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Temple vs Pavilion - What's the difference?

temple | pavilion |

As a proper noun temple

is .

As a noun pavilion is

an ornate tent.

As a verb pavilion is

to furnish with a pavilion.

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.
  • *
    • 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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    pavilion

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an ornate tent
  • a light roofed structure used as a shelter in a public place
  • a structure, sometimes temporary, erected to house exhibits at a fair, etc
  • (cricket) the building where the players change clothes, wait to bat, and eat their meals
  • a detached or semi-detached building at a hospital or other building complex
  • the lower surface of a brilliant-cut gemstone, lying between the girdle and collet
  • (anatomy) the cartiliginous part of the outer ear; auricle
  • (anatomy) The fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.
  • (military) A flag, ensign, or banner.
  • (heraldry) A tent used as a bearing.
  • A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.
  • * Shelley
    • The pavilion of heaven is bare.

    Synonyms

    * (part of ear) auricle, pinna

    Related terms

    * papillon

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to furnish with a pavilion
  • to put inside a pavilion
  • (figuratively) to enclose or surround (after Robert Grant's hymn line "pavilioned in splendour")

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