Specimen

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An individual, item, or part representative of a class, genus, or whole. See Synonyms at example.
  • n. A sample, as of tissue, blood, or urine, used for analysis and diagnosis.
  • n. Informal An individual; a person: a disagreeable specimen.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
  • n. A sample, especially one used for diagnostic analysis.
  • n. An eligible man.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A part, or small portion, of anything, or one of a number of things, intended to exhibit the kind and quality of the whole, or of what is not exhibited; a sample.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A part or an individual taken as exemplifying a whole mass or number: something that represents or illustrates all of its kind; an illustrative example: as, a collection of geological specimens; a wild specimen of the human or of the feline race; a specimen page of a book (a page shown as a specimen of what the whole is or is to be); a specimen copy of a medal.
  • n. In zoology and botany, an individual animal or plant, or some part of one, prepared and preserved for scientific examination; an example of a species or other group; a preparation: as, a specimen of natural history; a specimen of the dog or the rose. Abbreviated sp. and spec.
  • n. A typical individual; one serving as a specially striking or exaggerated example of the kind indicated.
  • n. Synonyms Specimen, Sample. A specimen is a part of a larger whole employed to exhibit the nature or kind of that of which it forms a part, without reference to the relative quality of individual portions; thus, a cabinet of mineralogical specimens exhibits the nature of the rocks from which they are broken. A sample is a part taken out of a quantity, and implies that the quality of the whole is to be judged by it, and not rarely that it is to be used as a standard for testing the goodness, genuineness, or purity of the whole, and the like. In many cases, however, the words are used indifferently. Sample is more often used in trade: as, a sample of cotton or coffee.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a bit of tissue or blood or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes
  • n. an example regarded as typical of its class
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    model    pattern    sample    example   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    collection    example    sample    variety    piece    species    description    picture    illustration    fragment