T vs. Tenure — What's the Difference?

T, or t, is the twentieth letter in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Its name in English is tee (pronounced ), plural tees.

The act, fact, manner, or condition of holding something in one's possession, as real estate or an office; occupation.

The twentieth letter of the alphabet.

A period during which something is held.

A shape like that of a capital T

The status of holding one's position on a permanent basis without periodic contract renewals

The 20th letter of the modern English alphabet.

A status of possessing a thing or an office; an incumbency.

Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter t.

A period of time during which something is possessed.

The 20th in a series.

A status of having a permanent post with enhanced job security within an academic institution.

Something shaped like the letter T.

A right to hold land under the feudal system.

Abbreviation of time

(transitive) To grant tenure, the status of having a permanent academic position, to (someone).

, ton.

The act or right of holding, as property, especially real estate.

(UK) T, tonne.

The manner of holding lands and tenements of a superior.

(historical) tomin

The consideration, condition, or service which the occupier of land gives to his lord or superior for the use of his land.

The twentieth letter of the English alphabet, is a nonvocal consonant. With the letter h it forms the digraph th, which has two distinct sounds, as in thin, then. See Guide to Pronunciation, 262-264, and also 153, 156, 169, 172, 176, 178-180.

Manner of holding, in general; as, in absolute governments, men hold their rights by a precarious tenure.

A base found in DNA (but not in RNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine

The term during which some position is held

One of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose)

The right to hold property; part of an ancient hierarchical system of holding lands

A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms

Give life-time employment to;

A unit of information equal to a trillion (1,099,511,627,776) bytes or 1024 gigabytes

The 20th letter of the Roman alphabet

Thyroid hormone similar to thyroxine but with one less iodine atom per molecule and produced in smaller quantity; exerts the same biological effects as thyroxine but is more potent and briefer

Hormone produced by the thyroid glands to regulate metabolism by controlling the rate of oxidation in cells;