term [ tə:m] n.期；学期；条件；词
come to terms with 达成协议；妥协，让步
in terms of 根据；以…的措词
keep on good terms 保持友好关系
keep terms with sb. 同某人交往
make terms 达成协议
in terms of 依据，按照；用...措词
in terms of
依据，按照；用...措词
term [tə:m] n.学期,期限,术语,条款项
term [tə:m] 项
terms 付款条件
长期共存、互相监督、肝胆相照、荣辱与共 "long-term coexistence, mutual supervision, sincere treatment with each other and the sharing of weal or woe "
换届选举 election at expiration of office terms
眼前利益服从长远利益,局部利益服从整体利益,个人和集体利益服从国家利益
subordinate immediate interests to long-term interests, partial interests to overall interests and the interests of individuals and collectives to those of the state
因地制宜,因时制宜,因事制宜,因人制宜 suit our measures to differing conditions in terms of locality, time, issue and persons involved
优惠贷款 loans on favorable terms
远景规划 perspective long-term plan
远景计划 long-term development targets
中日友好四项原则: 和平友好,平等互利,互相信赖,长期稳定 The four principles of Sino-Japanese friendship: peace and friendship, equality and mutual benefit, mutual trust, and long-term stability
Standard Glossary of Terms Relating to Chimneys, Vents, and Heat-Producing Appliances
有关烟囱、通风孔和热处理设备的术语表 2003版
in terms of 依据；用……措辞。
educational system 学制
academic year 学年
semester 学期（美）
term 学期 （英）
二十四节气 The 24 Solar Terms
立春 Spring begins.
雨水 The rains.
惊蛰 Insects awaken.
春分 Vernal Equinox
清明 Clear and bright.
谷雨 Grain rain.
立夏 Summer begins.
小满 Grain buds.
芒种 Grain in ear.
夏至 Summer solstice.
小暑 Slight heat.
大暑 Great heat.
立秋 Autumn begins.
处暑 Stopping the heat.
白露 White dews.
秋分 Autumn Equinox.
寒露 Cold dews.
霜降 Hoar-frost falls.
立冬 Winter begins.
小雪 Light snow.
大雪 Heavy snow.
冬至 Winter Solstice.
小寒 Slight cold.
大寒 Great cold.
payment terms 付款方式
trade terms/clause 贸易条款
contract terms (or contract clause) 合同条款
contract period (or contract term) 合同期限
a long-term contract 长期合同
a short-term contract 短期合同
contractual terms & conditions 合同条款和条件
come to terms 达成协议
Mid-term（期中考试）：学期中间举行的考试。
短训班 short-term training course
学期 (school)term; semester
land use term 土地使用期
长期趋势 long term trend
Mid-term（期中考试）：学期中间举行的考试。
term 学期 （英）
credit terms 信贷条款
long-term memory 长期记忆
payment terms 支付条款
short-term memory 短期记忆
注册有效期 The Term Of Validity
定期付款 payment on term
付款条件: 30日后全额付现, 10日后付现打2%折扣, 过期后付款时, 加上利率为6%的利息。
Terms, net cash 30 days, or, less 2% 10 days. Interest charged at the rate of 6% after maturity.
付款条件: 月底后10日后付现2%折扣, 现在付现3%折扣, 否则, 全额付现。
Terms: 2%, 10 days E.O.M., or 3% cash, otherwise strictly net.
我们约定分期付款而将该机械组给贵公司使用。我们希望贵公司对此协议能严格履行。
As the machine was hired to you on the understanding that regular payments would be made, we must ask that in future the terms of the afreement should be strictly adhered to.
agreement officer on annual leave terms
按年假条款雇用的合约公务员
agreement terms
合约条款
agreement terms of appointment
合约聘用制
annual leave terms
年假条款
appointment on expatriate terms
按外籍雇员条款聘用
appointment on local terms
按本地雇员条款聘用
Common Terms of Appointment and Conditions of Service [Common Terms]
划一聘用条款和服务条件〔划一条款〕
Consultation document on Civil Service Terms of Appointment and Conditions of Service
《公务员聘用及服务条件谘询文件》
contract terms
合约条款
day-to-day terms
按日聘用条款
expatriate terms
外籍雇员条款
current term of office 现届任期
staggering terms of office 交错任期
term of office 任期
terms of reference 职权；职责范围
current maturity of long term debt 本年内到期的长期负债
current term net loss 本期净损失
current term net profit or loss 本期净损益
intermediate term credit 中期信贷
Long-term 长期的
long-term assets 长期资产
long-term contract 长期合同
long-term debts 长期债务
long-term investment 长期投资
long-term liability 长期负债
long-term stability 长期稳定
medium term funds 中期债券
medium term capital 中期资本
medium term debt 中期债务
medium term loan 中期贷款
negotiating terms 买卖谈判小组
short term assets 短期资产
short term bond 短期债券
short term credit 短期信贷
short term debt 短期债务
short term investment 短期投资
short term liability 短期负债
Term 条款，项目，条件，期
term bond 定期债券
term loan 定期贷款
term mortgage 定期抵押
term share 定期股票
terms of acquisition agreement 收购协议条款
terms of contract 合同条款
unacceptable terms 不可接受条款
yield on long term government bond 长期政府债券收益
Well, one can always consult a man and ask him: "Would you like your head cut off tomorrow?" and after he has said: "I would rather not", cut it off. Consultation is a vagues and elastic term.
是的，什么时候都可以跟一个人商量，问他：“你愿意明天被砍头吗？”接着，在他说了“我不愿意”之后，砍掉他的脑袋。磋商是个含糊的带弹性的词。
The survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called 'natural selection', or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.
我在这里一直想要以机械论术语表达的适者生存，就是达尔文先生说过的“自然选择”，或者说是优越种族在生存斗争中的保存。
My teacher told me not to give up; I can still pass if I study hard for the final-term exam.
老师要我不要放弃，只要努力我仍可通过期终考试。
If he had studied hard last term, he would not have failed in the final test.
要是上学期努力, 那大考他就不会不及格了。
In this paragraph the writer defined the term.
作者在这一段中解释了这个术语。
The government is confident of winning the next term of office.
政府相信能够赢得下届选举。
The essay is about the improper downloading of term papers.
这篇文章是关于不正当下载学期论文的情况。
The author of this article points out the problem of illicit downloading of term papers by students.
本文章的作者指出了学生非法下载学期论文的问题。
Faking term papers is nothing new, and stolen intellectual property has been marketed for years.
抄袭学期论文不是什么新鲜事，而多年来人们也一直在用偷盗来的知识产权做交易。
Some sites, such as Term Paper Emporium and Absolutely Free: Online Essays offer course papers for free.
有些网址，如"学期论文大卖场"和"绝对免费：网上论文"，免费提供课程论文。
That student used the Internet as a reference for his term paper.
那学生用因特网查找参考资料撰写学期论文。
The term “mankind” embraces men, women and children.
“人类” 一词的含义包括男人、女人和儿童。
The findings show in general terms that contraction of the brain begins sooner in people in the country than in the towns.
研究结果表明在农村的人大脑收缩基本上比城市里的人要早。
Some even argue plausibly that this weakness may be irremediable : in any society that, like a capitalist society, seeks to become ever wealthier in material terms disproportionate rewards are bound to flow to the people who are instrumental in producing the increase in its wealth.
有些人甚至看似事理地认为这一弱点无可补救：在任何一个在物质财富方面追求更加富裕的社会中，比如说资本主义社会，比例不均衡的回报肯定要流向那些在创造财富增长的过程中提供设备的人。
We will all have a course in ancient history this term.
这个学期我们都有一门古代史课程。
I don't know the exact terms of the contract.
我不知道合同的正确条款。
I got good grades last term.
上学期，我的分数很高。
This term will begin on March 1st.
这个学期三月一日开始。
This term will begin on September 7th.
这个学期将于九月七号开始。
Are there any exams at the end of this term?
这个学期期末有考试吗？
Since our contract is near its term we must negotiate a new one.
由于我们的合同快到期了，我们必须谈判新的合约。
我们很熟，互相直呼其名。
We're on a first name basis. *表示“之间关系好，很亲密”。
We're on first name terms.
We must stress that these payment terms are very important to us.
我们必须强调这些付款条件对我们很重要。
This offer remains open until 10th February, beyond which date the terms and prices should be negotiated anew.
此盘有效期至2月10日，超过此期限条件及价格需重新协商。
Would you please read the draft contract and make your moments about the terms?
请仔细阅读合同草案，并就合同各条款提出你的看法好吗？
We have agreed on all terms in the contract. Shall we sign it next week?
我们对合同各项条款全无异议，下周签合同如何？
We'll ship our goods in accordance with the terms of the contract.
我们将按合同条款交货。
Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives.
成功是一个相关名词，他会给你带来很多不相关的亲戚（联系）。
We must stress that these payment terms are very important to us.
我们必须强调这些付款条件对我们很重要。
Would you please read the draft contract and make your comments about the terms?
请仔细阅读合同草案，并就合同各条款提出你的看法好吗？
We have agreed on all terms in the contract. Shall we sign it next week?
我们对合同各项条款全无异议，下周签合同如何？
I hope no questions about the terms.
我看合同的条款没有什么问题了。
We can't accept payment on deferred terms.
我们不能接受延期付款。
payment on terms 定期付款
Now we have settled the terms of payment.
现在我们已经谈妥了付款条件。
Shall we have a talk about terms of payment today?
我们今天谈谈付款条件怎么样？
This is the normal terms of payment in international business.
这是国际贸易中惯用的付款方式。
We can't accept any other terms of payment.
我们不能接受其他的付款条件。
If you can't be more flexible, we won't accept your terms of payment.
如果你们不能灵活些，我们将不接受此种付款方式。
payment terms 支付条件，付款方式
Any departure from the terms and conditions of the contract must be advised in writing.
任何与合同条款相背离的地方，都应以书面形式通知。
Other special terms will be listed bellows.
甲、乙双方如有特殊约定将在下列另行约定。
@@@ 就...来说/而言
as ... go(es) 就...来说
as far as 1.远到..., 直到...
2.就...而言, 从...来看; 尽...所能
by and large 总的来说, 一般来说
in general 通常, 一般而言; 大体上
in short 简而言之
in terms of ... 从...立场; 就...而言
on the part of 就...而言; 代表...;
由...做出的
on the whole 总之, 总的来说
when it comes to 一谈到...; 就...而论
with respect to 就...而言; 在...方面
@@@ 看法, 观点, 意见
as far as 1.远到..., 直到...
2.就...而言, 从...来看; 尽...所能
as far as I'm concerned 依我看
come to terms 达成协议; 达成一致意见
for one's sake & for the sake of sb. 看在...的份上; 为了...的缘故
from one's standpoint 从...的观点来看
get across 使观点被理解, 接受
have a bias towards 对...持偏见
hold against 因某事对某人抱有意见
in one's opinion 依某人的看法
keep to oneself 不与他人交往; 不向他人透露自己的意见和想法
look down on sb./sth. 轻视, 看不起
look on the bright side of things 对事物持乐观态度
outlook on 对...的看法
point of view 观点; 见地
run into 1.偶然碰见
2.撞上
3.遭遇(危险、困难等)
speak one's mind 直抒己见
take a dim view of sth. 不赞成..., 对...持怀疑态度; 对...持悲观态度
think of ... as ... 把...看作是, 以为...是
throw (sth.) out 1.拒不接受意见、建议等
2.扔掉
3.发出
treat ... as 把...待如; 把...看作
viewed as 被看作是
come to terms 达成协议
I was fooled by the terms. 我被这些名词搞糊涂了.
be on good terms with sb． 与某人友好
- play favorites with...对……有偏心眼
The girl isn't on good terms with her parents. They play favorites with her little brother.
The buyer suggested D/A as the terms of payment, but the seller was unwilling to make any exception.
买方建议用承兑交单作为付款方式，但卖方不愿例外。
We still intend to use letter of credit as the term of payment.
我们仍然想用信用证付款方式。
Our terms of payment is confirmed and irrevocable letter of credit.
我们的付款条件是保兑的不可撤消的信用证。
We can't accept payment on deferred terms.
我们不能接受延期付款。
Now we have settled the terms of payment.
现在我们已经谈妥了付款条件。
Shall we have a talk about terms of payment today?
我们今天谈谈付款条件怎么样？
This is the normal terms of payment in international business.
这是国际贸易中惯用的付款方式。
We can't accept any other terms of payment.
我们不能接受其他的付款条件。
If you can't be more flexible, we won't accept your terms of payment.
如果你们不能灵活些，我们将不接受此种付款方式。
We'll agree to change the terms of payment from L/C at sight to D/P at sight.
我们同意将即期信用证付款方式改为即期付款交单。
We can live with the other terms, but the delivery date is too soon.
我们可以同意其它条件，但发货日期还是太紧了。
Bill of lading marked notify: buyer,“Freight Prepaid”“Liner terms”“received for shipment” B/L not acceptable
提单注明通知买方，“运费预付”按“班轮条件”，“备运提单”不接受
We hereby engage with you that all drafts drawn under and in compliance with the terms of this credit will be duly honored
我行保证及时对所有根据本信用证开具、并与其条款相符的汇票兑付
We undertake that drafts drawn and presented in conformity with the terms of this credit will be duly honoured
开具并交出的汇票，如与本证的条款相符，我行保证依时付款
We hereby engage with the drawers, endorsers and bona-fide holders of draft（s） drawn under and in compliance with the terms of the credit that such draft（s） shall be duly honoured on due presentation and delivery of documents as specified （if drawn and negotiated with in the validity date of this credit）
凡根据本证开具与本证条款相符的汇票，并能按时提示和交出本证规定的单据，我行保证对出票人、背书人和善意持有人承担付款责任（须在本证有效期内开具汇票并议付）
Provided such drafts are drawn and presented in accordance with the terms of this credit, we hereby engage with the drawers, endorsors and bona-fide holders that the said drafts shall be duly honoured on presentation
凡根据本证的条款开具并提示汇票，我们担保对其出票人、背书人和善意持有人在交单时承兑付款
We hereby undertake to honour all drafts drawn in accordance with the terms of this credit
所有按照本条款开具的汇票，我行保证兑付
in reimbursement draw your own sight drafts in sterling on…Bank and forward them to our London Office, accompanied by your certificate that all terms of this letter of credit have been complied with
偿付办法，由你行开出英镑即期汇票向……银行支取。在寄送汇票给我伦敦办事处时，应随附你行的证明，声明本证的全部条款已经履行
negotiating bank may claim reimbursement by T.T. on the…bank certifying that the credit terms have been complied with
议付行须证明本证条款已旅行，并按电汇条款向……银行索回货款
negotiating bank are authorized to reimburse themselves to amount of their negotiation by redrawing by airmail at sight on…bank attaching to the reimbursement draft their certificate stating that all terms of the credit have been complied with and that the original and duplicate drafts and documents have been forwarded to us by consecutive airmail
议付行用航邮向……银行重开一份即期汇票索取议付条款。索偿汇票须附上证明，声明本证所有条款已履行，单据的正副本已由连续航次寄交我行。
Please renew your offer on the same terms and conditions.
请按同样条件恢复报盘。
Could you tell me which kind of payment terms you'll choose?
能否告知你们将采用哪种付款方式？
Could you please send us a catalog of your rubber boots together with terms of payment?
你能给我们寄来一份胶靴的目录，连同告诉我们付款方式吗？
We believe in long-term cooperation with China because we view the future as bright.
我们相信与中国长期合作的前途是光明的。
If we come to terms, we'll appoint you as our agent.
如果达成协议，我们将指定你为我方的代理。
I hope we can see eye to eye about the other terms of the agency then.
我希望到那时候我们能在代理协议的其他条款上能取得一致意见。
We wonder whether we may conclude a long term agency contract with you.
我们不知道能否与你方达成长期代理合约。
We can repeat the contract on the same terms.
我们可以按同样条件再订一个合同。
May I refer you to Article 5 of the General Terms and Conditions of the contract?
请您看看合同一般条款的第五条。
Payment terms are important in a contract too, aren't they?
合同中的付款条件也很重要，对吗？
We ship our goods in accordance with the terms of the contract.
我们按合同条款交货。
All terms and conditions will be the same as those in your previous contract number C70064.
所有条款与我们过去签的第C70064号合同规定的各项条款相同。
We always carry out the terms o four contract to the letter and stand by what we say.
我们坚持重合同，守信用。
May I ask what exactly insurance covers according to your usual C.I.F terms?
请问根据你们常用的CIF价格条件，所保的究竟包括哪些险别？
You should study not only the benefits but also the terms and limitations of an insurance agreement that appears best suited to your needs.
你不仅要研究各种保险所标明的给予保险人的赔偿费用，还要研究它的条件与限制，然后选出最适合你需要的一种。
In the insurance business, the term "average" simply means "loss" in most cases.
在保险业中“average”一词一般是“海损”的意思。
Generally, the term "all marine risks" is liable to be misinterpreted and its use should be avoided in L/C.
一般地，“一切海洋运输货物险”容易被误解，应该避免在信用证中使用。
爱称 [ài chēng] /term of endearment/pet name/diminutive/
白露 [bái lù] /White Dew (15th solar term)/
梆子腔 [bāng zǐ qiāng] /a general term for local operas in Shangxi, Henan, Hebei, Shandong, etc/the music of such operas/
贬词 [biǎn cí] /derogatory term/expression of censure/
不分彼此 [bù fēn bǐ cǐ] /make no distinction between what's one's own and what's another's/share everything/be on very intimate terms/
不和 [bù hé] /not get along well/be on bad terms/be at odds/discord/
不欢而散 [bù huān ér sàn] /part on bad terms/(of a meeting, etc.) break up in discord/
长期 [cháng qī] /long term/long time/
长期稳定性 [cháng qī wěn dìng xìng] /long term stability/
长远 [cháng yuǎn] /long-term/long-range/
朝鲜 [cháo xiǎn] /Korea/North Korea/geographic term for Korea/
称号 [chēng hào] /(n) name; term of address; title/
词语 [cí yǔ] /words/expressions/terms/
大锅饭 [dà guō fàn] /(n) food made in a large wok in a mess hall/(idiom) a term used to refer to equal treatment/
大妈 [dà mā] /father's elder brother's wife/aunt (affectionate term for an elderly woman)/
待业 [dài yè] /to await job assignment (term used only in mainland China)/
短期 [duǎn qī] /short-term/
短时间 [duǎn shí jiān] /short term/short time/
对头 [duì tóu] /correct/normal/to be on good terms with/on the right track/right/
各位 [gè wèi] /everybody (a term of address)/
规约 [guī yuē] /terms (of an agreement)/
鬼佬 [guǐ lǎo] /(Cant.) Gwailo, a (sometimes derogatory) Cantonese term for Caucasian men/
鬼婆 [guǐ pó] /(Cant.) Gwaipo, a (sometimes derogatory) Cantonese term for Caucasian women/
好说 [hǎo shuō] /(idiom) OK, term used to indicate agreement/(idiom) "you flatter me", polite response to praise/
简言之 [jiǎn yán zhī] /in simple terms/to put things simply/briefly/
开学 [kāi xué] /school opens/new term begins/
老大妈 [lǎo dà mā] /"Madam" (affectionate term for an elderly woman)/
老人家 [lǎo rén jiā] /(n) polite term for old woman or man/
老太婆 [lǎo tài pó] /(n) old woman (often not polite)/(n) term to refer to wife/
连任 [lián rèn] /continue in (a political) office/serve for another term of office/
列车 [liè chē] /train (railway term)/
笼统 [lǒng tǒng] /(in) general (terms)/broadly (speaking)/
幂 [mì] /power (math.term)/
叛变的省份 [pàn biàn de shěng fèn] /renegade province (term PRC uses for Taiwan)/
期 [qī] /a period of time/phase/stage/(used for issue of a periodical, courses of study)/time/term/period/to hope/
卿 [qīng] /(old) minister/(old) term of endearment between spouses/thou (poet.)/
任期 [rèn qī] /term of office/
融洽 [róng qià] /(adj) on good terms with; friendly to each other; harmonious/
擅离职守 [shàn lí zhí shǒu] /AWOL (Absent Without Leave, military term)/
术语 [shù yǔ] /term/terminology/
小鬼 [xiǎo guǐ] /(idiom) an endearing term of address to a child; little demon/
小子 [xiǎo zi ] /(n) boy/(n) an implolite term for a person; bloke/
刑期 [xíng qī] /prison term/
学期 [xué qī] /term/semester/
娅 [yà] /address term between sons-in-law/
要好 [yào hǎo] /be on good terms/be close friends/
一般性 [yī bān xìng] /(in) general (terms)/generalized/
有期徒刑 [yǒu qī tú xíng] /limited term of imprisonment (i.e. anything less than life imprisonment)/
语法术语 [yǔ fǎ shù yǔ] /grammatical term/
雨水 [yǔ shuǐ] /(n) rainwater/(n) Rainwater (one of 24 solar terms)/
总统任期 [zǒng tǒng rèn qī] /presidency/term of office/
Scientists must communicate their message to the public in a compassionate, understandable way — in human terms, not in the language of molecular biology.
科学家必须把他们的意思传达给公众，并且要使用有同情心和通俗易懂的语言，一般人能够明白的语言，而不要使用分子生物学的语言。
The oil price was given another push up this week when Iraq suspended oil exports.
本周伊拉克暂停石油出口，这使油价又一次上扬。
Strengthening economic growth, at the same time as winter grips the northern hemisphere, could push the price higher still in the short term.
强劲的经济增长势头，随着北半球冬季的到来，有可能在短期内使石油价格涨得更高。
The trend was naturally most obvious in those areas of science based especially on a mathematical or laboratory training, and can be illustrated in terms of the development of geology in the United Kingdom.
特别是在以数学和实验室训练为基础的科学领域，这种倾向自然尤为明显，这可以通过英国的地质学发展过程得到证实。
Curiously, some two-and-a-half years and two novels later, my experiment in what the Americans term "downshifting" has turned my tired excuse into an absolute reality.
奇怪的是，大约两年半的时间我写完两部小说后，我这个被美国人称为“放慢生活节奏”的试验，却使我老掉牙的借口变成了现实。
I have been transformed from a passionate advocate of the philosophy of "have it all", preached by Linda Kelsey for the past seven years in the pages of she magazine, into a woman who is happy to settle for a bit of everything.
我已从一个“获得一切”哲学（琳达·凯茜过去七年中在《她》这本杂志所宣扬的）的狂热支持者，变成了一个乐于接受任何东西只要一丁点的女人。
Downshifting — also known in America as "voluntary simplicity" — has, ironically, even bred a new area of what might be termed anti-consumerism.
具有讽刺意味的是，“放慢生活节奏”——在美国也称“自愿简单化”——甚至孕育了一个崭新的、可称之为反消费主义的生活方式。
There are a number of bestselling downshifting self-help books for people who want to simplify their lives; there are newsletters, such as The Tightwad Gazette, that give hundreds of thousands of Americans useful tips on anything from recycling their cling-film to making their own soap; there are even support groups for those who want to achieve the mid-'90s equivalent of dropping out.
对于那些想简单生活的人来说，有许多很畅销的帮你轻松生活的自助书籍；有各种简讯，例如省钱简报，会给美国人提供成千上万条有用的点子去做事，从回收保鲜腊到自制肥皂；甚至还有一些帮助团体，帮人按90年代中期脱离传统社会的人的生活方式去生活。
His colleague, Michael Beer, says that far too many companies have applied re-engineering in a mechanistic fashion, chopping out costs without giving sufficient thought to long-term profitability.
他的同事迈克·比尔说，太多的公司已用机械的方式进行重组，在没有充分考虑到长期赢利能力的情况下降低了成本。
BBDO's Al Rosenshine is blunter. He dismisses a lot of the work of re-engineering consultants as mere rubbish — "the worst sort of ambulance-chasing".
BBDO的艾尔·罗森夏恩更加直率。他把许多重组咨询专家所做的工作视为垃圾——“典型的劳而无获”。
Few would dispute that the term applies to the Unabomber, whose manifesto, published in 1995, scorns science and longs for return to a pretechnological utopia. But surely that does not mean environmentalists concerned about uncontrolled industrial growth are anti-science, as an essay in US News & World Report last May seemed to suggest.
将该词用在仇视现代文明的恐怖主义者身上，也不会引起多大争议，它在1995年公开发表蔑视科学、渴望回到前技术时代理想社会的声明。当然，这并不意味着，对不加控制的工业发展表示担忧的环境主义者也是反科学的，而去年5月份刊登在《美国新闻和世界报导》的一篇文章似乎有此暗示。
Indeed, some observers fear that the anti-science epithet is in danger of becoming meaningless.
的确，一些观察者担心反科学这个词会失去意义。
"The term 'anti-science' can lump together too many, quite different things," notes Harvard University philosopher Gerald Holton in his 1993 work Science and Anti-Science, "They have in common only one thing that they tend to annoy or threaten those who regard themselves as more enlightened."
“‘反科学’这个词可以涵盖很多截然不同的东西”，哈佛大学的哲学家杰拉尔德·霍尔顿在其1993年的著作《科学和反科学》中写道：“它们惟一的共同点就是会激怒或威胁那些自以为比别人更有见识的人。”
Many people mistakenly believe the term drug refers only to some sort of medicine or an illegal chemical taken by drug addicts.
很多人错误地认为“药物”这个词仅仅指某些药品或是吸毒者服用的违禁化学品。
They don't realize that familiar substances such as alcohol and tobacco are also drugs.
他们没有意识到诸如酒精、烟草这些我们熟悉的物质也是药物。
This is why the more neutral term substance is now used by many physicians and psychologists.
这也是现在许多内科医生和心理学家使用“物质”这个更加中性的词的原因。
The phrase "substance abuse" is often used instead of "drug abuse" to make clear that substances such as alcohol and tobacco can be just as harmfully misused as heroin and cocaine.
他们常用“物质滥用”而不用“药物滥用”来清楚表明滥用酒精、烟草这样的物质如同滥用海洛因和可卡因一样有害。
Yet the BBC will have to change, because the broadcasting world around it is changing.
然而BBC将不得不进行变革，因为周围的广播世界正发生变化。
The commercial TV channels — ITV and Channel 4 — were required by the Thatcher Government's Broadcasting Act to become more commercial, competing with each other for advertisers, and cutting costs and jobs.
商业电视频道——ITV和第四频道——应撒切尔政府广播法案的要求进行商业化，彼此竞争广告业务，降低成本，裁减员工。
But it is the arrival of new satellite channels — funded partly by advertising and partly by viewers' subscriptions — which will bring about the biggest changes in the long term.
但从长远来看会引起最大变化的是新的卫星频道的出现，它们的部分资金来自广告收入，部分来自用户收视费。
Indeed the mere size of operations and the numbers of workmen involved rendered such personal relations impossible.
的确，单说公司的经营规模和所用的工人数量就使建立这种个人关系不可能了。
Fortunately, however, the increasing power and organisation of the trade unions, at least in all skilled trades, enabled the workmen to meet on equal terms the managers of the companies who employed them.
然而，幸运的是，工会的势力和组织在日益壮大，至少在各技术行业是这样，这就使工人与雇用他们的公司经理们地位平等了。
And perhaps most important of all, advertising provides a guarantee of reasonable value in the products and services you buy.
也许最重要的是，广告为你购买的商品或服务提高了合理的价值方面的保证。
Apart from the fact that twenty-seven Acts of Parliament govern the terms of advertising, no regular advertiser dare promote a product that fails to live up to the promise of his advertisements.
除了国会制定的二十七项法案对广告词加以约束之外，没有哪个专职广告商胆敢推销与广告承诺不符的产品。
{adj: Asian, oriental} denoting or characteristic of the biogeographic region including southern Asia and the Malay Archipelago as far as the Philippines and Borneo and Java
"Oriental politeness"
"for people of South and East Asian ancestry the term `Asian' is preferred to `Oriental'"
"Asian ancestry"
{adj: Saxon} of or relating to or characteristic of the early Saxons or Anglo-Saxons and their descendents (especially the English or Lowland Scots) and their language
"Saxon princes"
"for greater clarity choose a plain Saxon term instead of a latinate one"
{adj: Scots, Scottish, Scotch} of or relating to or characteristic of Scotland or its people or culture or its English dialect or Gaelic language
"Scots Gaelic"
"the Scots community in New York"
"`Scottish' tends to be the more formal term as in `The Scottish Symphony' or `Scottish authors' or `Scottish mountains'"
"`Scotch' is in disfavor with Scottish people and is used primarily outside Scotland except in such frozen phrases as `Scotch broth' or `Scotch whiskey' or `Scotch plaid'"
{adj: adjuratory} earnestly or solemnly entreating
"in adjuratory terms"
{adj: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly} having brief brilliant points or flashes of light
"bugle beads all aglitter"
"glinting eyes"
"glinting water"
"his glittering eyes were cold and malevolent"
"shop window full of glittering Christmas trees"
"glittery costume jewelry"
"scintillant mica"
"the scintillating stars"
"a dress with sparkly sequins"
"`glistering' is an archaic term"
{adj: apophatic} of or relating to the belief that God can be known to humans only in terms of what He is not (such as `God is unknowable')
{adj: appraising, evaluative} exercising or involving careful evaluations
"looked him over with an appraising eye"
"the literary judge uses many evaluative terms"
{adj: balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky} informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
"it used to drive my husband balmy"
{adj: based, founded} having a basis; often used as combining terms
"a soundly based argument"
"a computer-based system"
"well-founded suspicions"
{adj: bashful, blate} disposed to avoid notice
"they considered themselves a tough outfit and weren't bashful about letting anybody know it"; (`blate' is a Scottish term for bashful)
{adj: beefy, burly, husky, strapping, buirdly} muscular and heavily built
"a beefy wrestler"
"had a tall burly frame"
"clothing sizes for husky boys"
"a strapping boy of eighteen"
"`buirdly' is a Scottish term"
{adj: binary} consisting of two (units or components or elements or terms) or based on two
"a binary star is a system in which two stars revolve around each other"
"a binary compound"
"the binary number system has two as its base"
{adj: binomial} consisting of two names or terms
"binomial nomenclature"
{adj: bodied, corporal, corporate, embodied, incarnate} possessing or existing in bodily form
"what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind"- Shakespeare
"an incarnate spirit"
"`corporate' is an archaic term"
{adj: bordered} having a border especially of a specified kind; sometimes used as a combining term
"black-bordered handkerchief"
<-> unbordered
{adj: bosky, brushy} covered with or consisting of bushes or thickets
"brushy undergrowth"
"`bosky' is a literary term"
"a bosky park leading to a modest yet majestic plaza"- Jack Beatty
{adj: broke, bust, skint, stone-broke, stony-broke} lacking funds
"`skint' is a British slang term"
{adj: burst, ruptured, busted} suddenly and violently broken open especially from internal pressure (`busted' is an informal term for `burst')
"a burst balloon"
"burst pipes"
"burst seams"
"a ruptured appendix"
"a busted balloon"
{adj: busy, engaged, in use} (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line)
"her line is busy"
"receptionists' telephones are always engaged"
"the lavatory is in use"
"kept getting a busy signal"
{adj: caller} providing coolness
"a cooling breeze"
"`caller' is a Scottish term as in `a caller breeze'"
{adj: categorematic} of a term or phrase capable of standing as the subject or (especially) the predicate of a proposition
<-> syncategorematic
{adj: censured} officially rebuked or found blameworthy
"the censured senator did not run for another term"
{adj: chummy, buddy-buddy, thick} (used informally) associated on close terms
"a close friend"
"the bartender was chummy with the regular customers"
"the two were thick as thieves for months"
{adj: common, vernacular, vulgar} being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
"common parlance"
"a vernacular term"
"vernacular speakers"
"the vulgar tongue of the masses"
"the technical and vulgar names for an animal species"
{adj: comparable with} similar in some respect and so able to be compared in order to show differences and similarities
"pianists of comparable ability"
"cars comparable with each other in terms of fuel consumption"
{adj: complementary} of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other
"`male' and `female' are complementary terms"
{adj: conditional} imposing or depending on or containing a condition
"conditional acceptance of the terms"
"lent conditional support"
"the conditional sale will not be complete until the full purchase price is paid"
<-> unconditional
{adj: conflicting} on bad terms
"they were usually at odds over politics"
"conflicting opinions"
{adj: contradictory} of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false
"`perfect' and `imperfect' are contradictory terms"
{adj: contrary} of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true but both may be false
"`hot' and `cold' are contrary terms"
{adj: contrastive, incompatible} of words so related that one contrasts with the other
"`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms"
{adj: converse} of words so related that one reverses the relation denoted by the other
"`parental' and `filial' are converse terms"
{adj: crisp, frosty, nipping, nippy, snappy, parky} pleasantly cold and invigorating
"crisp clear nights and frosty mornings"
"a nipping wind"
"a nippy fall day"
"snappy weather"; (`parky' is a British term)
{adj: cryptic, cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying} of an obscure nature
"the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"
"a deep dark secret"
"the inscrutable workings of Providence"
"in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life"- Rachel Carson
"rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands"
{adj: definable} capable of being defined, limited, or explained
"definable terms"
"definable rules"
{adj: definite} precise; explicit and clearly defined
"I want a definite answer"
"a definite statement of the terms of the will"
"a definite amount"
"definite restrictions on the sale of alcohol"
"the wedding date is now definite"
"a definite drop in attendance"
<-> indefinite
{adj: denotative, explicit} in accordance with fact or the primary meaning of a term
{adj: determined, dictated, set} determined or decided upon as by an authority
"date and place are already determined"
"the dictated terms of surrender"
"the time set for the launching"
{adj: direct} similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity
"a term is in direct proportion to another term if it increases (or decreases) as the other increases (or decreases)"
<-> inverse
{adj: discovered, disclosed, revealed} no longer concealed; uncovered as by opening a curtain; `discovered' is archaic and primarily a theater term
"the scene disclosed was of a moonlit forest"
{adj: dyslogistic, dislogistic, pejorative} expressing disapproval
"dyslogistic terms like `nitwit' and `scalawag'"
{adj: dysphemistic, offensive} of an offensive substitute for inoffensive terminology
"`nigger' is a dysphemistic term for `African-American'"
<-> euphemistic
{adj: echoic, imitative, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic} (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound
"onomatopoeic words are imitative of noises"
"it was independently developed in more than one place as an onomatopoetic term"- Harry Hoijer
<-> nonechoic
{adj: economic} concerned with worldly necessities of life (especially money)
"he wrote the book primarily for economic reasons"
"gave up the large house for economic reasons"
"in economic terms they are very privileged"
{adj: equal} well matched; having the same quantity, value, or measure as another
"on equal terms"
"all men are equal before the law"
<-> unequal
{adj: euphemistic, inoffensive} of an inoffensive substitute for offensive terminology
"`peepee' is a common euphemistic term"
<-> dysphemistic
{adj: even, fifty-fifty} equal in degree or extent or amount; or equally matched or balanced
"even amounts of butter and sugar"
"on even terms"
"it was a fifty-fifty (or even) split"
"had a fifty-fifty (or even) chance"
"an even fight"
{adj: exalted, sublime, grand, high-flown, high-minded, lofty, rarefied, rarified, idealistic, noble-minded} of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style
"an exalted ideal"
"argue in terms of high-flown ideals"- Oliver Franks
"a noble and lofty concept"
"a grand purpose"
{adj: exaugural} occurring at or marking the close of a term of office
"an exaugural message"
<-> inaugural
{adj: familiar, intimate} having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship
"on familiar terms"
"pretending she is on an intimate footing with those she slanders"
{adj: far-out, kinky, offbeat, quirky, way-out} informal terms; strikingly unconventional
{adj: flustered, hot and bothered, perturbed, rattled} thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term)
{adj: full-term} gestated for the entire duration of normal pregnancy
"a healthy full-term baby"
<-> premature
{adj: general} applying to all or most members of a category or group
"the general public"
"general assistance"
"a general rule"
"in general terms"
"comprehensible to the general reader"
<-> specific
{adj: ill-defined, unclear} poorly stated or described
"he confuses the reader with ill-defined terms and concepts"
<-> well-defined
{adj: imprecise} not precise
"imprecise astronomical observations"
"the terms he used were imprecise and emotional"
<-> precise
{adj: industrial} employed in industry
"industrial workers"
"the industrial term in use among professional thieves"
{adj: inverse} opposite in nature or effect or relation to another quantity
"a term is in inverse proportion to another term if it increases (or decreases) as the other decreases (or increases)"
<-> direct
{adj: linear, additive} designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree
<-> nonlinear
{adj: long-run, long-term, semipermanent} relating to or extending over a relatively long time
"the long-run significance of the elections"
"the long-term reconstruction of countries damaged by the war"
"a long-term investment"
{adj: mechanistic} explained in terms of physical forces
"a mechanistic universe"
{adj: metaphorical, metaphoric} expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another
"a metaphorical expression"
"metaphoric language"
{adj: most-favored-nation} of or relating to a commercial treaty where two nations agree to accord each other the same favorable terms that would be offered in treaties with any other nation
{adj: nominal} being value in terms of specification on currency or stock certificates rather than purchasing power
"nominal or face value"
<-> real
{adj: noninterchangeable} such that the terms of an expression cannot be interchanged without changing the meaning
"the arguments of the symmetric relation, `is the father of', are noninterchangeable"
{adj: nonlinear} designating or involving an equation whose terms are not of the first degree
<-> linear
{adj: occurrent} presently occurring (either causally or incidentally)
"technical terms are rarely occurrent in literature"
{adj: parametric} of or relating to or in terms of a parameter
"parametric equation"
{adj: polysyllabic, sesquipedalian} (of words) long and ponderous; having many syllables
"sesquipedalian technical terms"
{adj: premature} born after a gestation period of less than the normal time
"a premature infant"
<-> full-term
{adj: probationary, provisional, provisionary, tentative} under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon
"probationary employees"
"a provisional government"
"just a tentative schedule"
{adj: quits} on equal terms by payment or requital
"we're now quits"
"finally quits with the loan"
{adj: real} being value measured in terms of purchasing power
"real prices"
"real income"
"real wages"
<-> nominal
{adj: short-run, short-term} relating to or extending over a limited period
"short-run planning"
"a short-term lease"
"short-term credit"
{adj: syncategorematic} of a term that cannot stand as the subject or (especially) the predicate of a proposition but must be used in conjunction with other terms
"`or' is a syncategorematic term"
<-> categorematic
{adj: terminal} relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time
"terminal examinations"
"terminal payments"
{adj: terminated} (of e.g. a contract or term of office) having come to an end
{adj: traveled} traveled over or through; sometimes used as a combining term
<-> untraveled
{adj: uncertain} ambiguous (especially in the negative)
"she spoke in no uncertain terms"
{adj: undefined, vague} not precisely limited, determined, or distinguished
"an undefined term"
"undefined authority"
"some undefined sense of excitement"
"vague feelings of sadness"
"a vague uneasiness"
<-> defined
{adj: unexpired} not having come to an end or been terminated by passage of time
"elected to fill the senator's unexpired term"
"an unexpired driver's license"
<-> expired
{adj: unexpressed, unsaid, unstated, unuttered, unverbalized, unverbalised, unvoiced, unspoken} not made explicit
"the unexpressed terms of the agreement"
"things left unsaid"
"some kind of unspoken agreement"
"his action is clear but his reason remains unstated"
{adj: unidimensional, one-dimensional} relating to a single dimension or aspect; having no depth or scope
"a prose statement of fact is unidimensional, its value being measured wholly in terms of its truth"- Mary Sheehan
"a novel with one-dimensional characters"
<-> multidimensional
{adv: abstractly} in abstract terms
<-> concretely
{adv: concretely} in concrete terms
"concretely, this meant that he was broke"
<-> abstractly
{adv: conversely} with the terms of the relation reversed
"conversely, not all women are mothers"
{adv: dazedly, torpidly} in a daze; in a dazed manner
"he wondered dazedly whether the term after next at his new school wouldn't matter so much"
{adv: digitally} in terms of integers
"the time was digitally displayed"
{adv: hereinafter, hereafter, hereunder} in a subsequent part of this document or statement or matter etc.
"the landlord demises unto the tenant the premises hereinafter called the demised premises"
"the terms specified hereunder"
{adv: hereunder} under the terms of this agreement
{adv: interchangeably} in an interchangeable manner
"these terms can be used interchangeably"
{adv: nearby} not far away in relative terms
"she works nearby"
"the planets orbiting nearby are Venus and Mars"
{adv: psychologically} in terms of psychology
"classify poetry psychologically"
{adv: rather, instead} on the contrary
"rather than disappoint the children, he did two quick tricks before he left"
"he didn't call; rather (or instead), he wrote her a letter"
"used English terms instead of Latin ones"
{adv: signally} as a signal
"a term that is used signally rather than symbolically"
{adv: starkly} in a blunt manner
"in starkly realistic terms"
{adv: synonymously} in a synonymous manner
"the two terms are used synonymously"
{n: Ask Jeeves} a widely used search engine accepting plain English questions or phrases or terms
{n: Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse, sanatorium, snake pit} pejorative terms for an insane asylum
{n: Blighty} a slang term for England used by English troops serving abroad
{n: Bolshevik, Marxist, red, bolshie, bolshy} emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries
{n: Bovinae, subfamily Bovinae} term not used technically; essentially coextensive with genus Bos: cattle; buffalo; and sometimes includes kudu
{n: Bovini, tribe Bovini} term not used technically; essentially coextensive with genus Bos
{n: Cannabidaceae, family Cannabidaceae, hemp family} two genera of erect or twining herbs that are pollinated by the wind, including the genera Cannabis and Humulus; term not used in all classifications; in some the genus Cannabis is placed in the family Moraceae and the genus Humulus in the family Urticaceae
{n: Fanny Adams} nautical term for tinned meat
{n: Father, Padre} `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military
{n: Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve, Fed, FRS} the central bank of the United States; incorporates 12 Federal Reserve branch banks and all national banks and state charted commercial banks and some trust companies
"the Fed seeks to control the United States economy by raising and lowering short-term interest rates and the money supply"
{n: Fifth Crusade} a Crusade under papal control from 1218 to 1221 that achieved military victories but failed when dissension arose over accepting the terms they had been offered
{n: Funk, Casimir Funk} United States biochemist (born in Poland) who showed that several diseases were caused by dietary deficiencies and who coined the term `vitamin' for the chemicals involved (1884-1967)
{n: Godhead, Lord, Creator, Maker, Divine, God Almighty, Almighty, Jehovah} terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God
{n: Gordian knot} any very difficult problem; insoluble in its own terms
{n: Home Loan Bank} one of 11 regional banks that monitor and make short-term credit advances to thrift institutions in their region
{n: Hooke, Robert Hooke} English scientist who formulated the law of elasticity and proposed a wave theory of light and formulated a theory of planetary motion and proposed the inverse square law of gravitational attraction and discovered the cellular structure of cork and introduced the term `cell' into biology and invented a balance spring for watches (1635-1703)
{n: Hypopitys, genus Hypopitys} term used in some classifications for the pinesaps, which are usually included in the genus Monotropa
{n: Islam, Islamism, Mohammedanism, Muhammadanism, Muslimism} the monotheistic religious system of Muslims founded in Arabia in the 7th century and based on the teachings of Muhammad as laid down in the Koran
"Islam is a complete way of life, not a Sunday religion"
"the term Muhammadanism is offensive to Muslims who believe that Allah, not Muhammad, founded their religion"
{n: Jirga} a Pashto term for a decision making assembly of male elders
"most criminal cases are handled by a tribal Jirga rather than by laws or police"
{n: Kraut, Krauthead, Boche, Jerry, Hun} offensive terms for a person of German descent
{n: Limicolae, suborder Limicolae} term used in some classifications for migratory shorebirds; coextensive with the Charadrii
{n: Mickey Finn} slang term for knockout drops
{n: Mountie} colloquial term for a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
{n: Myxophyceae, family Myxophyceae, Schizophyceae, family Schizophyceae} former terms for Cyanophyceae
{n: Negritude} an ideological position that holds Black culture to be independent and valid on its own terms; an affirmation of the African cultural heritage
{n: Oriental, oriental person} a member of an Oriental race; the term is regarded as offensive by Asians (especially by Asian Americans)
{n: Oxbridge} general term for an ancient and prestigious and privileged university (especially Oxford University or Cambridge University)
{n: Picariae, order Picariae} term used in some classifications as nearly equivalent to the order Coraciiformes
{n: Potomac} term sometimes used to refer to Washington, D.C.
{n: Raptores, order Raptores} term used in former classifications; erroneously grouped together birds of the orders Falconiformes and Strigiformes
{n: Redskin, Injun, red man} offensive terms for Native Americans
{n: Sade, de Sade, Comte Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, Marquis de Sade} French soldier and writer whose descriptions of sexual perversion gave rise to the term `sadism' (1740-1814)
{n: Sassenach} the Scots' term for an English person
{n: Schizophyta, division Schizophyta} former term for the Cyanophyta
{n: Termes, genus Termes} type genus of the Termitidae
{n: Treasury bill, T-bill} a short-term obligation that is not interest-bearing (it is purchased at a discount); can be traded on a discount basis for 91 days
{n: Truman, Harry Truman, Harry S Truman, President Truman} elected vice president in Roosevelt's 4th term; became 33rd President of the United States on Roosevelt's death in 1945 and was elected President in 1948; authorized the use of atomic bombs against Japan (1884-1972)
{n: acceptance} (contract law) words signifying consent to the terms of an offer (thereby creating a contract)
{n: alcoholic dementia, alcohol amnestic disorder, Korsakoff's psychosis, Korsakoff's syndrome, Korsakov's psychosis, Korsakov's syndrome, polyneuritic psychosis} dementia observed during the last stages of severe chronic alcoholism; involves loss of memory for recent events although long term memory is intact
{n: alienism} an obsolete term for the study and treatment of mental illness
{n: alternator} an old term for an electric generator that produces alternating current (especially in automobiles)
{n: anthropocentrism, anthropocentricity} an inclination to evaluate reality exclusively in terms of human values
{n: antisocial personality disorder, sociopathic personality, psychopathic personality} a personality disorder characterized by amorality and lack of affect; capable of violent acts without guilt feelings (`psychopathic personality' was once widely used but was superseded by `sociopathic personality' to indicate the social aspects of the disorder, but now `antisocial personality disorder' is the preferred term)
{n: anxiety disorder} a cover term for a variety of mental disorders in which severe anxiety is a salient symptom
{n: apophatism} the religious belief that God cannot be known but is completely `other' and must be described in negative terms (in terms of what God is not)
<-> cataphatism, doctrine of analogy
{n: arithmetic progression} (mathematics) a progression in which a constant is added to each term in order to obtain the next term
"1-4-7-10-13- is the start of an arithmetic progression"
{n: armistice, cease-fire, truce} a state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms
{n: arson, incendiarism, fire-raising} malicious burning to destroy property
"the British term for arson is fire-raising"
{n: asshole, bastard, cocksucker, dickhead, shit, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, whoreson, son of a bitch, SOB} insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous
{n: assurance} a British term for some kinds of insurance
{n: attic, bean, bonce, noodle, noggin, dome} informal terms for a human head
{n: authorized shares, authorized stock, capital stock} the maximum number of shares authorized under the terms of a corporation's articles of incorporation
{n: baas} South African term for `boss'
{n: baby, sister} (slang) sometimes used as a term of address for attractive young women
{n: bargainer} negotiator of the terms of a transaction
"he is a hard bargainer"
{n: bargaining} the negotiation of the terms of a transaction or agreement
{n: bastard, mongrel} derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin
"the architecture was a kind of bastard suggesting Gothic but not true Gothic"
{n: batting average} (an extension of the baseball term) the proportion of times some effort succeeds
"the salesman's batting average was 7 out of 12"
{n: bayou} a swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana)
{n: beak, honker, hooter, nozzle, snoot, snout, schnozzle, schnoz} informal terms for the nose
{n: bedlamite} an archaic term for a lunatic
{n: beloved, dear, dearest, loved one, honey, love} a beloved person; used as terms of endearment
{n: bill of lading, waybill} a receipt given by the carrier to the shipper acknowledging receipt of the goods being shipped and specifying the terms of delivery
{n: binomial} (mathematics) a quantity expressed as a sum or difference of two terms; a polynomial with two terms
{n: bitter} English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft)
{n: block} (computer science) a sector or group of sectors that function as the smallest data unit permitted
"since blocks are often defined as a single sector, the terms `block' and `sector' are sometimes used interchangeably"
{n: boarder} a pupil who lives at school during term time
{n: bobby} an informal term for a British policeman
{n: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum} informal terms for money
{n: boot} British term for the luggage compartment in a car
{n: bourn, bourne} an archaic term for a boundary
{n: bourn, bourne} an archaic term for a goal or destination
{n: boy} (ethnic slur) offensive and disparaging term for Black man
"get out of my way, boy"
{n: breach of warranty} a breach that occurs when an item is deficient according to the terms of a warranty
{n: bridal, espousal} archaic terms for a wedding or wedding feast
{n: britches} informal term for breeches
{n: broad} slang term for a woman
"a broad is a woman who can throw a mean punch"
{n: brother, comrade} used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement
"Greetings, comrade!"
{n: brush, clash, encounter, skirmish} a minor short-term fight
{n: bug} general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate
{n: bull, cop, copper, fuzz, pig} uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
{n: burg} colloquial American term for a town
"I've lived in this burg all my life"
{n: butch, dike, dyke} offensive terms for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine
{n: caff} informal British term for a cafe
{n: capital expenditure} the cost of long-term improvements
{n: capitualtion} a document containing the terms of surrender
{n: categorem, categoreme} a categorematic expression; a term capable of standing alone as the subject or predicate of a logical proposition
"names are called categorems"
<-> syncategorem, syncategoreme
{n: chapman} archaic term for an itinerant peddler
{n: chicken hawk, hen hawk} nontechnical term for any hawks said to prey on poultry
{n: child, kid, youngster, minor, shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, fry, nestling} a young person of either sex
"she writes books for children"
"they're just kids"
"`tiddler' is a British term for youngsters"
{n: chink, Chinaman} offensive terms for a person of Chinese descent
{n: chopper, pearly} informal terms for a human `tooth'
{n: chow, chuck, eats, grub} informal terms for a meal
{n: cloning} a general term for the research activity that creates a copy of some biological entity (a gene or organism or cell)
{n: closet queen} a negative term for a homosexual man who chooses not to reveal his sexual orientation
{n: cobber} Australian term for a pal
{n: cock, prick, dick, shaft, pecker, peter, tool, putz} obscene terms for penis
{n: color, colour} the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
{n: colored person, colored} a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive
{n: commercial paper} an unsecured and unregistered short-term obligation issued by an institutional borrower to investors who have temporarily idle cash
{n: compere} British term for someone who introduces television acts or cabarets etc
{n: complex, coordination compound} a compound described in terms of the central atom to which other atoms are bound or coordinated
{n: conceptualism} the doctrine that the application of a general term to various objects indicates the existence of a mental entity that mediates the application
{n: concretism, concrete representation} a representation of an abstract idea in concrete terms
{n: condition, term} (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement
"the contract set out the conditions of the lease"
"the terms of the treaty were generous"
{n: conk} informal term for the nose
{n: contextual definition} a definition in which the term is used by embedding it in a larger expression containing its explanation
"a contextual definition of `legal duty' might be `X has a legal duty to do Y means that X is required to do Y by a contract relationship that would be upheld in a court of law'"
{n: contradiction, contradiction in terms} (logic) a statement that is necessarily false
"the statement `he is brave and he is not brave' is a contradiction"
{n: cookie, cooky, biscuit} any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term)
{n: countenance, physiognomy, phiz, visage, kisser, smiler, mug} the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British)
{n: cow, moo-cow} female of domestic cattle: "`moo-cow' is a child's term"
{n: crap, dirt, shit, shite, poop, turd} obscene terms for feces
{n: craziness, daftness, flakiness} informal terms for insanity
{n: creature, wight} a human being; `wight' is an archaic term
{n: criterion, standard} the ideal in terms of which something can be judged
"they live by the standards of their community"
{n: critter} a regional term for creature (especially domestic animals)
{n: cub, lad, laddie, sonny, sonny boy} a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy)
{n: cube, third power} the product of three equal terms
{n: cunt, puss, pussy, slit, snatch, twat} obscene terms for female genitals
{n: currentness, currency, up-to-dateness} the property of belonging to the present time
"the currency of a slang term"
{n: dad, dada, daddy, pa, papa, pappa, pop} an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk
{n: dame, doll, wench, skirt, chick, bird} informal terms for a (young) woman
{n: darky, darkie, darkey} offensive term for Black people
{n: deep} literary term for an ocean
"denizens of the deep"
{n: degree of a polynomial} the degree of the term in the polynomial that has the highest degree
{n: degree of a term} the sum of the exponents of the variables in the term
{n: degree} the highest power of a term or variable
{n: demythologization, demythologisation} the restatement of a message (as a religious one) in rational terms
{n: depression, slump, economic crisis} a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
{n: developmental age} a measure of a child's development (in body size or motor skill or psychological function) expressed in terms of age norms
{n: doghouse} an idiomatic term for being in disfavor
"in the doghouse"
{n: dog} informal term for a man
"you lucky dog"
{n: domestic partner, significant other, spousal equivalent, spouse equivalent} a person (not necessarily a spouse) with whom you cohabit and share a long-term sexual relationship
{n: dope, poop, the skinny, low-down} slang terms for inside information
"is that the straight dope?"
{n: dynamism} any of the various theories or doctrines or philosophical systems that attempt to explain the phenomena of the universe in terms of some immanent force or energy
{n: eczema} generic term for inflammatory conditions of the skin; particularly with vesiculation in the acute stages
{n: effendi} a former Turkish term of respect; especially for government officials
{n: enlistment, hitch, term of enlistment, tour of duty, duty tour, tour} a period of time spent in military service
{n: episcopate} the term of office of a bishop
{n: estrogen, oestrogen} a general term for female steroid sex hormones that are secreted by the ovary and responsible for typical female sexual characteristics
{n: executor} a person appointed by a testator to carry out the terms of the will
{n: explicit definition} a definition that gives an exact equivalent of the term defined
{n: fagot, faggot, fag, fairy, nance, pansy, queen, queer, poof, poove, pouf} offensive terms for an openly homosexual man
{n: far cry} distance estimated in terms of the audibility of a cry
"it's a far cry from here"
{n: father, male parent, begetter} a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
"his father was born in Atlanta"
<-> female parent, mother
{n: field theory} (physics) a theory that explains a physical phenomenon in terms of a field and the manner in which it interacts with matter or with other fields
{n: filling} (dentistry) a dental appliance consisting of any of various substances (as metal or plastic) inserted into a prepared cavity in a tooth
"when he yawned I could see the gold fillings in his teeth"
"an informal British term for `filling' is `stopping'"
{n: final examination, final exam, final} an examination administered at the end of an academic term
{n: fingerprint} a generic term for any identifying characteristic
"that tax bill had the senator's fingerprints all over it"
{n: first degree} a degree of one
"all of the terms in a linear equation are of the first degree"
{n: fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish} informal terms for a difficult situation
"he got into a terrible fix"
"he made a muddle of his marriage"
{n: footing, terms} status with respect to the relations between people or groups
"on good terms with her in-laws"
"on a friendly footing"
{n: free port} a port open on equal terms to all commercial vessels
{n: freelance, independent, self-employed person} a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them
{n: gallows tree, gallows-tree, gibbet, gallous} alternative terms for gallows
{n: gal} alliterative term for girl (or woman)
{n: game theory, theory of games} (economics) a theory of competition stated in terms of gains and losses among opposing players
{n: gamp, brolly} colloquial terms for an umbrella
{n: generative grammar} (linguistics) a type of grammar that describes syntax in terms of a set of logical rules that can generate all and only the infinite number of grammatical sentences in a language and assigns them all the correct structural description
{n: genomics} the branch of genetics that studies organisms in terms of their genomes (their full DNA sequences)
{n: gen} informal term for information
"give me the gen on your new line of computers"
{n: geometric progression} (mathematics) a progression in which each term is multiplied by a constant in order to obtain the next term
"1-4-16-64-256- is the start of a geometric progression"
{n: glossary, gloss} an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field
{n: gonif, goniff, ganef, ganof} (Yiddish) a thief or dishonest person or scoundrel (often used as a general term of abuse)
{n: gook, slant-eye} a disparaging term for an Asian person (especially for North Vietnamese soldiers in the Vietnam War)
{n: gravidity, gravidness, gravidation} technical terms for pregnancy
{n: greaser, wetback, taco} offensive terms for a person of Mexican descent
{n: gringo} a Latin American (disparaging) term for foreigners (especially Americans and Englishmen)
{n: gripe, kick, beef, bitch, squawk} informal terms for objecting
"I have a gripe about the service here"
{n: guy, cat, hombre, bozo} an informal term for a youth or man
"a nice guy"
"the guy's only doing it for some doll"
{n: hajji, hadji, haji} an Arabic term of respect for someone who has made the pilgrimage to Mecca
{n: hajji} a general term used by foreign soldiers to refer to the Iraqi people
"to American soldiers, the hajji are the alien people from whom the enemy emerges"
{n: half-term} a short vacation about halfway through a school term
"he came to visit at half-term"
{n: hard time} a term served in a maximum security prison
{n: harmonic progression} (mathematics) a progression of terms whose reciprocals form an arithmetic progression
{n: hat} an informal term for a person's role
"he took off his politician's hat and talked frankly"
{n: heir, inheritor, heritor} a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another
{n: high-rise, tower block} tower consisting of a multistoried building of offices or apartments
"`tower block' is the British term for `high-rise'"
{n: hillbilly, bushwhacker} a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person
{n: historical school} a school of 19th century German economists and legal philosophers who tried to explain modern economic systems in evolutionary or historical terms
{n: holdout} a negotiator who hopes to gain concessions by refusing to come to terms
"their star pitcher was a holdout for six weeks"
{n: holdout} a refusal by a negotiator to come to terms in the hope of obtaining a better deal
{n: holdover, hangover} an official who remains in office after his term
{n: homogeneous polynomial} a polynomial consisting of terms all of the same degree
{n: horseless carriage} an early term for an automobile
"when automobiles first replaced horse-drawn carriages they were called horseless carriages"
{n: host, legion} archaic terms for army
{n: hostage, surety} a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms
{n: hydrostatic head} the pressure at a given point in a liquid measured in terms of the vertical height of a column of the liquid needed to produce the same pressure
{n: iconology} the branch of art history that studies visual images and their symbolic meaning (especially in social or political terms)
{n: incompetent cervix} (obstetrics) uterine cervix that becomes dilated before term and without labor often resulting in miscarriage or premature birth
{n: indenture} a contract binding one party into the service of another for a specified term
{n: indenture} formal agreement between the issuer of bonds and the bondholders as to terms of the debt
{n: indirect discourse} a report of a discourse in which deictic terms are modified appropriately (e.g., "he said `I am a fool' would be modified to `he said he is a fool'")
<-> direct discourse
{n: intern, interne, houseman, medical intern} an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term)
{n: inversion, sexual inversion} a term formerly used to mean taking on the gender role of the opposite sex
{n: invertebrate} any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification
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