arrest vs term

arrest

verb
  • To stop or slow (a process, course etc.). 

  • To catch the attention of. 

  • To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody. 

  • To undergo cardiac arrest. 

noun
  • The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators. 

  • A device to physically arrest motion. 

  • The condition of being stopped, standstill. 

  • A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something. 

  • A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse 

  • The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc. 

  • A confinement, detention, as after an arrest. 

term

verb
  • To terminate one's employment 

  • To phrase a certain way; to name or call. 

noun
  • A computer program that emulates a physical terminal. 

  • Specifically, the conditions in a legal contract that specify the price and also how and when payment must be made. 

  • A chronological limitation or restriction, a limited timespan. 

  • The time during which legal courts are open. 

  • Certain days on which rent is paid. 

  • Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length. 

  • The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice. 

  • Relations among people. 

  • That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus. 

  • A word or phrase (e.g., noun phrase, verb phrase, open compound), especially one from a specialised area of knowledge; a name for a concept. 

  • Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table. 

  • The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force. 

  • A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail. 

  • 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. 

  • A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal. 

  • With respect to a pregnancy, the period during which birth usually happens (approximately 40 weeks from conception). 

  • One whose employment has been terminated 

  • Part of a year, especially one of the divisions of an academic year. 

  • Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract. 

adj
  • Born or delivered at term. 

How often have the words arrest and term occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )