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temple | sample |

As a proper noun temple

is .

As an initialism sample is

(emergency medicine) initialism of signs and symptoms, allergies, medications, past pertinent history, last oral intake, events leading to present illness .

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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    sample

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A part of anything taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen; as, goods are often purchased by samples.
    • "I design this but for a sample of what I hope more fully to discuss." -Woodward.
  • (statistics) A subset of a population selected for measurement, observation or questioning, to provide statistical information about the population.
    • "...it is possible it [the Anglo-Saxon race] might stand second to the Scandinavian countries [in average height] if a fair sample of their population were obtained." Francis Galton et al. (1883). Final Report of the Anthropometric Committee, Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 269.
  • (cooking) a small piece of food for tasting, typically given away for free
  • (business) a small piece of some goods, for determining quality, colour, etc., typically given away for free
  • (music) Gratuitous borrowing of easily recognised phases (or moments) from other music (or movies) in a recording, used to emphasize a particular point by implying a certain context.
  • (obsolete) Example; pattern.
  • * Shakespeare
    • a sample to the youngest
  • * Fairfax
    • Thus he concludes, and every hardy knight / His sample followed.

    Synonyms

    * specimen * example

    Verb

  • To make or show something similar to; to match.
  • To take or to test a sample or samples of; as, to sample sugar, teas, wool, cloth.
  • (signal processing) To reduce a continuous signal (such as a sound wave) to a discrete signal.
  • To reuse a portion of (an existing sound recording) in a new song.

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