All 5 Uses of
specimen
in
The Time Machine
- Yet these people were clothed in pleasant fabrics that must at times need renewal, and their sandals, though undecorated, were fairly complex specimens of metalwork.†
Chpt 5 *specimens = examples regarded as typical of their class
- One corner I saw was charred and shattered; perhaps, I thought, by an explosion among the specimens.†
Chpt 8
- The Psychologist leant forward to see, holding out his hand for a specimen.†
Chpt 12specimen = an example regarded as typical of its class
- If you'll stop to lunch I'll prove you this time travelling up to the hilt, specimen and all.†
Chpt 12
- At the risk of disappointing Richardson I stayed on, waiting for the Time Traveller; waiting for the second, perhaps still stranger story, and the specimens and photographs he would bring with him.†
Chpt 12specimens = examples regarded as typical of their class
Definition:
an example thought to represent its type; or a bit of tissue, blood, or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes