Term vs Spirit - 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.
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, 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= The undying essence of a human; the soul.
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, title= * 1967 , MacCormack, Woman Times Seven
A supernatural being, often but not exclusively without physical form; ghost, fairy, angel.
* John Locke
Enthusiasm.
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, title= The manner or style of something.
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, passage=No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or
* Alexander Pope
(usually, in the plural) A volatile liquid, such as alcohol. The plural form spirits is a generic term for distilled alcoholic beverages.
Energy; ardour.
* Fuller
One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or temper.
* Dryden
Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state; often in the plural.
* South
(obsolete) Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.
* Spenser
* Spenser
(obsolete) A rough breathing; an aspirate, such as the letter h ; also, a mark denoting aspiration.
* Ben Jonson
Intent; real meaning; opposed to the letter, or formal statement.
(alchemy, obsolete) Any of the four substances: sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, and arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment).
* Chaucer
(dyeing) stannic chloride
To carry off, especially in haste, secrecy, or mystery.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 8, author=Dave Kehr, title=Buñuel at His Wildest, in Circulation Again, work=New York Times
, passage=God does not make an appearance, but the Devil (Ms. Pinal) emphatically does: first in the guise of a schoolgirl who tries to lure Simon down with the sight of her shapely legs; then as a bearded but blatantly female Jesus carrying a lamb; and finally as a stylishly coiffed woman who succeeds in spiriting Simon off, by means of a jet, to a Manhattan discotheque — Buñuel’s persuasive idea of hell.}}
* Willis
To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit; sometimes followed by up .
* Jonathan Swift
As nouns the difference between term and spirit
is that term is term while spirit is spirit (alcohol).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
Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=[…] St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit .}}
- a triumph of the spirit over the flesh.
- A wandering spirit haunts the island.
- Whilst young, preserve his tender mind from all impressions of spirits and goblins in the dark.
Sunderland 2-2 West Brom, passage=The result may not quite give the Wearsiders a sweet ending to what has been a sour week, following allegations of sexual assault and drug possession against defender Titus Bramble, but it does at least demonstrate that their spirit remains strong in the face of adversity.}}
- A perfect judge will read each work of wit / With the same spirit that its author writ.
- "Write it then, quickly," replied Bede; and summoning all his spirits together, like the last blaze of a candle going out, he indited it, and expired.
- a ruling spirit'''; a schismatic '''spirit
- Such spirits as he desired to please, such would I choose for my judges.
- to be cheerful, or in good spirits'''; to be down-hearted, or in bad '''spirits
- God has made a spirit' of building succeed a ' spirit of pulling down.
- For, else he sure had left not one alive, / But all, in his Revenge, of Spirit would deprive.
- The mild air, with season moderate, / Gently attempered, and disposed so well, / That still it breathed forth sweet spirit .
- Be it a letter or spirit , we have great use for it.
- the spirit of an enterprise, or of a document
- the four spirits and the bodies seven
Derived terms
(Derived terms) * community spirit * free spirit * Holy Spirit * in good spirits * in spirit (adverb) * in the spirit it was meant (idiom) * kindred spirit * methlyated spirit * moving spirit * party spirit * petroleum spirit * poor in spirit * proof spirit * pyroacetic spirit * rectified spirit * shad-spirit * spiritdom * spirited * spiriten * spirit-filled * spiritful * spirithood * spiritish * spiritless * spiritlike * spiritling * spiritly * spiritness * spiritous * spiritship * spiritsome * spiritual * spiritually * spirituality * spirit away (verb) * spirit gum * spirit lamp * spirit level * spirit off * spirit of hartshorn * spirit of salt * spirit of the law * spirit of turpentine * spirit of vitriol * spirit of wine * spirit rapper/spirit rapping * spirit stove * spirit world * spirit writing * surgical spirit * team spirit * that's the spirit * the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak * white spirit * wood spirit * zombie spirit (spirit)See also
* ghost * soulVerb
(en verb)citation
- I felt as if I had been spirited into some castle of antiquity.
- Civil dissensions often spirit the ambition of private men.
- Many officers and private men spirit up and assist those obstinate people to continue in their rebellion.