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Example vs Symbolizes - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between example and symbolizes

is that example is to be illustrated or exemplified (by) while symbolizes is (symbolize).

As a noun example

is something that is representative of all such things in a group.

example

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something that is representative of all such things in a group.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author=(Leo Hickman)
    • , volume=189, issue=7, page=26, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= How algorithms rule the world , passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. And, as their ubiquity spreads, so too does the debate around whether we should allow ourselves to become so reliant on them – and who, if anyone, is policing their use.}}
  • Something that serves to illustrate or explain a rule.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan
    • , title= Wild Plants to the Rescue , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
  • Something that serves as a pattern of behaviour to be imitated (a good example) or not to be imitated (a bad example).
  • * Bible, (w) xiii, 15
    • For I have given you an example , that ye should do as I have done to you.
  • * (John Milton)
    • I gave, thou sayest, the example ; I led the way.
  • * 1818 , (Mary Shelley), :
    • Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge,
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.
  • A person punished as a warning to others.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
    • Hang him; he'll be made an example .
  • * Bible, x, 6
    • Now these things were our examples , to the intent that we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
  • A parallel or closely similar case, especially when serving as a precedent or model.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
    • Such temperate order in so fierce a cause / Doth want example .
  • An instance (as a problem to be solved) serving to illustrate the rule or precept or to act as an exercise in the application of the rule.

    • Synonyms

    * See also * See also

    Derived terms

    * for example * make an example of * proof by example * set an example

    Related terms

    * exemplary

    See also

    * exemplar * model * pattern * quotation * template

    Verb

    (exampl)
  • To be illustrated or exemplified (by).

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    symbolizes

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (symbolize)

    • symbolize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * symbolise (UK )

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To be symbolic of; to represent.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
    • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.}}
  • To use symbols; to represent ideas symbolically.
  • (obsolete) To resemble each other in qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • The pleasing of colour symbolizeth' with the pleasing of any single tone to the ear; but the pleasing of order doth ' symbolize with harmony.
  • * Howell
    • They both symbolize in this, that they love to look upon themselves through multiplying glasses.
  • (obsolete) To hold the same faith; to agree.
  • * G. S. Faber
    • The believers in pretended miracles have always previously symbolized with the performers of them.

    Derived terms

    * nonsymbolizing