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Grammar : Noun |
Spell : spes-uh-muhn |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈspɛs ə mən |
Definition of specimen
Origin :- 1610s, "pattern, model," from Latin specimen "indication, mark, example, sign, evidence," from specere "to look at" (see scope (n.1)). Meaning "single thing regarded as typical of its kind" first recorded 1650s.
- noun example, sample
- I had no means of preserving a specimen, but I took a drawing of one.
- Extract from : « Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia » by Thomas Mitchell
- But we have here a specimen of the inevitable consequence of sin.
- Extract from : « Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. I » by Francis Augustus Cox
- Here is a specimen of his graceful blending of irony and humor.
- Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume VI (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
- He repaid Hopper with a specimen of his tongue, and flung the writ back at him.
- Extract from : « The Channings » by Mrs. Henry Wood
- What do you think of him, sir, for a specimen of the Dotheboys Hall feeding?
- Extract from : « The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby » by Charles Dickens
- Saying this, he took out of his pocket the specimen of mineral which he had brought with him.
- Extract from : « A Woman Intervenes » by Robert Barr
- I will submit this specimen to Mr. Brand as you desire, and will let you know to-morrow what he says.'
- Extract from : « A Woman Intervenes » by Robert Barr
- The specimen was taken from a pegmatite dike at its contact with an amphibolite.
- Extract from : « The Long Labrador Trail » by Dillon Wallace
- This specimen was 12 inches high when we placed it in the Begonia bed the 22nd, of May.
- Extract from : « The Mayflower, January, 1905 » by Various
- They will hardly attempt to board us, after the specimen they have had of what we can do.
- Extract from : « Homeward Bound » by James Fenimore Cooper
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