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English Dictionary: specimen by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
specimen
n
  1. an example regarded as typical of its class
  2. a bit of tissue or blood or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes; "they collected a urine specimen for urinalysis"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Specimen \Spec"i*men\, n. [L., fr. specere to look, to behold.
      See {Spy}.]
      A part, or small portion, of anything, or one of a number of
      things, intended to exhibit the kind and quality of the
      whole, or of what is not exhibited; a sample; as, a specimen
      of a man's handwriting; a specimen of painting; aspecimen of
      one's art.
  
      Syn: Sample; model; pattern.
  
      Usage: {Specimen}, {Sample}. A specimen is a representative
                  of the class of things to which it belongs; as, a
                  specimen of photography. A sample is a part of the
                  thing itself, designed to show the quality of the
                  whole; as, a sample of sugar or of broadcloth. A
                  cabinet of minerals consists of specimens; if a part
                  be broken off from any one of these, it is a sample of
                  the mineral to which it belongs. [bd]Several persons
                  have exhibited specimens of this art before multitudes
                  of beholders.[b8] --Addison. [bd]I design this but for
                  a sample of what I hope more fully to discuss.[b8]
                  --Woodward.
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