term vs word

term

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

  • To terminate one's employment 

adj
  • Born or delivered at term. 

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. 

word

verb
  • To say or write (something) using particular words; to phrase (something). 

  • To conjure with a word. 

  • To ply or overpower with words. 

intj
  • Truth, indeed, that is the truth! The shortened form of the statement "My word is my bond." 

  • An abbreviated form of word up; a statement of the acknowledgment of fact with a hint of nonchalant approval. 

noun
  • An order; a request or instruction; an expression of will. 

  • A unit of text equivalent to five characters and one space. 

  • A sequence of letters, characters, or sounds, considered as a discrete entity, though it does not necessarily belong to a language or have a meaning 

  • The smallest discrete unit of spoken language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more phonemes and one or more morphemes 

  • The fact or act of speaking, as opposed to taking action. . 

  • A minor reprimand. 

  • Communication from God; the message of the Christian gospel; the Bible, Scripture. 

  • News; tidings 

  • A fixed-size group of bits handled as a unit by a machine and which can be stored in or retrieved from a typical register (so that it has the same size as such a register). 

  • A watchword or rallying cry, a verbal signal (even when consisting of multiple words). 

  • A brief discussion or conversation. 

  • A promise; an oath or guarantee. 

  • See words. 

  • The smallest discrete unit of written language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more letters or symbols and one or more morphemes 

  • A discrete, meaningful unit of language approved by an authority or native speaker (compare non-word). 

  • The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.) 

  • A finite string that is not a command or operator. 

  • A group element, expressed as a product of group elements. 

  • Logos, Christ. 

  • Something that someone said; a comment, utterance; speech. 

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