term

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /tɜːm/|[tʰɜːm] ~ [tʰɐ̝ːm]    美 /tɜːm/|[tʰɜːm] ~ [tʰɐ̝ːm]|/tɝm/|[tʰɝm] ~ [tʰɚ̞m]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus.
    — Corruption is a reciprocal to generation, and they two are as nature's two terms, or boundaries.
  2. One whose employment has been terminated
  3. A computer program that emulates a physical terminal. informal
  4. A chronological limitation or restriction, a limited timespan.
    — 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.
  5. Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
    — Be sure to read the terms and conditions before signing.
  6. Specifically, the conditions in a legal contract that specify the price and also how and when payment must be made.
    — 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.]
  7. A point, line, or superficies that limits. archaic
    — A line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid.
  8. 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.
    — "Algorithm" is a term used in computer science.
  9. Relations among people.
    — We are on friendly terms with each other.
  10. Part of a year, especially one of the divisions of an academic year.
    — From 1960 to 1963 I spent my terms at Cambridge University but was back home for the vacs[.]
  11. Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length.
    — He was sentenced to a term of six years in prison.
  12. Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length.; The time during which legal courts are open.
  13. Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length.; Certain days on which rent is paid.
  14. 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.
    — A pregnancy didn't come to term.
  15. The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
  16. A menstrual period. archaic
    — 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.
  17. Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.
    — All the terms of this sum cancel out.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal.
    — The pillers that haue bolſtered vp thoſe tearmes, Are falne in cluſters at my conquering feet.
  21. A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
动词 v.
  1. To phrase a certain way; to name or call. transitive
    — Abstraction or prescision ought to be carefully distinguished from two other modes of mental separation, which may be termed discrimination and dissociation.
  2. To terminate someone's employment. ambitransitive,informal
  3. To delete someone's account. informal,transitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Born or delivered at term. colloquial,not-comparable
    — term neonate

词形变化

terms plural terms present,singular,third-person terming participle,present termed participle,past termed past terms plural terms present,singular,third-person terming participle,present termed participle,past termed past terms plural

词汇关系

近义词
term axe fire sack
下位词
blanket term collective term umbrella term word phrase name synonym antonym meronym holonym troponym eponym retronym toponym contranym anthroponym pragmonym ergonym colloquialism vulgarism honorific pejorative dysphemism euphemism expletive eulogism Americanism Anglicism Arabism Germanism Grecism Gallicism Frenchism Hebraism Hispanism Italianism Polonism Russianism Slavism
衍生词
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
相关词
terminal terminate terminographer terminography terminologic terminological terminologically terminology idiom lexeme lexical item lexicalization listeme -onym

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
Clipping of terminal.
词源 3
Short for terminate, termination, terminated employee, etc.
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