different between example vs fingerspelling
example
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)
- Something that is representative of all such things in a group.
- Something that serves to illustrate or explain a rule.
- Something that serves as a pattern of behaviour to be imitated (a good example) or not to be imitated (a bad example).
- A person punished as a warning to others.
- A parallel or closely similar case, especially when serving as a precedent or model.
- 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)
- 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
example From the web:
- what examples of the supernatural appear in macbeth
- what examples demonstrate tubman's heroism
- how is the supernatural shown in macbeth
- what is the supernatural in macbeth
fingerspelling
English
Etymology
finger +? spelling
Noun
fingerspelling (countable and uncountable, plural fingerspellings)
- The practice of representing the letters of the alphabet using just the hands to spell out words.
- Any system for representing the letters of the alphabet using just the hands.
- A representation of the spelling of a word using just the hands.
Synonyms
- dactylology
Translations
fingerspelling From the web:
- fingerspelling meaning
- fingerspelling what does it mean
- what is fingerspelling used for
- what is fingerspelling in asl
- what is fingerspelling used for in asl
- what is fingerspelling in health and social care
- what is fingerspelling in auslan
- what does fingerspelling
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