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stereotype
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French stéréotype. Printing sense is from 1817, the “conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image” sense is recorded from 1922 in Walter Lippmann's book Public Opinion.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?st?.?i.??ta?p/, /?st??.?i.??ta?p/
Noun
stereotype (countable and uncountable, plural stereotypes)
- A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person).
- Synonyms: cliché, platitude
- (psychology) A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.
- (printing) A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.
- Synonym: cliché
- (software engineering) An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language, allowing a new element to be derived from an existing one with added specializations.
Derived terms
- stereotypic
- stereotypical
Translations
Verb
stereotype (third-person singular simple present stereotypes, present participle stereotyping, simple past and past participle stereotyped)
- (transitive) To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.
- (transitive, printing) To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.
- (transitive, printing) To print from a stereotype.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make firm or permanent; to fix.
- 1887, George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, Scotland as it was and as it is
- Powerful causes tending to stereotype and aggravate the poverty of old conditions.
- 1887, George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, Scotland as it was and as it is
Translations
References
Swedish
Adjective
stereotype
- absolute definite natural masculine form of stereotyp.
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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:
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- what is the supernatural in macbeth
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