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Term vs Entry - What's the difference?

term | entry |

As nouns the difference between term and entry

is that term is limitation, restriction or regulation while entry is (uncountable) the act of entering.

As a verb term

is to phrase a certain way, especially with an unusual wording.

term

English

(wikipedia term)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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
    • Corruption is a reciprocal to generation, and they two are as nature's two terms , or boundaries.
  • (geometry) A point, line, or superficies that limits.
    • A line is the term''' of a superficies, and a superficies is the '''term of a solid.
  • A word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge.
    • "Algorithm" is a term used in computer science.
  • Relations among people.
  • * , chapter=22
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.
  • 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
    • The subject and predicate of a proposition are, after Aristotle, together called its terms or extremes.
  • (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
    • 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.
  • (nautical) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.

    • 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}}

    Related terms

    * terminal * terminate

    See also

    * idiom * lexeme * listeme * word

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To phrase a certain way, especially with an unusual wording.
  • *
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= 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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    entry

    English

    (wikipedia entry)

    Alternative forms

    * entery (chiefly archaic)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The act of entering.
  • (uncountable) Permission to enter.
    • entry for children only if accompanied by an adult
  • A doorway that provides a means of entering a building.
  • A small room immediately inside the front door of a house or other building, often having an access to a stairway and leading on to other rooms
  • A small group formed within a church, especially Episcopal, for simple dinner and fellowship, and to help facilitate new friendships
  • An item in a list, such as an article in a dictionary or encyclopedia; a record made in a log, diary or anything similarly organized; (computing) a datum in a database.
    • What does the entry for 2 August 2005 say?
  • (linear algebra) A term at any position in a matrix.
    • The entry in the second row and first column of this matrix is 6.
  • The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure licence to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods.

    • Usage notes

    Ambiguity Prevention * Correct: entry for children * Not: entry to children as this means that you are entering TO (get to) a child. It is incorrect.

    Synonyms

    * (act of entering ): access, entering, entrance * (permission to enter ): access, admission * (doorway that provides a means of entering a building ): entrance, ingang, way in (British) * (room just inside the front door of a building ): entrance hall, foyer, hall, vestibule, ingang * (group within a church ): * (article in a dictionary or encyclopedia ): article * (record in a log ): record * (term in a matrix ): element * (item of data in a database ):

    Antonyms

    * (act of entering ): departure, exit, exiting, leaving * (doorway that provides a means of entering a building ): exit, way out (British)

    Related terms

    (terms related to entry) * enter * entrance

    Derived terms

    (terms derived from entry) * door entry system * entryway * no entry