * 1793 May 17, John Constable and James Piper, advertisement for a packet-boat between Chestertown and Baltimore, Chestertown, Maryland, :File:Packet_Schooner.jpg :
8. *: The Cabin is large and commodious, well calculated for the Accommodation of Paſengers. Merchandiſe, Produce, &c. carried on the loweſt TERMS .
9. [en] [en] A point , line , or superficies that limits.
10. [en] A word or phrase (e.g., noun phrase , verb phrase , open compound ), especially one from a specialise d area of knowledge; a name for a concept.
11. [en] Relations among people.
12. * [chapter=XLIV]
13. [en] Part of a year , especially one of the divisions of an academic year .
14. [en] Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length.
15. * [en-GB]
1. The time during which legal court s are open.
2. Certain days on which rent is paid.
16. [en] With respect to a pregnancy , the usual duration of gestation for the given species (for example, nine months in humans); [en] 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 .
17. [en] [en] The maximum period during which the patent can be maintain ed into force .
18. [en] [en] A menstrual period.
19. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1660 | author=w:Samuel Pepys | title=Diary
|passage=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.}}
1. [en] [en] Any value ( variable or constant ) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table .
2. [en] [en] The subject or the predicate of a proposition ; one of the three component parts of a syllogism , each one of which is used twice.
3. * {{ RQ:Hamilton Metaphysics and Logic
|passage=The subject and predicate of a proposition are, after Aristotle,
together called its TERMS or extremes.}}
1. [en] [en] 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 .
2. [en] [en] A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal. [from 17th c.]
3. * [part=1]
4. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1773 | author=w:Joshua Reynolds | editors=w:John Ingamells; w:John Edgcumbe | title=The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds | publisher=Yale | year_published=2000 | page=42
|passage=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.}}
1. [en] [en] A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail .
***** Hyponyms
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [part of a year] [en] , [en] , [en]
***** Derived terms
{{col3|en |absolute term |abstract term|Paschal term |at term |authorised term
|authorized term |boundary term |come to terms |common term |concrete term
|coordinate term |cosmological term |cross term |decreasing term assurance
|defined term |Easter term |fixed-term |fixed-term contract |full term
|generic term |Gibbons-Hawking-York boundary term |half-term |half term
|Hilary term |INCO term |increasing term assurance |index term |inkhorn term
|in the long term |in the short term |January term |J-term |keep term |lambda
term |late-term |Lent term |level term assurance |loan term |long-term |long
term |long term evolution |long-term memory |long-term potentiation |Long
Vacation term |Long Vac term |major term |medium-term |Michaelmas term |middle
term |mid-term |midterm |mid-term break |minor term |near-term |near term |on
long-term sick |protected term |representation term |rule of the shorter term
|search term |short-term |short term |short-term memory |skunked term |solar
term |technical term |term assurance |term day |term deposit |term investment
|term limit |term-limit |term loan |term logic |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 |time term |trade
term |Trinity term |unauthorised term |unauthorized term }}
***** Related terms
{{col4|en |terminal |terminate |terminographer |terminography |terminologic
|terminological |terminologically |terminology }}
***** Translations
[limitation, restriction or regulation]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da] , [da]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Ladin: [lld] , [lld]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt] [as time limit]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Scots: [sco]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Telugu: [te] , [te]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Venetan: [vec]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy] , [hy]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Coptic: [cop]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et] , [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: [kmr]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maori: [mi]
- Ngazidja Comorian: [zdj]
- Norwegian:
- Persian: [fa] , [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Scots: [sco]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Udmurt: [udm] , [udm] , [udm]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Venetan: [vec] , [vec] , [vec]
- Yakut: [sah]
[trans-bottom]
[relations among people]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] [relations] , [ja] [relations among people]
- Korean: [ko]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Norwegian:
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Swedish: [sv]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[part of a year]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu] [~4 months] , [hu] [~2 months] , [hu] [~3 months] , [hu] , [hu]
- Irish: [ga]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Welsh: [cy]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[period of time, time limit]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da] , [da] , [da]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [limit] [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [period] [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [session] [hu]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] [period time] , [ja] [period of time] , [ja] [time limit] , [ja] [available period]
- Korean: [ko]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[period in office or prison]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] [in office]
- German: [de] [office] , [de] [prison] , [de] [prison]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [prison] [hu] , [hu]
- Japanese: [ja] [period in office] , [ja] [period in prison]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Russian: [ru] [in prison] , [ru] [in office]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[one of the addends in a sum or in another mathematical operation]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Persian: [fa]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[one of three component parts of a syllogism]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt] [~3 months] , [lt] [~4 months]
[trans-bottom]
***** See also
{{col3|en |idiom |lexeme |lexical item |lexicalization |listeme }}
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To phrase a certain way ; to name or call .
2. * [en]
3. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=2013 | month=September-October | author=w:Henry Petroski
|magazine=w:American Scientist|title=The Evolution of Eyeglasses (see
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2013/5/the-evolution-of-eyeglasses)
|passage=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.}}
***** Synonyms
- describe as, [en] , [en] , [en] , refer to; see also Thesaurus:denominate
**** Adjective
[-]
1. [en] Born or deliver ed at term.
**** References
- [pedia]
*** Etymology 2
[en].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A computer program that emulate s a physical terminal.
*** Etymology 3
Short for [en], [en], [en], etc.
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To terminate someone's employment.
2. [en] To delete someone's account .
***** Synonyms
- [en] , [en] , [en] ; see also Thesaurus:lay off
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. One whose employment has been terminate d
*** Further reading
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]
[en] [en]
** Albanian
*** Etymology
From [sq].
*** Noun
[m]
1. foundation , plot of land
**** Related terms
- [sq]
** Chinese
*** Pronunciation
{{zh-pron |c=toem1 |cat=n,v }}
*** Etymology 1
From [yue].
**** Noun
[zh]
1. [zh] [en] [word or phrase]
2. [zh] [en] [timespan]
<!--[zh] [en][binding conditions]-->
*** Etymology 2
From clipping of [yue].
**** Verb
[zh]
1. [zh] to terminate
2. [zh] to have one's study be terminate d
*** References
- [R:yue:ELHKC]
** Dutch
*** Etymology
From [nl], from [nl], from [nl].
*** Pronunciation
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [en] ; A word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge
2. [nl] [en] ; One of the addend s in a sum
**** Derived terms
- [nl]
- [nl]
**** Related terms
- [nl]
- [nl]
**** Descendants
- [id]
*** Anagrams
- [nl]
** Indonesian
*** Etymology
From [id], from [id], from [id], from [id].
*** Pronunciation
[tèrm]
*** Noun
[head=tèrm]
1. [id] [id]
2. [id] [en] [the subject or the predicate of a proposition]
3. [id] [en] [duration of a set length, period in office of fixed length]
4. [en] [part of a year, especially one of the three parts of an academic year]
**** Alternative forms
- [ms]
**** Related terms
{{col|id |termin |terminal |terminasi |terminologi }}
*** Further reading
- [R:KBBI Daring]
** Norwegian Bokmål
*** Etymology
From [nb], via [nb] and [nb].
*** Noun
[nb-noun-m1]
1. a [en] [word or phrase]
*** References
- [R:The Bokmål Dictionary]
** Norwegian Nynorsk
*** Etymology
From [nn], via [nn] and [nn].
*** Noun
[nn-noun-m1]
1. a [en] [word or phrase]
*** References
- [R:The Nynorsk Dictionary]
** Swedish
*** Pronunciation
- [sv]
*** Noun
[c]
1. a [en] [1] (a well-defined word or phrase, in a terminology )
2. [sv] a term [2] (an operand in addition or subtraction)
3. [sv] (a facility for bathing in ancient Rome)
**** Declension
[sv-infl-noun-c-er]
**** Related terms
- [sv]
- [sv]
- [sv]
*** References
References:
[1]. [59215]
[2]. [59214]
[sv] [sv]