Temple
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɛmpəl
Senses: examples: text: The two known human AIDS viruses are evolving at a rapid rate equivalent to that of influenza viruses, said Dr. Temple F. Smith of Harvard's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, an author of a new report on the AIDS virus family tree.
ref: 1988 June 9, Harold M. Schmeck Jr., “Family Tree of AIDS Viruses Is Viewed as 37 to 80 Years Old”, in The New York Times:
text: Temple Dickson, D-Sweetwater, in a broad attack against cigarette companies, said the bill was needed so that taxpayers will not be paying for diseases caused by cigarettes.
ref: 1992 July 11, “Sweetwater senator wants tobacco industry to pay”, in The Victoria Advocate:
text: Bud Abernathy was 10 years old and Temple Abernathy 6 when the brothers from Cross Roads, Okla., decided they wanted to take a trip to New York — by themselves, on horseback — to see ex-President Theodore Roosevelt.
ref: 2002 March, Tom Fleming, “A Wild Ride”, in Boys' Life:
text: With evident pleasure Temple Hauptfleisch presents the variety of theatrical forms to be found in the 'new' South Africa: […] He distinguishes eight categories of forms on the theatrical menu in South Africa: […]
ref: 2003, Joost Smiers, Arts Under Pressure: Protecting Cultural Diversity in the Age of Globalisation, Zed Books, published 2005, →ISBN, page 94:
text: In the 1840s, astronomer Temple Chevallier (1794-1873) experimented with placing a small metal disc in the focus of his telescope's eyepiece to produce an artificial eclipse that would make the protuberances visible on any clear day.
ref: 2011, Barbara J. Becker, Unravelling Starlight: William and Margaret Huggins and the Rise of the New Astronomy, Cambridge University Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 91:
glosses: A male given name from Latin.
examples: text: Temple Hayes, 35, a minister with the Church of Religious Science of West Palm Beach, told the survivors that support and a positive attitude are important in fighting any type of disease.
"In today's times, it is essential that people come together and support each other with like-minded experiences," she said.
ref: 1994, Tracy Bertman, "Cancer survivors celebrate life, dreams, The News, 6 June 1994
text: Dr. Temple Grandin, a university professor who has autism, has plenty of expertise and personal experience with autism, which gives her a unique perspective on the information available.
ref: 2006, Stephen M. Shore, Linda G. Rastelli, Understanding Autism for Dummies, Wiley Publishing, Inc., published 2006, →ISBN, page 346:
text: […] including the 1925 silent film Peacock Feathers, based on the bestselling novel of the same name written by Temple Bailey (1885-1953).
ref: 2007, Kathryn Morris, Debora Richey, & Cathy Thomas, Fullerton, Arcadia Publishing (2007), page 6 (image caption)
glosses: A female given name from Latin.
examples: text: Wildlife biologist Stanley Temple hypothesised that perhaps the dodo tree was dependent on its seeds passing through the digestive system of dodos in order to properly germinate and that the handful of individuals in the 1970s were the last remaining trees from seeds that passed through a dodo in the 1690s-1700s when they went extinct.
ref: 2017 May 3, Mark Carnall, “Finding zombies, ghosts and Elvis in the fossil record”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A surname.
glosses: Places in the United Kingdom:
A suburb of Glasgow, Scotland (OS grid ref NS5469).
glosses: Places in the United Kingdom:
A village in Midlothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT3158).
glosses: Places in the United Kingdom:
A small village in Bisham parish, Windsor and Maidenhead borough, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU8484).
glosses: Places in the United Kingdom:
A small village in Blisland parish, on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX1473).
glosses: Places in the United States:
A city in Carroll County and Haralson County, Georgia.
glosses: Places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Crawford County, Indiana.
glosses: Places in the United States:
A town in Franklin County, Maine.
glosses: Places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Clare County, Michigan.
glosses: Places in the United States:
A town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.
glosses: Places in the United States:
A ghost town in Williams County, North Dakota.
glosses: Places in the United States:
A town in Cotton County, Oklahoma.
glosses: Places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: Places in the United States:
A city in Bell County, Texas, named after Bernard Moore Temple of the Santa Fe Railway.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Derived terms: Temple-Baraitser syndrome