Theme vs Template - What's the difference?
theme | template |
A subject of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.
A recurring idea; a motif.
(music) The main melody of a piece of music, especially one that is the source of variations.
(film, television) A song, or a snippet of a song, that identifies a film, a TV program, a character, etc. by playing at the appropriate time.
(computing, figuratively) The collection of color schemes, sounds, artwork etc., that "skin" an environment towards a particular motif.
(grammar) The stem of a word
(linguistics) thematic relation of a noun phrase to a verb
(linguistics) Theta role in generative grammar and government and binding theory.
(linguistics) Topic, what is generally being talked about, as opposed to rheme
A regional unit of organisation in the Byzantine empire.
(computing) To apply a theme to; to change the visual appearance and/or layout of (software).
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 theme and template
is that theme is a subject of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic while template is a physical object whose shape is used as a guide to make other objects.As verbs the difference between theme and template
is that theme is to apply a theme to; to change the visual appearance and/or layout of (software) while template is to set up or mark off using a template.theme
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See also
* boilerplate * macro * stencil * cookie cutter *Verb
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