Used in a Sentence

tern

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for tern.

Editorial note

And Bob concludes that the problem is short tern thinking?

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Definitions3
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Any of various seabirds of the subfamily Sterninae (of the family Laridae) that are similar to gulls but are smaller and have a forked tail.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of tern gathered in one view.

noun

Any of various seabirds of the subfamily Sterninae (of the family Laridae) that are similar to gulls but are smaller and have a forked tail.

noun

A river in Shropshire, England, which joins the Severn at Atcham; in full, the River Tern.

noun

(gambling, dated) A lottery prize resulting from the favourable combination of three numbers in the draw.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for tern.

noun

Any of various seabirds of the subfamily Sterninae (of the family Laridae) that are similar to gulls but are smaller and have a forked tail.

noun

A river in Shropshire, England, which joins the Severn at Atcham; in full, the River Tern.

noun

(gambling, dated) A lottery prize resulting from the favourable combination of three numbers in the draw.

Example sentences

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And Bob concludes that the problem is short tern thinking?

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All of these things affect the work atmosphere at Mozilla and in tern the software that is developed there.

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Libraries like tern.js make it doable, but life would be much easier with stronger static guarantees from the language itself.

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Metagenomic studies have only become possible in the past decade, and consequently there haven't been any long tern studies in humans.

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Was discussing this in #node.js on freenode and someone suggested looking at Tern as well.

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There is Tern [0], which is based on acorn [1] by the same author.

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One big ternjs plus for me is the fact that tern.js knows about require.js modules and can look in other require'd files.

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But you could easily add a plugin to tern that tells it the rules for that syntax if you really wanted to.

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Cola in a small dose is universally accepted to cause zero long tern harm.

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Generally you don't use macros that are overly aggressive in modifying scope, or changing the basic rules of JS that tern looks for.

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They in tern send him a tshirt a friendly smile and a handshake.

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However, if they exercise and tern them into actual stock units, I believe they do count.

Quote examples

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You get words like "Pat tern"; I'm shocked at how little they bothered to proof read the digital versions before they sent it out.

Proper noun examples

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Tern.js is pretty solid and is compatible with a bunch of popular editors.

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Tern.js actually detect types, and may be it would be possible for eslint to incorporate it somehow to detect invalid use of types.

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Even if you use something like Tern, it's still really bad.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use tern in a sentence?

And Bob concludes that the problem is short tern thinking?

What does tern mean?

Any of various seabirds of the subfamily Sterninae (of the family Laridae) that are similar to gulls but are smaller and have a forked tail.

What part of speech is tern?

tern is commonly used as noun.