Accord vs Term - What's the difference?
accord | term |
Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.
* 1769 ,
* Francis Bacon
A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord.
* 17th' ' century , "The Self-Subsistence of the Soul", ,
Agreement or harmony of things in general.
(legal) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.
(international law) An international agreement.
(obsolete) Assent
Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.
* Bible, Leviticus xxv. 5
(lb) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
*1590 , (Philip Sidney), (w, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia) , p.150:
*:[H]er hands accorded the Lutes musicke to the voice;
(lb) To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.
*, Book III:
*:But Satyrane forth stepping, did them stay / And with faire treatie pacifide their ire, / Then when they were accorded from the fray
*(Robert South) (1634–1716)
*:all which particulars, being confessedly knotty and difficult, can never be accorded but by a competent stock of critical learning
(lb) To agree or correspond; to be in harmony.
*1593 , (William Shakespeare), , III-i:
*:For things are often spoke and seldom meant; / But that my heart accordeth with my tongue,—
*1671 , (John Milton), (Paradise Regained) , :
*:[T]hy actions to thy words accord ;
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
(lb) To agree in pitch and tone.
To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.
*1951 , United Nations' , article 14:
*:In respect of the protection of industrial property,a refugee shall be accorded' in the country in which he has his habitual residence the same protection as is ' accorded to nationals of that country.
To give consent.
To arrive at an agreement.
Limitation, restriction or regulation. (rfex)
Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary.
* Francis Bacon
(geometry) A point, line, or superficies that limits.
A word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge.
Relations among people.
* , chapter=22
, title= Part of a year, especially one of the three parts of an academic year.
(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.
* Sir W. Hamilton
(architecture) A quadrangular pillar, adorned on top with the figure of a head, as of a man, woman, or satyr.
Duration of a set length; period in office of fixed length.
(computing) A terminal emulator, a program that emulates a video terminal.
(of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
(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.
(archaic) A menstrual period.
* 1660 , (Samuel Pepys), Diary
(nautical) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
To phrase a certain way, especially with an unusual wording.
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As nouns the difference between accord and term
is that accord is agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action while term is term.As a verb accord
is (lb) to make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.accord
English
Noun
(en noun)- These all continued with one accord in prayer.
- a mediator of an accord and peace between them
- Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays.
- the accord of light and shade in painting
- (Blackstone)
- The Geneva Accord of 1954 ended the French-Indochinese War.
- Nobody told me to do it. I did it of my own accord .
- That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap.
Synonyms
* (concurrence of opinion) consent, assent * (international agreement) treatyDerived terms
* of its own accord, of one's own accord * with one accordVerb
(en verb)Derived terms
* accord with * accordance * according * accordingly * accordment * defence accord ----term
English
(wikipedia term)Noun
(en noun)- Corruption is a reciprocal to generation, and they two are as nature's two terms , or boundaries.
- A line is the term''' of a superficies, and a superficies is the '''term of a solid.
- "Algorithm" is a term used in computer science.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.
- The subject and predicate of a proposition are, after Aristotle, together called its terms or extremes.
- 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.
Derived terms
{{der3, at term , blanket term , collective term , come to terms , long-term , midterm , short-term , term limit , term logic , term of art , terms and conditions , umbrella term}}See also
* idiom * lexeme * listeme * wordVerb
(en verb)The Evolution of Eyeglasses, passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.}}