different between terms vs betrim

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??mz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /t?mz/

Noun

terms

1. plural of term

Verb

terms

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of term

Anagrams

• ERTMS

Swedish

Noun

terms

1. indefinite genitive singular of term

English

Etymology

From be- +? trim.

Verb

betrim (third-person singular simple present betrims, present participle betrimming, simple past and past participle betrimmed) (transitive)

1. To set in order; to adorn, deck, or embellish.

   • Thy bankes with pioned, and twilled brims

     Which ?pungie Aprill, at thy he?t betrims;

     To make cold Nymphes cha?t crownes; […]

   • 1845, William Tennant, Esther; or the Fall of Haman, Act III, Scene 3, in Hebrew Dramas, Edinburgh: John Menzies, p. 178,^[1]

     I must betrim myself to-day in all

     My rarest ornaments of royalty;

   • 1897, Margaret Sidney, Phronsie Pepper, Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, Chapter 8, p. 130,^[2]

     Alexia […] fanned vigorously, so that she set all the feathers on her much-betrimmed hat into a violent flutter.

2. To trim (anything) about.

Anagrams

• biterm, timber, timbre