template

template

For templates on Wiktionary, see Wiktionary:Templates.

English

Template for drawing measured circles

Etymology

Alteration of templet, probably from French templet, diminutive of temple (“a weaver's stretcher”), variant of tempe, from Latin tempora (“temple”). 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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛm.plɪt/, /ˈtɛm.plət/, /ˈtɛm.pleɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛm.plɪt/, /ˈtɛm.plət/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

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?)

   1. (computing) document template (file with a basic outline for a work)
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, 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

5. A strip of metal used in boiler-making, pierced with a series of holes, and serving as a guide in marking out a line of rivet-holes.

Derived terms

• templating (computing)

Translations

physical object

Albanian: stampë (sq) f Arabic: قَالَب‎ m (qālab) Armenian: կաղապար (hy) (kałapar), շաբլոն (hy) (šablon) Assamese: চানেকি (saneki) Azerbaijani: şablon Belarusian: шабло́н m (šablón) Bulgarian: шабло́н (bg) m (šablón) Burmese: အတိုင်း (my) (a.tuing:) Catalan: model (ca) m, patró (ca) m 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), შაბლონი (šabloni) 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) Indonesian: templat 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 (ja) (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) Latvian: veidne f Lithuanian: šablonas (lt) m Luxembourgish: Schabloun (lb) f Macedonian: предлошка f (predloška), шабло́н m (šablón) Malay: templat Maori: matua, tāhua, paparangi 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 (fa) (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) (kałapar) Assamese: চানেকি (saneki) Czech: šablona (cs) f Danish: forlæg n, mønster (da) n, model c Esperanto: ŝablono (eo) Finnish: malli (fi) French: modèle (fr) m German: Vorlage (de) f Hebrew: תַּבְנִית‎ (he) f (tavnít) Hungarian: séma (hu), sablon (hu), minta (hu), templátum Irish: múnla m Italian: modello (it) m, paradigma (it) m Macedonian: предлошка f (predloška), шаблон m (šablon) Malayalam: മാതൃക (ml) (mātr̥ka) Maori: tauira (mi), papatauira Norwegian: mønster (no) n Polish: schemat (pl) m, szablon (pl) m Romanian: șablon (ro) n Russian: шаблон (ru) (šablon) Spanish: patrón (es) m Turkish: şablon (tr) Venetian: modèl m

computing

Finnish: aloituspohja, malli (fi), mallipohja, pohjatiedosto Hungarian: sablon (hu), dokumentumsablon

molecular biology

Finnish: templaatti Hungarian: templát

object-oriented programming: partially defined class/function

Danish: skabelon (da) c Dutch: template (nl) Finnish: malli (fi), malline (fi) French: template (fr) m Macedonian: предлошка f (predloška), шаблон m (šablon) Portuguese: template (pt) m Romanian: șablon (ro) n Vietnamese: bản mẫu, khuôn mẫu (vi)

See also

• boilerplate
• cookie cutter
• generics
• macro
• schema (and scheme)
• stencil

 

Verb

template (third-person singular simple present templates, present participle templating, simple past and past participle templated)

1. To set up or mark off using a template.
   • 1994, Howard I. Chapelle, Boatbuilding‎, →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:10.1016/S0022-4596(02)00060-9:

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

Derived terms

• templater

Anagrams

• palmette

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French

Etymology

Anglicism (English template). Possibly a doublet of templet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛm.plɛt/, /tɑ̃.plɛt/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

template m (plural templates)

1. (object-oriented programming) template