different between example vs caveat

English

Etymology

From Middle English exaumple, example, from Old French essample (French exemple), from Latin exemplum (“a sample, pattern, specimen, copy for imitation, etc.”, literally “what is taken out (as a sample)”), from exim? (“take out”), from ex (“out”) + em? (“buy; acquire”); see exempt. Displaced native Middle English bisne, forbus, forbusen from Old English b?sen, and Middle English byspel from Old English b?spell. Doublet of exemplum and sample.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???z??mpl?/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /???z??mp?/
• (General Australian, US, weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /???zæmpl?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???zæmpl?/
• Rhymes: -??mp?l, -æmp?l
• Hyphenation: ex?am?ple

Noun

example (plural examples)

1. Something that is representative of all such things in a group.
2. Something that serves to illustrate or explain a rule.
3. Something that serves as a pattern of behaviour to be imitated (a good example) or not to be imitated (a bad example).
4. A person punished as a warning to others.
5. A parallel or closely similar case, especially when serving as a precedent or model.
6. An instance (as a problem to be solved) serving to illustrate the rule or precept or to act as an exercise in the application of the rule.

Synonyms

• e.g.
• See also Thesaurus:model
• See also Thesaurus:exemplar

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• exemplar
• model
• pattern
• quotation
• template

Verb

example (third-person singular simple present examples, present participle exampling, simple past and past participle exampled)

1. To be illustrated or exemplified (by).

Further reading

• example in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• example in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• exempla

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin caveat (“may he beware of”), from cave? (“I beware of”), from Proto-Italic *kaw?? (“to beware, be mindful of”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh?- (“to perceive; to pay attention”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kæv?æt/, /?ke?-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kævi?t/, /-æt/
• Rhymes: -æt, -??t
• Hyphenation: ca?ve?at

Noun

caveat (plural caveats)

1. A warning.
2. A qualification or exemption.
3. (law) A formal objection.
   1. (law) A formal notice of interest in land under a Torrens land-title system.
4. (law) A notice requesting a postponement of a court proceeding.

Translations

Verb

caveat (third-person singular simple present caveats, present participle caveating or caveatting, simple past and past participle caveated or caveatted)

1. (transitive, regarded by some as nonstandard) To qualify a statement with a caveat or proviso.
2. (transitive, law) To formally object to something.
   1. (transitive, law, specifically) To lodge a formal notice of interest in land under a Torrens land-title system.
3. (transitive, law, dated) To issue a notice requesting that proceedings be suspended.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To warn or caution against some event.

Usage notes

The modern use of caveat as a verb meaning “to qualify with a proviso” is often considered awkward or improper.

Derived terms

Related terms

• caveat emptor
• caveat lector
• caveat loan

Translations

See also

• caveating (noun)

References

• Bryan A. Garner, editor (2004) , “caveat”, in Black's Law Dictionary, 8th edition, St. Paul, Minn.: West Group, ?ISBN, page 236.
• Bryan A. Garner (2001) , “caveat”, in A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage, 2nd edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, ?ISBN, page 140.

Further reading

• caveat (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• vacate

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ka.u?e.at/, [?käu?eät?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ka.ve.at/, [?k??v??t?]

Verb

caveat

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of cave?

Spanish

Noun

caveat m (plural caveats)

1. caveat