Template vs Modal - What's the difference?
template | modal |
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
, passage=Classically, the functional product of coding genes is a protein whose synthesis is directed by an mRNA-template .}}
To set up or mark off using a .
* {{quote-book, 1994, Howard I. Chapelle, Boatbuilding
, 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.}}
of, or relating to a mode or modus
(grammar) of, relating to, or describing the mood of a clause
(grammar) modal verb
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(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
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
English
(wikipedia template)Noun
(en noun)citation
See also
* boilerplate * macro * stencil * cookie cutter *Verb
(templat)citation
Derived terms
* templatermodal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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. [...]