Policy vs Term - What's the difference?
policy | term |
(obsolete) The art of governance; political science.
* a. 1616 , (William Shakespeare), Henry V , I.1:
(obsolete) A state; a polity.
(obsolete) A set political system; civil administration.
(obsolete) A trick; a stratagem.
* a. 1594 , (William Shakespeare), Titus Andronicus :
A principle of behaviour, conduct etc. thought to be desirable or necessary, especially as formally expressed by a government or other authoritative body.
Wise or advantageous conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness.
* 1813 , Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice , Modern Library Edition (1995), page 140:
* Fuller
(now, rare) Specifically, political shrewdness or (formerly) cunning; statecraft.
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.25:
(Scotland, now, chiefly, in the plural) The grounds of a large country house.
* 1955 , (Robin Jenkins), The Cone-Gatherers , Canongate 2012, page 36:
(obsolete) Motive; object; inducement.
* Sir Philip Sidney
To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.
* Francis Bacon
A contract of insurance
* Your insurance policy covers fire and theft only.
(obsolete) An illegal daily lottery in late nineteenth and early twentieth century USA on numbers drawn from a lottery wheel (no plural )
A number pool lottery
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 policy and term
is that policy is the art of governance; political science while term is limitation, restriction or regulation.As verbs the difference between policy and term
is that policy is to regulate by laws; to reduce to order while term is to phrase a certain way, especially with an unusual wording.policy
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) policie, from . Compare police.Noun
(policies)- List his discourse of Warre; and you shall heare / A fearefull Battaile rendred you in Musique. / Turne him to any Cause of Pollicy , / The Gordian Knot of it he will vnloose, / Familiar as his Garter
- 'Tis pollicie , and stratageme must doe / That you affect, and so must you resolue, / That what you cannot as you would atcheiue, / You must perforce accomplish as you may.
- The Communist Party has a policy of returning power to the workers.
- These bitter accusations might have been suppressed, had I with greater policy concealed my struggles, and flattered you
- The very policy of a hostess, finding his purse so far above his clothes, did detect him.
- Whether he believed himself a god, or only took on the attributes of divinity from motives of policy , is a question for the psychologist, since the historical evidence is indecisive.
- Next morning was so splendid that as he walked through the policies towards the mansion house despair itself was lulled.
- What policy have you to bestow a benefit where it is counted an injury?
Derived terms
* policied * policymaker * policy shift * endowment policy * fiscal policy * honesty is the best policy * monetary policy * policy mixVerb
- Policying of cities.''
Etymology 2
From (etyl) police, from (etyl) polizza, fromNoun
(policies)Synonyms
* (number pool) policy racketDerived terms
* policyholderExternal links
* (wikipedia)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.}}