Meaning of مثال in English

One or a portion taken to show the character or quality of the whole; a sample; a specimen.
That which is to be followed or imitated as a model; a pattern or copy.
That which resembles or corresponds with something else; a precedent; a model.
That which is to be avoided; one selected for punishment and to serve as a warning; a warning.
An instance serving for illustration of a rule or precept, especially a problem to be solved, or a case to be determined, as an exercise in the application of the rules of any study or branch of science; as, in trigonometry and grammar, the principles and rules are illustrated by examples.
To set an example for; to give a precedent for; to exemplify; to give an instance of; to instance.
A model, original, or pattern, to be copied or imitated; a specimen; sometimes; an ideal model or type, as that which an artist conceives.
A copy of a book or writing.
Exemplary.
The state or quality of being exemplary; fitness to be an example.
Exemplariness.
The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.
That which exemplifies; a case in point; example.
A copy or transcript attested to be correct by the seal of an officer having custody of the original.
The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.
That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity.
A picture designed to decorate a volume or elucidate a literary work.
Serving to illustrate.
Plumage; feathers.
The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion.
That which is instant or urgent; motive.
Occasion; order of occurrence.
That which offers itself or is offered as an illustrative case; something cited in proof or exemplification; a case occurring; an example.
A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.
To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite; as, to instance a fact.
To give an example.
Procurable.
A comparison; a similitude; specifically, a short fictitious narrative of something which might really occur in life or nature, by means of which a moral is drawn; as, the parables of Christ.
To represent by parable.
Preceding; antecedent; previous.
Going before; anterior; preceding; antecedent; as, precedent services.
Something done or said that may serve as an example to authorize a subsequent act of the same kind; an authoritative example.
A preceding circumstance or condition; an antecedent; hence, a prognostic; a token; a sign.
A rough draught of a writing which precedes a finished copy.
A judicial decision which serves as a rule for future determinations in similar or analogous cases; an authority to be followed in courts of justice; forms of proceeding to be followed in similar cases.
Having a precedent; authorized or sanctioned by an example of a like kind.
Of the nature of a precedent; having force as an example for imitation; as, precedential transactions.
Skepticism; universal doubt.
The quality or state of being similar or like; resemblance; likeness; similarity; as, similitude of substance.
The act of likening, or that which likens, one thing to another; fanciful or imaginative comparison; a simile.
That which is like or similar; a representation, semblance, or copy; a facsimile.