Meaning & use
templet
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Meaning
nouncountableold-fashionedrare
An older spelling of template: a pattern used to guide cutting, shaping, drilling, or checking work.
Grammar: Takes a plural in older technical writing: steel templets. Modern texts normally write template.
Patterns
- use a templet
- a metal templet
- templet for something
The machinist clamped a brass templet over the panel.
An old workshop manual still called the guide a templet.
Word forms
| plural | templets |
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Common combinations
- steel templet
- A steel templet kept each bracket identical.
- wooden templet
- He traced the curve from a wooden templet onto the door.
- templet for cutting
- The foreman kept a templet for cutting identical hinges.
Synonyms and how they differ
- template
- Template is the standard modern spelling and is safer in exams, software, and general writing.
- pattern
- A pattern is broader and may guide design or behavior; templet suggests a physical gauge for making copies.
- gauge
- A gauge checks size or shape, while a templet is placed on material to guide the work itself.
Commonly confused: templet or template? templet or temple?
templet vs template
Template is the usual spelling today; templet appears mainly in older engineering or trade texts.
templet vs temple
Temple is a religious building or the side of the forehead, unrelated to a workshop pattern.
Practice
Choose the best modern spelling for this sentence: "Save the letter as a ___ for future invoices."
Choose one answer.
Template is the normal modern spelling for a reusable pattern. Templet is an older variant, temple is unrelated, and tempest means a storm.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “templet”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.