Termed vs Teemed - What's the difference?
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(term)
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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* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)
, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (teem)
To be stocked to overflowing.
* Sir Walter Scott
To be prolific; to abound.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.
* Shakespeare
(archaic) To empty.
* 1913 ,
*:“Are you sure they’re good lodgings?” she asked.
*:“Yes—yes. Only—it’s a winder when you have to pour your own tea out—an’ nobody to grouse if you team it in your saucer and sup it up. It somehow takes a’ the taste out of it.”
To pour (especially with rain)
To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mould, with molten metal.
As verbs the difference between termed and teemed
is that termed is (term) while teemed is (teem).termed
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(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.}}
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) , whence also team.Verb
(en verb)- his mind teeming with schemes of future deceit to cover former villainy
Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins.}}
- If she must teem , / Create her child of spleen.