Word Finder - example

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Something that is representative of all such things in a group.

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Something that serves to illustrate or explain a rule.

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Something that serves as a pattern of behaviour to be imitated (a good example) or not to be imitated (a bad example).

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A person punished as a warning to others.

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A parallel or closely similar case, especially when serving as a precedent or model.

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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.

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To be illustrated or exemplified (by).

Now that was a good example of her imagination working over time.

The most important example is trust.

It was yet another example of the way their marriage continued to mature.

A poor example of being objective.

Some people have exceptional abilities we do not understand—for example, savants.

Could someone in the class give me a silly example of a simile?

In jest, he stated that Jonathan was merely seeking the best fashion example he could find.

The building was a superb example of craftsmanship from an era when quality was meant to survive those skilled men who proudly worked it.

The presentation of some object of dread, for example, to the eye has or may have a double effect.

Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need, though it be your example which leaves them far behind.

This was one more example of Howie turning away from anything that might prove uncomfortable.

One would think that as an artillery officer you would set a good example, yet here you are without your boots!

Everybody followed his example and they looked at one another in surprise.

If Cortez were an example of what lay ahead, no one would go hungry.

An example of a railway built.

For example, the seared tuna dish uses fresh yellowfish tuna paired with traditional wasabi sauce and seaweed salad but ignites the flavors with a house-made vinaigrette.

No. It's just an example.

It is often convenient to regard compounds as formed upon certain types; alcohol, for example, may be said to be a compound formed upon the water type, that is to say, a compound formed from water by displacing one of the atoms of hydrogen by the group of elements C 2 H 5, thus - H C2H5 O H O H Water Alcohol.

Substitution of the Benzene Ring.-As a general rule, homologues and mono-derivatives of benzene react more readily with substituting agents than the parent hydrocarbon; for example, phenol is converted into tribromphenol by the action of bromine water, and into the nitrophenols by dilute nitric acid; similar activity characterizes aniline.

These "apparelled albs" (albae paratae) continued in general use in the Western Church till the 16th century, when a tendency to dispense with the parures began, Rome itself setting the example.

In early times the son who denied his father had his front hair shorn, a slave-mark put on him, and could be sold as a slave; while if he denied his mother he had his front hair shorn, was driven round the city as an example and expelled his home, but not degraded to slavery.

With the success of this undertaking in view it is a matter of wonder that the example set in this instance has not been adopted to a much greater extent elsewhere.

The town of Bourke, lying on the upper Darling, may be taken as an example of many of the interior districts, and illustrates peculiarly well the defects as well as the excellencies of the climate of the whole region.

When two substances which by their action upon each other develop much heat enter into reaction, the reaction is usually complete without the employment of an excess of either; for example, when a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen, in the proportions to form water 2E12+0, =20H2, is exploded, it is entirely converted into water.

For example, when u = o, M = o, N =o, and consequently G =H = 2.

He lowered his head to give thanks for the food and everyone followed his example.

King Hart is another example of the later allegory, and, as such, of higher literary merit.

Organs used to be regarded as contrary to New Testament example, but their use is now all but universal.

Historically the battle is interesting because it was the last example of an encounter on a great scale between fleets of galleys and also because it was the last crusade.

It was found in some abundance at the end of the 18th century in the copper mines of the St Day district in Cornwall, and has since been found at a few other localities, for example, at Konigsberg near Schemnitz in Hungary, and in the Tintic district in Utah.

In New South Wales, whose example was followed by Western Australia, the machinery adopted for fixing the statutory rate of wages was of a somewhat different type.

Following the example of William of Orange, Hoorn, Berghen and other governors, the magistrates generally declined to enforce the edicts, and offered to resign rather than be the instruments for burning and maltreating their fellow-countrymen.

The example Siege Haarlem of Haarlem was followed by Alkmaar, and with better and success.

To his translation (1530) of a Latin Chronicle and Description of Turkey, by a Transylvanian captive, which had been prefaced by Luther, he added an appendix holding up the Turks as in many respects an example to Christians, and presenting in lieu of the restrictions of Lutheran, Zwinglian and Anabaptist sects, the vision of an invisible spiritual church, universal in its scope.

If, for example, the processus pyramidalis was abnormally small and the processus papillaris abnormally large, it pointed to a reversion of the natural order, to wit, that the servant should control the master or that the son would be above the father.

If, for example, the porta hepatis was long on the right side and short on the left side, it was a good sign for the king's army, but if short on the right side and long on the left, it was unfavourable; and similarly for a whole series of phenomena connected with any one of the various subdivisions of the liver.

Aston Hall, erected by Sir Thomas Holte in 1618-1635, is an admirable architectural example of its period, built of red brick.

The "Marble Arch" cave near Florencecourt, with its emerging river, is a characteristic example of the subterranean waterways in the limestone.

Dunbar attested his constancy and gave proof that Cromwell was a master of the tactics of all arms. Preston was an example like Austerlitz of the two stages of a battle as defined by Napoleon, the first flottante, the second foudroyante.

In addition to these complete commentaries, we have fragments of some others (of that on Isaiah, for example), principally met with in catenae.

However, someone may come along and edit the material to for example, combine the writings of two or more individuals into a single piece.

In cases where the density of the air is not of average value, as on a high mountain, or with an exceptionally low barometer for example, an allowance must be made.

A simple example of the transformation of kinetic energy into potential energy, and vice versa, is afforded by the pendulum.

For example, does the heat generated by friction vary as the friction and the time during which it acts, or is it proportional to the friction and the distance through which the rubbing bodies are displaced - that is, to the work done against friction - or does it involve any other conditions?

For example, it has often been said that the extent to which their orchestral viola parts double the basses is due, partly to bad traditions of Italian opera, and partly to the fact that viola players were, more often than not, simply persons who had failed to play the violin.

A good example of a fairly typical case is afforded by Heterodera schachtii, which attacks beetroot and causes great loss to the Continental sugar manufacturers.

Another and somewhat similar example is furnished by what has been variously designated as the " string," toy," " lovers," and " mechanical " telephone.

A good example may be made with two cylindrical tin cups; the bottoms form the membranes and the cups the mouthpieces.

All creatures he called his "brothers" or "sisters" - the chief example is the poem of the "Praises of the Creatures," wherein "brother Sun," "sister Moon," "brother Wind," and "sister Water" are called on to praise God.

To priests and choristers, for example, of the proprietary or endowed orders were assigned 24 per annum if they were upwards of sixty years of age, 16 if upwards of 40, and 14, 8s.