name vs term

name

verb
  • To give a name to. 

  • To designate for a role. 

  • To initiate a process to temporarily remove a member of parliament who is breaking the rules of conduct. 

  • To identify as relevant or important 

  • To mention, specify. 

  • To publicly implicate by name. 

  • To disclose the name of. 

noun
  • Those of a certain name; a race; a family. 

  • Authority. 

  • An investor in Lloyds of London bearing unlimited liability. 

  • An abusive or insulting epithet. 

  • A person (or legal person). 

  • Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking. 

  • Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing. 

  • A unique identifier, generally a string of characters. 

  • Reputation. 

term

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

  • To terminate one's employment 

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 name and term occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )