Scalpel vs Template - What's the difference?
scalpel | template |
A small straight knife with a very sharp blade used for surgery, dissection and craftwork.
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.}}
As nouns the difference between scalpel and template
is that scalpel is a small straight knife with a very sharp blade used for surgery, dissection and craftwork while template is a physical object whose shape is used as a guide to make other objects.As a verb template is
to set up or mark off using a template.scalpel
English
(wikipedia scalpel)Noun
(en noun)See also
* bistoury * knifetemplate
English
(wikipedia template)Noun
(en noun)citation
See also
* boilerplate * macro * stencil * cookie cutter *Verb
(templat)citation
