term
/tɜɹm/ verb C2- To phrase a certain way; to name or call.
He/she/it terms · Past termed · Past participle termed · -ing form terming
Verb forms
- Base form
- term
- He/she/it
- terms
- Past
- termed
- Past participle
- termed
- -ing form
- terming
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“But during my visit to you the day before yesterday, sir, which you appear to recollect so well,” replied Eugénie, “I saw you arranging a deposit—is not that the term?—of five millions and a half; you even pointed it out to me in two drafts on the treasury, and you were astonished that so valuable a paper did not dazzle my eyes like lightning.”
It didn’t say ‘horrible’: that’s not a recognized official term.
Instead of having watered his cabbage with arsenic, he had watered it this time with a solution of salts, having their basis in strychnine, strychnos colubrina, as the learned term it.
He is going to turn his house into a Badhaus, as the Germans term it.
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