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Terms vs Upstir - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between terms and upstir

is that terms is while upstir is (obsolete) commotion; disturbance, tumult.

As a verb upstir is

disturb, cause a commotion, stir up.

terms

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Noun

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    upstir

    English

    Noun

  • (obsolete) commotion; disturbance, tumult
    • (Sir John Cheke)
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1983 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Marcus Garvey, Robert Hill , title=The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Univ. of Calif. Press , isbn=9780520050914 , page=390 , passage=The world is now in an upstir because this association is about to hold its great convention in New York City }}
  • :* {{quote-web
    • , date=2006-12-20 , year= , first= , last= , author=Michael Arrington , quotee=Fredrik , authorlink= , title=I Wish Google Could Buy AllofMP3 , site=TechCrunch citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=2012-06-03 , passage=Needless to say, this has caused quite an upstir with people … }}

    Verb

  • disturb, cause a commotion, stir up
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1876 , year_published=2005 , edition=digitized , editor= , author=Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth , title=Ishmael In the Depths , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=And conscience to upstir him ... }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1994 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author= , title=The Arizona Quarterly: Vol 50 , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Univ. of Arizona , isbn= , page=100 , passage=… upstirring of the modern democrat against the aristocrat ... }}

    References

    (Webster 1913)