different between term vs reservation
term
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tûm, IPA(key): /t??m/
- (US) enPR: tûrm, IPA(key): /t?m/
- Rhymes: -??(r)m
Etymology 1
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.”).
Doublet of terminus. Old English had termen, from the same source.
Noun
term (plural terms)
- That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary.
- A chronological limitation or restriction.
- Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
- (geometry, archaic) A point, line, or superficies that limits.
- A line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid.
- A word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge.
- "Algorithm" is a term used in computer science.
- Relations among people.
- Part of a year, especially one of the three parts of an academic year.
- Duration of a set length; period in office of fixed length.
- The time during which legal courts are open.
- Certain days on which rent is paid.
- With respect to a pregnancy, the period during which birth usually happens (approximately 40 weeks from conception).
- (of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
- (archaic) A menstrual period.
- 1660, Samuel Pepys, Diary
- 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.
- 1660, Samuel Pepys, Diary
- (mathematics) Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.
- (logic) The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
- The subject and predicate of a proposition are, after Aristotle, together called its terms or extremes.
- (astrology) 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.
- (art) A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal. [from 17th c.]
- 1773, Joshua Reynolds, in John Ingamells, John Edgcumbe (eds.), The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Yale 2000, p. 42:
- 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.
- 1773, Joshua Reynolds, in John Ingamells, John Edgcumbe (eds.), The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Yale 2000, p. 42:
- (nautical) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
- The Cabin is large and commodious, well calculated for the Accommodation of Pa?engers. Merchandi?e, Produce, &c. carried on the lowe?t Terms.[1]
Hyponyms
- blanket term
- collective term
- umbrella term
- (part of a year): trimester, semester, quarter
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- idiom
- lexeme
- listeme
- word
Verb
term (third-person singular simple present terms, present participle terming, simple past and past participle termed)
- To phrase a certain way; to name or call.
Synonyms
- describe as, designate, dub, name, refer to; see also Thesaurus:denominate
Adjective
term (not comparable)
- (medicine, colloquial) Born or delivered at term.
References
- term on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
Clipping of terminal.
Noun
term (plural terms)
- (computing, informal) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
Etymology 3
Short for terminate, termination, terminated employee, etc.
Verb
term (third-person singular simple present terms, present participle terming, simple past and past participle termed)
- (transitive, intransitive) To terminate one's employment
Synonyms
- axe, fire, sack; see also Thesaurus:lay off
Noun
term (plural terms)
- One whose employment has been terminated
Further reading
- term in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- term in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Albanian
Etymology
From ter.
Noun
term m (indefinite plural terma, definite singular terma, definite plural termat)
- foundation, plot of land
Related terms
- ter
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?rm
Noun
term m (plural termen, diminutive termpje n)
- term; A word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge.
- (mathematics) term; One of the addends in a sum
Derived terms
- termsgewijs
Anagrams
- remt
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin terminus, via French terme and English term
Noun
term m (definite singular termen, indefinite plural termer, definite plural termene)
- a term (word or phrase)
References
- “term” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin terminus, via French terme and English term
Noun
term m (definite singular termen, indefinite plural termar, definite plural termane)
- a term (word or phrase)
References
- “term” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Noun
term c
- a term (a well-defined word or phrase, in a terminology)
- (mathematics) a term (an operand in addition or subtraction)
- singular of termer (“thermae, Roman baths”) (a facility for bathing in ancient Rome)
Declension
Related terms
- fackterm
- termbank
- terminologi
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reservation
English
Etymology
From Middle French reservation.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???z??ve???n/
- (US) IPA(key): /???z??ve???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
reservation (countable and uncountable, plural reservations)
- The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
- The committee authorised the reservation of funds.
- The practice of reserving part of the consecrated bread of the Eucharist for the communion of the sick.
- The act of the pope to reserve to himself the right to nominate to certain benefices.
- Something that is withheld or kept back.
- (often in the plural) A limiting qualification regarding certainty; a doubt.
- I have reservations about your intentions.
- (US) A tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people; Indian reservation (compare Canadian reserve).
- An arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance.
- (Britain) The area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway or dual carriageway; see also central reservation.
- A vehicle crashed through the central reservation into the path of oncoming traffic.
- (India) The setting aside of a certain percentage of vacancies in government institutions for members of backward and underrepresented communities (defined primarily by caste and tribe).
Synonyms
- (advance arrangement): booking
- (central reservation, motorway lane separator): median, median strip
- (Indian reservation): reserve, res, rez
Related terms
- mental reservation
- off the reservation
- reserve
Translations
Anagrams
- veratrosine
Middle French
Noun
reservation f (plural reservations)
- reservation (limiting qualification)
Descendants
- English: reservation
- French: réservation
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