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Template vs Modal - What's the difference?

template | modal |

As nouns the difference between template and modal

is that template is a physical object whose shape is used as a guide to make other objects while modal is a modal proposition.

As a verb template

is to set up or mark off using a template.

As an adjective modal is

of, or relating to a mode or modus.

template

Noun

(en noun)
  • A physical object whose shape is used as a guide to make other objects.
  • A generic model or pattern from which other objects are based or derived.
  • (molecular biology) A macromolecule which provides a pattern for the synthesis of another molecule.
  • * {{quote-journal, 2002, S. Lottin et al., Thioredoxin post-transcriptional regulation by H19 provides a new function to mRNA-like non-coding RNA, Nature, volume=21, issue=10 citation
  • , passage=Classically, the functional product of coding genes is a protein whose synthesis is directed by an mRNA-template .}}

    See also

    * boilerplate * macro * stencil * cookie cutter *

    Verb

    (templat)
  • To set up or mark off using a .
  • * {{quote-book, 1994, Howard I. Chapelle, Boatbuilding citation
  • , passage=Only that part of the floor timber that bears on the planking and keel need be templated ;
  • To provide a template or pattern for.
  • * {{quote-journal, 2003, Yu Wang et al., Synthesis and characterization of a new layered gallium phosphate templated by cobalt complex, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, volume=170, issue=1, doi=10.1016/S0022-4596(02)00060-9
  • , passage=Metal phosphates that are templated by transition-metal complexes are rare.}}

    Derived terms

    * templater

    modal

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of, or relating to a mode or modus
  • (grammar) of, relating to, or describing the mood of a clause
  • (grammar) modal verb
  • *
  • Using the same type of distributional criterion, we could argue that only a Verb (in its base form) can occur in the position marked — in (23) below to complete the sentence:
    (23)     They/it can —
    [...]
    Conversely, the only type of word which could be used to begin a three-word sentence such as (25) below:
    (25)     — I be frank?
    is a Modal : cf. [...]
  • (music) of, relating to, or composed in the musical modi by which an octave is divided, associated with emotional moods in Ancient — and in medieval ecclesiastical music
  • (logic) of, or relating to the modality between propositions
  • (statistics) relating to the statistical mode.
  • (computing) Having separate modes in which user input has different effects.
  • (computer science) requiring immediate user interaction (often used as modal dialog'' or ''modal window )
  • (metaphysics) Relating to the form of a thing rather to any of its attributes
  • Synonyms

    * forming * conditioning

    Derived terms

    * modality * modally * modal auxiliary * modal logic * modal particle * quasimodal

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (logic) A modal proposition
  • (linguistics) A modal form, notably a modal auxiliary.
  • Anagrams

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