The difference between Designate and Term
When used as verbs, designate means to mark out and make known, whereas term means to phrase a certain way.
When used as adjectives, designate means designated, whereas term means born or delivered at term.
Term is also noun with the meaning: limitation, restriction or regulation.
check bellow for the other definitions of Designate and Term
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Designate as an adjective:
Designated; appointed; chosen.
Examples:
"rfquotek Sir G. Buck"
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Designate as a verb:
To mark out and make known; to point out; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description
Examples:
"usex to designate the boundaries of a country"
"usex to designate the rioters who are to be arrested"
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Designate as a verb:
To call by a distinctive title; to name.
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Designate as a verb:
To indicate or set apart for a purpose or duty; — with to or for; to designate an officer for or to the command of a post or station.
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Term as a noun:
Limitation, restriction or regulation.
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Term as a noun:
Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
Examples:
"Be sure to read the terms and conditions before signing."
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Term as a noun:
That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary.
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Term as a noun (geometry, archaic):
A point, line, or superficies that limits.
Examples:
"A line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid."
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Term as a noun:
A word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge.
Examples:
"Algorithm" is a term used in computer science."
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Term as a noun:
Relations among people.
Examples:
"We are on friendly terms with each other."
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Term as a noun:
Part of a year, especially one of the three parts of an academic year.
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Term as a noun:
Duration of a set length; period in office of fixed length.
Examples:
"He was [[sentenced]] to a term of six years in [[prison]]."
"near-term, mid-term and long-term goals"
"the term allowed to a debtor to discharge his debt"
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Term as a noun (of a patent):
The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
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Term as a noun (archaic):
A menstrual period.
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Term as a noun (mathematics):
Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.
Examples:
"All the terms of this sum cancel out."
"One only term is odd nobr in ( 12; 3; 4 )."
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Term as a noun (logic):
The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
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Term as a noun (astrology):
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.
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Term as a noun (architecture):
A quadrangular pillar, adorned on top with the figure of a head, as of a man, woman, or satyr.
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Term as a noun (nautical):
A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
Examples:
"rfquotek J. Knowles"
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Term as a verb:
To phrase a certain way; to name or call.
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Term as an adjective (medicine, colloquial):
Born or delivered at term.
Examples:
"term neonate"
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Term as a noun (computing, informal):
terminal
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Term as a verb (ambitransitive):
To terminate one's employment
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Term as a noun:
One whose employment has been terminated