Hilary term
() Formerly, one of the four terms of the courts of common law in England, beginning on the eleventh of January and ending on the thirty-first of the same month, in each year |
Related
(imp. & p. p.) of Relate |
Related
(p. p. & a.) Allied by kindred |
Related
(p. p. & a.) Standing in relation or connection |
Related
(p. p. & a.) Narrated |
Related
(p. p. & a.) Same as Relative, 4. |
Sea term
() A term used specifically by seamen |
Semester
(n.) A period of six months |
Subject
(a.) Placed or situated under |
Subject
(a.) Placed under the power of another |
Subject
(a.) Exposed |
Subject
(a.) Obedient |
Subject
(a.) That which is placed under the authority, dominion, control, or influence of something else. |
Subject
(a.) Specifically: One who is under the authority of a ruler and is governed by his laws |
Subject
(a.) That which is subjected, or submitted to, any physical operation or process |
Subject
(a.) That which is brought under thought or examination |
Subject
(a.) The person who is treated of |
Subject
(a.) That of which anything is affirmed or predicated |
Subject
(a.) That in which any quality, attribute, or relation, whether spiritual or material, inheres, or to which any of these appertain |
Subject
(a.) Hence, that substance or being which is conscious of its own operations |
Subject
(n.) The principal theme, or leading thought or phrase, on which a composition or a movement is based. |
Subject
(n.) The incident, scene, figure, group, etc., which it is the aim of the artist to represent. |
Subject
(v. t.) To bring under control, power, or dominion |
Subject
(v. t.) To expose |
Subject
(v. t.) To submit |
Subject
(v. t.) To make subservient. |
Subject
(v. t.) To cause to undergo |
Subject-matter
(n.) The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion |
Term
(n.) That which limits the extent of anything |
Term
(n.) The time for which anything lasts |
Term
(n.) In universities, schools, etc., a definite continuous period during which instruction is regularly given to students |
Term
(n.) A point, line, or superficies, that limits |
Term
(n.) A fixed period of time |
Term
(n.) The limitation of an estate |
Term
(n.) A space of time granted to a debtor for discharging his obligation. |
Term
(n.) The time in which a court is held or is open for the trial of causes. |
Term
(n.) The subject or the predicate of a proposition |
Term
(n.) A word or expression |
Term
(n.) A quadrangular pillar, adorned on the top with the figure of a head, as of a man, woman, or satyr |
Term
(n.) A member of a compound quantity |
Term
(n.) The menses. |
Term
(n.) Propositions or promises, as in contracts, which, when assented to or accepted by another, settle the contract and bind the parties |
Term
(n.) In Scotland, the time fixed for the payment of rents. |
Term
(n.) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail. |
Term
(n.) To apply a term to |
semester hour
credit hour | a unit of academic credit, one hour a week for an academic semester |
subject
content
depicted object | something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation, a moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still picture of the same subject |
terminus terminal figure
term | (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar, originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome |
short-term memory
STM
immediate memory | what you can repeat immediately after perceiving it |
long-term memory
LTM | your general store of remembered information |
topic
subject issue
matter | some situation or event that is thought about, he kept drifting off the topic, he had been thinking about the subject for several years, it is a matter for the police |
| term | any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial, the general term of an algebraic equation of the n-th degree |
| degree of a term | the sum of the exponents of the variables in the term |
discipline
subject
subject area
subject field
field
field of study
study bailiwick | a branch of knowledge, in what discipline is his doctorate?, teachers should be well trained in their subject, anthropology is the study of human beings |
| term | a word or expression used for some particular thing, he learned many medical terms |
| subject | (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence, the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated |
| subject | (logic) the first term of a proposition |
nominative
nominative case
subject case | the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb |
| term paper | a composition intended to indicate a student's progress during a school term |
message
content
subject matter
substance | what a communication that is about something is about |
subject
topic
theme | the subject matter of a conversation or discussion, he didn't want to discuss that subject, it was a very sensitive topic, his letters were always on the theme of love |
| short subject | a brief film, often shown prior to showing the feature |
| term | one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition, the major term of a syllogism must occur twice |
| major term | the term in a syllogism that is the predicate of the conclusion |
| minor term | the term in a syllogism that is the subject of the conclusion |
| middle term | the term in a syllogism that is common to both premises and excluded from the conclusion |
| 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 |
slang slang expression
slang term | informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions, often vituperative or vulgar, their speech was full of slang expressions |
national
subject | a person who owes allegiance to that nation, a monarch has a duty to his subjects |
| subject case guinea pig | a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures, someone who is an object of investigation, the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly, the cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities |
| term infant | infant born at a gestational age between and completed weeks |
vassal
liege
liegeman
liege subject
feudatory | a person holding a fief, a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord |
| term insurance | lowost insurance that is valid only for a stated period of time and has no cash surrender value or loan value, term insurance is most often associated with life insurance policies |
| half-term | a short vacation about halfway through a school term, he came to visit at half-term |
| semester | half a year, a period of months |
| term | a limited period of time, a prison term, he left school before the end of term |
prison term
sentence
time | the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned, he served a prison term of months, his sentence was toyears, he is doing time in the county jail |
school term
academic term
academic session
session | the time during which a school holds classes, they had to shorten the school term |
| semester | one of two divisions of an academic year |
| term full term | the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent, a healthy baby born at full term |
presidency
presidential term
administration | the tenure of a president, things were quiet during the Eisenhower administration |
vice-presidency
vice-presidential term | the tenure of a vice president |
lease
term of a contract | the period of time during which a contract conveying property to a person is in effect |
tenure
term of office
incumbency | the term during which some position is held |
enlistment
hitch
term of enlistment
tour of duty
duty tour
tour | a period of time spent in military service |
| carry to term | carry out a pregnancy, She decided to carry the child to term, even though the foetus was shown to be defective |
| submit subject | refer for judgment or consideration, The lawyers submitted the material to the court |
| term | name formally or designate with a term |
| subject | make accountable for, He did not want to subject himself to the judgments of his superiors |
| subject | cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to, He subjected me to his awful poetry, The sergeant subjected the new recruits to many drills, People in Chernobyl were subjected to radiation |
subjugate
subject | make subservient, force to submit or subdue |
| subject | likely to be affected by something, the bond is subject to taxation, he is subject to fits of depression |
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 |
short-run
short-term | relating to or extending over a limited period, short-run planning, a short-term lease, short-term credit |
| full-term | gestated for the entire duration of normal pregnancy, a healthy full-term baby |