Word Meanings - EXEMPLAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. A model, original, or pattern, to be copied or imitated; a specimen; sometimes; an ideal model or type, as that which an artist conceives. Such grand exemplar as make their own abilities the sole measure of what is fit or unfit. South. 2. A
Additional info about word: EXEMPLAR
1. A model, original, or pattern, to be copied or imitated; a specimen; sometimes; an ideal model or type, as that which an artist conceives. Such grand exemplar as make their own abilities the sole measure of what is fit or unfit. South. 2. A copy of a book or writing. Udall.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXEMPLAR)
- Pattern
- Model
- sample
- archetype
- exemplar
- specimen
- shape
- precedent
- mould
- design
- plan
- Specimen
- Sample
- mode
- pattern
- model
- illustration
- instance
- type
- Standard
- Measure
- gauge
- criterion
- test
- rule
- banner
- flag
- scale
- plummet
- trutination
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EXEMPLAR)
- Misfit
- misconform
- mismeasure
- misdeal
- misapportion
- Pervert
- distort
- misadapt
- misdelineate
- derange
- discompose
- misconstrue
- misproduce
- caricature
Related words: (words related to EXEMPLAR)
- INSTANCE
1. The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion. Undertook at her instance to restore them. Sir W. Scott. 2. That which is instant or urgent; motive. The instances that second marriage - GAUGE
To measure the dimensions of, or to test the accuracy of the form of, as of a part of a gunlock. The vanes nicely gauged on each side. Derham. 4. To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it, as cloth or a garment. 5. To measure - DERANGER
One who deranges. - DESIGN
drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace - DERANGEMENT
The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity; - BANNERED
Decorated with a banner or banners "bannered host." Milton. - ARCHETYPE
The standard weight or coin by which others are adjusted. (more info) 1. The original pattern or model of a work; or the model from which a thing is made or formed. The House of Commons, the archetype of all the representative assemblies which - DESIGNATE
Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck. - BANNEROL
A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole. - SHAPE
is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and - DERANGED
Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb. - GAUGER
One who gauges; an officer whose business it is to ascertain the contents of casks. - PRECEDENTLY
Beforehand; antecedently. - GAUGEABLE
Capable of being gauged. - STANDARD
The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend, - PATTERN
A full-sized model around which a mold of sand is made, to receive the melted metal. It is usually made of wood and in several parts, so as to be removed from the mold without injuring it. Pattern box, chain, or cylinder , devices, in a loom, for - TRUTINATION
The act of weighing. Sir T. Browne. - SCALEBOARD
A thin slip of wood used to justify a page. Crabb. 2. A thin veneer of leaf of wood used for covering the surface of articles of firniture, and the like. Scaleboard plane, a plane for cutting from a board a wide shaving forming a scaleboard. - MEASURER
One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market. - MISCONSTRUER
One who misconstrues. - MOLDINESS; MOULDINESS
The state of being moldy. - MOLDER; MOULDER
One who, or that which, molds or forms into shape; specifically , one skilled in the art of making molds for castings. - SPINDLE-SHAPED
Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle. - GUNTER'S SCALE
A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter , a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant. Note: Gunter's scale is a wooden rule, two feet long, on one side of which are marked scales - HOOD MOLDING; HOOD MOULDING
A projecting molding over the head of an arch, forming the outermost member of the archivolt; -- called also hood mold. - DIAMOND-SHAPED
Shaped like a diamond or rhombus. - STRAP-SHAPED
Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla. - MOLD; MOULD
mulm, OHG. molt, molta, Icel. mold, Dan. muld, Sw. mull, Goth. mulda, prevalent spelling is, perhaps, mould; but as the u has not been inserted in the other words of this class, as bold, gold, old, cold, etc., it seems desirable to complete the - BED-MOLDING; BED-MOULDING
The molding of a cornice immediately below the corona. Oxf. Gloss.