Synonyms of the word

term

• n. Limitation, restriction or regulation.
• n. Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
• n. That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary.
• n. (geometry, archaic) A point, line, or superficies that limits.
• n. A word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge.
• n. Relations among people.
• n. Part of a year, especially one of the three parts of an academic year.
• n. Duration of a set length; period in office of fixed length.
• n. (of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
• n. (archaic) A menstrual period.
• n. (mathematics) Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or…
• n. (logic) The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism,…
• n. (astrology) An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships…
• n. (architecture) A quadrangular pillar, adorned on top with the figure of a head, as of a man, woman, or…
• n. (nautical) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
• v. To phrase a certain way, especially with an unusual wording.
• n. (computing, informal) terminal (computer program that emulates a physical terminal).
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To terminate one's employment.
• n. One whose employment has been terminated.

call

• n. A telephone conversation.
• n. A short visit, usually for social purposes.
• n. (nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
• n. A cry or shout.
• n. A decision or judgement.
• n. The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
• n. A beckoning or summoning.
• n. The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
• n. (finance) An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.
• n. (cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
• n. (cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.).
• n. A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call).
• n. (computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
• n. A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
• n. (poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
• n. A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
• n. (nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
• n. A pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry.
• n. An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
• n. (archaic) Vocation; employment; calling.
• n. (US, law) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description…
• v. (heading) To use one's voice.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To visit.
• v. (heading) To name, identify or describe.
• v. (heading, sports) Direct or indirect use of the voice.
• v. (transitive, sometimes with for) To require, demand.
• v. (transitive, finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
• v. (transitive, banking) To demand repayment of a loan.
• v. (transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to…

condition

• n. A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
• n. A requirement, term, or requisite.
• n. (law) A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal…
• n. The health status of a medical patient.
• n. The state or quality.
• n. A particular state of being.
• n. (obsolete) The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.
• v. To subject to the process of acclimation.
• v. To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
• v. (transitive) To place conditions or limitations upon.
• v. To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
• v. (transitive) To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.
• v. (transitive) To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
• v. (transitive) To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
• v. (US, colleges, transitive) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up…
• v. To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged…

constituent

• adj. Being a part, or component of a whole.
• adj. Authorized to make a constitution.
• n. A part, or component of a whole.
• n. The person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs.
• n. A resident of a place represented by an elected official.
• n. (law) One who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact.
• n. (grammar) A functional element of a phrase or clause.

name

• n. Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.
• n. Reputation.
• n. An abusive or insulting epithet.
• n. A person (or legal person).
• n. Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
• n. (computing) A unique identifier, generally a string of characters.
• n. (Britain, finance) An investor in Lloyds of London bearing unlimited liability.
• v. (transitive) To give a name to.
• v. (transitive) To mention, specify.
• v. (transitive) To identify as relevant or important.
• v. (transitive) To publicly implicate.
• v. (transitive) To designate for a role.
• n. Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking.

period

• adj. Appropriate for a given historical era.
• adj. (of a film, or play, or similar) Set in and designed to evoke a particular historical period, especially…
• interj. (chiefly Canada, US) And nothing else; and nothing less; used for emphasis.
• n. A length of time.
• n. A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.
• n. (now chiefly Canada, US) The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
• n. The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition…
• n. Female menstruation.
• n. A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.
• n. Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.
• n. (chiefly Canada, US) Each of the intervals into which various sporting events are divided.
• n. (obsolete, medicine) The length of time for a disease to run its course.
• n. An end or conclusion; the final point of a process etc.
• n. (rhetoric) A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic…
• n. (obsolete) A specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage.
• n. (chemistry) A row in the periodic table of the elements.
• n. (geology) A subdivision of an era, typically lasting from tens to hundreds of millions of years, see Appendix:…
• n. (genetics) A Drosophila gene which gene product is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.
• n. (music) Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).
• n. (mathematics) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed…
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To come to a period; to conclude.
• v. (obsolete, transitive, rare) To put an end to.

point

• n. A discrete division of something.
• n. A sharp extremity.
• n. (heraldry) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
• n. (nautical) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
• n. (historical) A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
• n. Lace worked by the needle.
• n. (US, slang, dated) An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.
• n. The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
• n. (falconry) The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
• n. The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
• n. The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
• n. (medicine, obsolete) A vaccine point.
• n. In various sports, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player occupying that position.
• v. (intransitive) To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or…
• v. (intransitive) To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
• v. (intransitive) To face in a particular direction.
• v. (transitive) To direct toward an object; to aim.
• v. To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
• v. (intransitive) To indicate a probability of something.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, masonry) To repair mortar.
• v. (transitive, masonry) To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or…
• v. (stone-cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
• v. (transitive) To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
• v. (transitive) To mark with diacritics.
• v. (dated) To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate.
• v. (transitive, computing) To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location…
• v. (transitive, Internet) To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail close to the wind.
• v. (intransitive, hunting) To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting…
• v. (medicine, of an abscess) To approximate to the surface; to head.
• v. (obsolete) To appoint.
• v. (dated) To give particular prominence to; to designate in a special manner; to point out.

quantity

• n. A fundamental, generic term used when referring to the measurement (count, amount) of a scalar, vector,…
• n. An indefinite amount of something.
• n. A specific measured amount.
• n. A considerable measure or amount.
• n. (metrology) Property of a phenomenon, body, or substance, where the property has a magnitude that can…
• n. (mathematics) Indicates that the entire preceding expression is henceforth considered a single object.

statement

• n. A declaration or remark.
• n. A presentation of opinion or position.
• n. (finance) A document that summarizes financial activity.
• n. (computing) An instruction in a computer program.
• v. (transitive) To provide an official document of a proposition, especially in the UK a Statement of Special…

statue

• n. A three-dimensional work of art, usually representing a person or animal, usually created by sculpting,…
• n. (dated) A portrait.
• v. (transitive) To form a statue of; to make into a statue.

terminus

• n. The end or final point of something.
• n. The end point of a transportation system, or the town or city in which it is located.
• n. A boundary or border, or a post or stone marking such a boundary.

word

• n. The smallest unit of language which has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest…
• n. Something which is like such a unit of language.
• n. The fact or act of speaking, as opposed to taking action.
• n. (now rare outside certain phrases) Something which has been said; a comment, utterance; speech.
• n. (obsolete outside certain phrases) A watchword or rallying cry, a verbal signal (even when consisting…
• n. (obsolete) A proverb or motto.
• n. News; tidings (used without an article).
• n. An order; a request or instruction; an expression of will.
• n. A promise; an oath or guarantee.
• n. A brief discussion or conversation.
• n. (in the plural) See words.
• n. (theology, sometimes Word) Communication from God; the message of the Christian gospel; the Bible, Scripture.
• n. (theology, sometimes Word) Logos, Christ.
• v. (transitive) To say or write (something) using particular words; to phrase (something).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To flatter with words, to cajole.
• v. (transitive) To ply or overpower with words.
• v. (transitive, rare) To conjure with a word.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To speak, to use words; to converse, to discourse.
• interj. (slang, African American Vernacular) Truth, indeed, that is the truth! The shortened form of the statement…
• interj. (slang, emphatic, stereotypically, African American Vernacular) An abbreviated form of word up; a statement…
• v. Alternative form of worth (to become).