term vs time

term

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

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

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

  • To terminate one's employment 

time

noun
  • The hour of childbirth. 

  • The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration. 

  • The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events. 

  • The end of someone's life, conceived by the speaker as having been predestined. 

  • A numerical indication of a particular moment. 

  • A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive). 

  • How much of a day has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device. 

  • An instance or occurrence. 

  • A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension. 

  • A quantity of availability of duration. 

  • The measurement under some system of region of day or moment. 

  • The serving of a prison sentence. 

  • An era; (with the, sometimes in plural) the current era, the current state of affairs. 

  • Ratio of comparison. 

  • The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division. 

  • Closing time. 

  • Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play. 

  • A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day. 

  • A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression. 

  • An experience. 

  • Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy. 

verb
  • To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of. 

  • To choose when something begins or how long it lasts. 

  • To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement. 

  • To measure, as in music or harmony. 

intj
  • The umpire's call in prizefights, etc. 

  • Reminder by the umpire for the players to continue playing after their pause. 

  • A call by a bartender to warn patrons that the establishment is closing and no more drinks will be served. 

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