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TERMS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The amount of money needed to purchase something
Example:
how much is the damage?
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("terms" is a kind of...):
cost (the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "terms"):
asking price; selling price (the price at which something is offered for sale)
bid price ((stock market) the price at which a broker is willing to buy a certain security)
closing price ((stock market) the price of the last transaction completed during a day's trading session)
factory price (price charged for goods picked up at the factory)
highway robbery (an exorbitant price)
purchase price (the price at which something is actually purchased)
cash price; spot price (the current delivery price of a commodity traded in the spot market)
support level ((stock market) the price at which a certain security becomes attractive to investors)
valuation (assessed price)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Status with respect to the relations between people or groups
Example:
on a friendly footing
Synonyms:
footing; terms
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("terms" is a kind of...):
position; status (the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb term
Context examples:
The terminology subset that includes terms relevant to the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) variables.
(CDISC Variable Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)
I found them on the most friendly terms when I arrived.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
There were no significant differences between the groups in terms of improvement in signs of dry eye.
(Omega-3s from fish oil supplements no better than placebo for dry eye, National Institutes of Health)
In terms of grading, they are well or moderately differentiated adenocarcinomas. — 2002
(Barrett Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
The state of a person’s health in terms of the nutrients in his or her diet.
(Nutritional status, NCI Dictionary)
Both terms mean that a person's weight is greater than what's considered healthy for his or her height.
(Obesity, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
In terms of cells, having variation in the size and shape of cells or their nuclei.
(Pleomorphic, NCI Dictionary)
Then we are on very unequal terms, for I understand you perfectly well.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Consisting of two (e.g., units, components, elements, terms, possibilities) or based on two.
(Binary, NCI Thesaurus)
"As diabetes is exploding worldwide in terms of its incidence, I think this becomes more important as we have an aging population with diabetes," he said.
(Protein Discovery Could Help Heal Bones in Diabetics, VOA)
