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• baptize
• brand
• call
• christen
• clepe
• code-name
• coinage
• collocation
• colloquialism
• cycle
• denominate
• denote
• designate
• dub
• duration
• entitle
• euphemism
• expression
• go
• hitch
• idiom
• label
• life
• life span
• lifespan
• lifetime
• linguistic form
• loanword
• locution
• miscall
• misname
• mistitle
• modernism
• monosyllable
• morpheme
• name
• neologism
• nickname
• nominate
• phrase
• polysyllable
• rechristen
• relabel
• rename
• run
• shift
• span
• specify
• speech form
• spell
• standing
• stigmatize
• stint
• stretch
• style
• surname
• tag
• tenure
• time
• title
• tour
• turn
• vernacularism
• watch
• word

• noun
  1. That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary.
  2. A chronological limitation or restriction.
  3. Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
  4. A point, line, or superficies that limits.
  5. A word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge.
  6. Relations among people.
  7. Part of a year, especially one of the three parts of an academic year.
  8. Duration of a set length; period in office of fixed length.
  9. With respect to a pregnancy, the period during which birth usually happens (approximately 40 weeks from conception).
  10. (of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
  11. A menstrual period.
  12. Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.
  13. The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
  14. 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.
  15. A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal.
  16. A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
  17. A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
  18. One whose employment has been terminated.
• verb
  1. To phrase a certain way; to name or call.
  2. To terminate one's employment.
• adjective
  1. Born or delivered at term.

• She completed her final term at the university with honors.
• The contract is valid for a one-year term.
• He served a four-year term as president.
• The medical term for the condition is unfamiliar to most people.
• They agreed to the term of payment after a brief negotiation.

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