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for example

prep_phrase
/fəɹ ɪɡˈzɑːm.p(ə)l/UK/ˌfoɹ ɪɡˈzæm.pəl/CA/ˌfoːɹ ɪɡˈzæm.pəl/

Etymology

First attested in the second half of the 16th century.

Definitions

  1. As an example.

    • The book has quite a few plot holes. For example, it's never explained why the main character came to town.
    • The more highly the injured part is endowed with sensory nerves the more marked is the shock; a crush of the hand, for example, is attended with a more intense degree of shock than a correspondingly severe crush of the foot
    • For a structuralist like Edmund Leach, the structure is the meaning. Genesis, for example, is about incest taboos; all the rest is noise and mystification.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for for example. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA