Temple vs Timple - What's the difference?
temple | timple |
A building for worship.
(often, capitalized) The Jewish temple of Jerusalem, first built by Solomon.
Something regarded as holding religious presence.
Something of importance; something attended to.
(obsolete) A body.
* 1602 , (William Shakespeare), , act 1, scene 3, lines 11–14:
Hands held together with forefingers outstretched and touching pad to pad, with the rest of the fingers clasped.
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To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to.
(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.
As nouns the difference between temple and timple
is that temple is a building for worship while timple is a traditional musical instrument of the Canary Islands and Murcia. It usually has five strings, but some have four. It is similar in size to a ukulele but has a distinctive semi-round back. A common tuning for five-string timple is A/D/F#/B/E.As a verb temple
is to build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to.As a proper noun Temple
is a given name derived from Latin.temple
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) temple, from (etyl) templ, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- The temple of Zeus was very large.
- My body is my temple.
- 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.
Synonyms
* house of worshipDerived terms
* templelike * Temple Mount * Temple of Heaven * temple of immensityVerb
(templ)- to temple a god
- (Feltham)