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loge | temple |

As a verb loge

is .

As a proper noun temple is

.

loge

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A booth or stall.
  • The lodge of a concierge.
  • * 1936 , Djuna Barnes, Nightwood , Faber & Faber 2007, p. 70:
    • About three in the morning, Nora knocked at the little glass door of the concierge's loge , asking if the doctor was in.
  • An upscale seating region in a modern concert hall or sports venue, often in the back lower tier, or on a separate tier above the mezzanine.
  • * '>citation
    • In major league stadiums the press box is usually located between the first and second decks in the loge level.
  • An exclusive box or seating region in older theaters and opera houses, having wider, softer, and more widely spaced seats than in the gallery.
  • * '>citation
    • Patte notes that the spectators who were seated there were too close to the action to frame it as real, and that the loges in the avant-scène hampered the effect of the voice.

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    temple

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) temple, from (etyl) templ, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A building for worship.
    • The temple of Zeus was very large.
  • (often, capitalized) The Jewish temple of Jerusalem, first built by Solomon.
  • Something regarded as holding religious presence.
  • Something of importance; something attended to.
    • My body is my temple.
  • (obsolete) A body.
  • * 1602 , (William Shakespeare), , act 1, scene 3, lines 11–14:
    • For nature crescent does not grow alone
    In thews and bulks, but as this temple waxes,
    The inward service of the mind and soul
    Grows wide withal.
  • Hands held together with forefingers outstretched and touching pad to pad, with the rest of the fingers clasped.
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    • Synonyms
    * house of worship
    Derived terms
    * templelike * Temple Mount * Temple of Heaven * temple of immensity
    Related terms
    * temporal * Templar

    Verb

    (templ)
  • To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to.
    • to temple a god
    (Feltham)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) temple, from (etyl) temple, from (etyl) (see "temporal bone" )

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (anatomy) The slightly flatter region, on either side of the head, back of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch and in front of the ear.
  • (ophthalmology) Either of the sidepieces on a set of spectacles, extending backwards from the hinge toward the ears and, usually, turning down around them.
    • Related terms
    * temporal

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) ; compare templet and template.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (weaving) A contrivance used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.

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