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Term is a related term of siege.


As nouns the difference between term and siege

is that term is term while siege is .

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}}

    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.}}

    siege

    English

    (wikipedia siege)

    Alternative forms

    * syege

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) A seat.
  • #(label) A seat, especially as used by someone of importance or authority.
  • #*.
  • #*:Now Merlyn said kyng Arthur / goo thow and aspye me in al this land l knyghtes whiche ben of most prowesse & worship / within short tyme merlyn had founde suche kny?tesThenne the Bisshop of Caunterbury was fette and he blessid the syeges' with grete Royalte and deuoycyon / and there sette the viij and xx knyghtes in her ' syeges
  • #*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queen) , II.vii:
  • #*:To th'vpper part, where was aduaunced hye / A stately siege of soueraigne maiestye; / And thereon sat a woman gorgeous gay.
  • #(label) An ecclesiastical see.
  • #(label) The place where one has his seat; a home, residence, domain, empire.
  • #The seat of a heron while looking out for prey; a flock of heron.
  • #(label) A privy or lavatory.
  • #(label) The anus; the rectum.
  • #*1646 , Sir (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , III.17:
  • #*:Another ground were certain holes or cavities observable about the siege ; which being perceived in males, made some conceive there might be also a feminine nature in them.
  • #(label) Excrements, stool, fecal matter.
  • #*1610 , (The Tempest) , by (William Shakespeare), act 2 scene 2
  • #*:Thou art very Trinculo indeed! How cam'st thou / to be the siege of this moon-calf? Can he vent Trinculos?
  • #(label) Rank; grade; station; estimation.
  • #*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • #*:I fetch my life and being / From men of royal siege .
  • #(label) The floor of a glass-furnace.
  • #(label) A workman's bench.
  • #:(Knight)
  • (label) Military action.
  • #A prolonged military assault or a blockade of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition.
  • #*1748 , (David Hume), Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, Section 3 §5:
  • #*:The Peloponnesian war is a proper subject for history, the siege of Athens for an epic poem, and the death of Alcibiades for a tragedy.
  • #(label) A period of struggle or difficulty, especially from illness.
  • #(label) A prolonged assault or attack.
  • #*{{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 19, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= England 1-0 Ukraine , passage=But once again Hodgson's men found a way to get the result they required and there is a real air of respectability about their campaign even though they had to survive a first-half siege from a Ukraine side desperate for the win they needed to progress.}}

    Derived terms

    *

    Verb

    (sieg)
  • To assault a blockade of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition; to besiege.