Template Definition
templit, templāt
templates
noun
templates
A pattern, usually in the form of a thin plate of metal, wood, plastic, etc., for forming an accurate copy of an object or shape.
Webster's New World
A document or file having a preset format, used as a starting point for a particular application so that the format does not have to be recreated each time it is used.
A loan amortization template for a spreadsheet program.
American Heritage
A short piece of stone, timber, or metal placed under a beam to help distribute the pressure.
Webster's New World
A beam for supporting joists over an open space, as a doorway.
Webster's New World
An overlay that fits over all or part of a keyboard and has labels describing the functions of each key within a particular application.
American Heritage
verb
To set up or mark off using a template.
Wiktionary
To provide a template or pattern for.
Wiktionary
Origin of Template
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Alteration of templet, probably from French templet, diminutive of temple (“a weaver's stretcher"), from Latin templum (“a small timber, tie-beam, a purlin"), from 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").
From Wiktionary
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Probably from French templet diminutive of temple temple of a loom temple3
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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