Term vs Siege - What's the difference?
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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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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (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= To assault a blockade of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition; to besiege.
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)- 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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English
(wikipedia siege)Alternative forms
* syegeNoun
(en noun)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.}}