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example

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example
/ig zam"peuhl, -zahm"-/, n., v., exampled, exampling.
n.
1. one of a number of things, or a part of something, taken to show the character of the whole: This painting is an example of his early work.
2. a pattern or model, as of something to be imitated or avoided: to set a good example.
3. an instance serving for illustration; specimen: The case histories gave carefully detailed examples of this disease.
4. an instance illustrating a rule or method, as a mathematical problem proposed for solution.
5. an instance, esp. of punishment, serving as a warning to others: Public executions were meant to be examples to the populace.
6. a precedent; parallel case: an action without example.
v.t.
7. Rare. to give or be an example of; exemplify (used in the passive).
[1350-1400; ME exa(u)mple < MF example < L exemplum, akin to eximere to take out (ex- EX-1 + emere to buy, orig. take); r. ME exemple < L, as above]
Syn. 1. EXAMPLE, SAMPLE, SPECIMEN refer to an individual phenomenon taken as representative of a type, or to a part representative of the whole. EXAMPLE is used of an object, condition, etc., that is assumed to illustrate a certain principle or standard: a good example of baroque architecture. SAMPLE refers to a small portion of a substance or to a single representative of a group or type that is intended to show what the rest of the substance or the group is like: a sample of yarn. SPECIMEN usually suggests that the "sample" chosen is intended to serve a scientific or technical purpose: a blood specimen; zoological specimens. 2. See ideal. 3. See case1.

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Universalium. 2010.

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Фильмы

  • Soldiers of Resistance., 1980 — About the struggle of fighters of the international resistance movement during the Second World War (1939-1945) by the example of Fyodor Polezhayev, Vasiliy Porik, Yevgeniy Dotsenko and others.
  • A Report From the Caribbean Meridian., 1980 — On the example of Central America countries range, USA intervention into the national liberation struggle of these countries' people for their independence is shown.
  • Thoughts About Russian Cornfield., 1986 — About problems in the agricultural development in the Nonblack Soil Zone (the large agricultural and industrial region in the European part of the USSR) . By the example of collective farms of the Vladimir, Bryansk, Tula, Kaluga and other regions.