template

English

Template for drawing measured circles

Etymology

Alteration of templet, probably from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French templet, diminutive of temple (“a weaver's stretcher”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin templum (“a small timber, tie-beam, a purlin”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *temp- (“to pull, stretch”). Alteration of second syllable due to analogy with plate. Cognate with Faroese tamba (“to stretch out, relax”), Icelandic þamb (“a stretched, bloated, or extended belly”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛmplɪt/, /ˈtɛmplət/, /ˈtɛmpleɪt/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

template (plural templates)

1. A physical object whose shape is used as a guide to make other objects.
2. A generic model or pattern from which other objects are based or derived.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

3. (molecular biology) A macromolecule which provides a pattern for the synthesis of another molecule.
   • 2002, S. Lottin et al., “Thioredoxin post-transcriptional regulation by H19 provides a new function to mRNA-like non-coding RNA”, in Nature‎^[1], volume 21, number 10:

     Classically, the functional product of coding genes is a protein whose synthesis is directed by an mRNA-template.

4. (object-oriented programming) A partially defined class or function, that can be instantiated in a variety of ways depending on the instantiation arguments.

   A template is a blueprint or formula for creating a generic class or a function. “C++ Templates”, in tutorialspoint, 2016

Derived terms

• templating (computing)

Related terms

• template cache (computing)

Translations

physical object

• Albanian: stampë (sq) f
• Arabic: قَالَب m (qālab)
• Armenian: կաղապար (hy) (kaġapar)
• Azerbaijani: şablon
• Belarusian: шабло́н m (šablón)
• Bulgarian: шабло́н (bg) m (šablón)
• Burmese: အတိုင်း (my) (a.tuing:)
• Catalan: plantilla (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 模板 (zh) (múbǎn), 型板 (zh) (xíngbǎn)

• Czech: šablona (cs) f
• Danish: skabelon (da) c
• Dutch: sjabloon (nl) n, malplaatje n
• Esperanto: ŝablono (eo)
• Estonian: mall (et), šabloon (et)
• Finnish: malline (fi), sapluuna (fi)
• French: gabarit (fr) m, calibre (fr) m, patron (fr) m, réglette (fr) f, modèle (fr)
• Galician: modelo m
• Georgian: თარგი (targi)
• German: Vorlage (de) f, Schablone (de) f
• Greek: πρότυπο (el) n (prótypo)
• Hebrew: תַּבְנִית (he) f (tavnít)
• Hindi: साँचा (hi) m (sā̃cā)
• Hungarian: sablon (hu)
• Ido: shablono (io)
• Interlingua: patrono
• Irish: teimpléad m
• Italian: mascherina f, sagoma (it) f, modello (it) m, stampo (it) m, calibro (it) m
• Japanese: 型板 (かたばん, kataban), 雛形 (ひながた, hinagata), テンプレート (tenpurēto)
• Kazakh: үлгі (ülgı)
• Korean: 템플렛 (tempeullet), 샘플 (saempeul), 틀 (ko) (teul)
• Kyrgyz: калып (ky) (kalıp)
• Lao: ແມ່ແບບ (mǣ bǣp), ແບບ (bǣp)
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• Latvian: veidne f
• Lithuanian: šablonas (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Schabloun f
• Macedonian: предлошка f (predloška), шабло́н (mk) m (šablón)
• Malay: templat
• Maori: matua
• Middle Persian: h'mgwn
• Mongolian: загвар (mn) (zagvar)
• Navajo: bee álnééhé
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mal (no) m, sjablong m

  Nynorsk: mal m, sjablong m

• Persian: قالب (fa) (qâleb), شابلون (šâblon)
• Polish: szablon (pl) m
• Portuguese: modelo (pt) m, predefinição (pt) f, molde (pt) m, gabarito (pt) m
• Romanian: model (ro) n, format (ro) n, șablon (ro) n
• Russian: шабло́н (ru) m (šablón)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шаблон m, подлога f

  Roman: šablon (sh) m, podloga (sh) f

• Slovak: šablóna f
• Slovene: predloga f
• Spanish: plantilla (es) f
• Swedish: mall (sv) c, schablon (sv) c, mönster (sv) n (textiles)
• Tagalog: suleras
• Thai: แม่แบบ (th) (mɛ̂ɛ-bɛ̀ɛp)
• Turkish: şablon (tr)
• Ukrainian: шабло́н (uk) m (šablón)
• Venetian: modèl m
• Vietnamese: bản mẫu, khuôn mẫu (vi)
• Walloon: modele (wa) m, patron m
• Welsh: templed (cy) m, patrymlun (cy) m

generic model

• Armenian: կաղապար (hy) (kaġapar)
• Czech: šablona (cs) f
• Esperanto: ŝablono (eo)
• Finnish: malli (fi)
• French: modèle (fr) m
• German: Vorlage (de) f
• Hebrew: תַּבְנִית (he) f (tavnít)
• Irish: múnla m
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• Italian: modello (it) m, paradigma (it) m
• Macedonian: предлошка f (predloška), шаблон (mk) m (šablon)
• Maori: tauira, papatauira
• Norwegian: mønster (no) n
• Romanian: șablon (ro) n
• Spanish: patrón (es) m
• Venetian: modèl m

molecular biology

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

object-oriented programming

• Danish: skabelon (da) c
• Dutch: template (nl)
• French: template (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Macedonian: предлошка f (predloška), шаблон (mk) m (šablon)
• Portuguese: template (pt) m
• Vietnamese: bản mẫu, khuôn mẫu (vi)

See also

• boilerplate
• macro
• stencil
• cookie cutter
• Wiktionary:Templates

Verb

1. To set up or mark off using a template.
   • 1994, Howard I. Chapelle, Boatbuilding‎^[2], →ISBN, page 368:

     Only that part of the floor timber that bears on the planking and keel need be templated; […]

2. To provide a template or pattern for.
   • 2003, Yu Wang et al., “Synthesis and characterization of a new layered gallium phosphate templated by cobalt complex”, in Journal of Solid State Chemistry, volume 170, number 1, →DOI:

     Metal phosphates that are templated by transition-metal complexes are rare.

Derived terms

• templater

Anagrams

• palmette

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑ̃.plat/

Noun

template m (plural templates)

1. (object-oriented programming) template