English words for 'Inscribed with hieroglyphs.'
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adj
noun
- writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible)
- Any symbol used in this system; a hieroglyph.
- a writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt
- (by extension) Undecipherable handwriting or secret symbol.
- (chiefly in the plural) A writing system of ancient Egypt, Minoans, Maya and other civilizations, using pictorial symbols to represent individual sounds, often as a rebus.
noun
verb
noun
verb
noun
- a cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics; used especially by the priests
- (historical) A writing system used in pharaonic Egypt that was developed alongside the hieroglyphic system, primarily written in ink with a reed brush on papyrus, allowing scribes to write quickly without resorting to the time consuming hieroglyphs.
adj
- associated with the priesthood or priests
- adhering to fixed types or methods; highly restrained and formal
- written or belonging to a cursive form of ancient Egyptian writing
- (art) Extremely stylized, restrained or formal; adhering to fixed types or methods; severe in emotional import.
- Of or pertaining to priests or other religious authorities, especially pharaonic priests of Ancient Egypt.
- Of or pertaining to the cursive writing system that developed alongside the hieroglyphic system as its ordinary handwritten counterpart.
adj
- Of an inscription: engraved on stone.
- Of a piece of writing or a writing style: characteristic of or suitable for an inscription; embodying the precision and refinement of inscriptions on monuments; concise and stately.
- (of speech or writing, uncommon) Succinct, laconic.
- Of or pertaining to gems and precious stones, or the art of working them.
- of or relating to precious stones or the art of working with them
noun
noun
- an inscription written above something else
- the activity of superscribing
- An editorial addition at the beginning, often indicating the authorship of a piece.
- Something written (or engraved) on the surface, outside, or above something else; specifically, an address on a letter, envelope, etc.
- The act of superscribing.
noun
- Initialism of Cretan Hieroglyphic.
- (set theory) Initialism of continuum hypothesis.
- (medicine) Initialism of cluster headache.
- (US, military, aviation) Initialism of cargo helicopter.
- Initialism of central heating.
- (Commonwealth, postnominal) Initialism of companion of honour.
- (nautical) Abbreviation of heavy cruiser.
name
noun
- letters inscribed (especially words engraved or carved) on something
- Text carved on a wall or plaque, such as a memorial or gravestone, or on some other item.
- the activity of inscribing (especially carving or engraving) letters or words
- a short message (as in a book or musical work or on a photograph) dedicating it to someone or something
- Words written in the front of a book as a dedication.
- The act of inscribing.
- The text on a coin.
noun
- an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia
- (anatomy) A wedge-shaped bone, especially a cuneiform bone.
- An ancient Mesopotamian writing system, adapted within several language families, originating as pictograms in Sumer around the 30th century BC, evolving into more abstract and characteristic wedge shapes formed by a blunt reed stylus on clayen tablets.
adj
noun
- (Egyptology, hieroglyphs) An oval figure containing the characters of an important personal name, such as that of royal or divine people.
- (firearms) A wooden case filled with balls, to be shot from a cannon.
- (architecture) An ornamental figure, often on an oval shield.
- (cartography) A decorative emblem on a globe or map.
- (firearms) A gunner's bag for ammunition.
- (military) A military pass for a soldier on furlough.
- (cooking) A parchment disc placed on top of food to limit evaporation, or to prevent a skin forming on soups and stews.
- (firearms) A paper cartridge.
- a cartridge (usually with paper casing)
noun
- a conventional Ancient Egyptian dedicatory text inscribed on funerary objects, beginning with the phrase ḥtp ḏj or ḥtp ḏj nswt and indicating a funerary gift authorized by the king and provided by the funerary establishment of a local god
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see offering, formula.
noun
adj
name
noun
- A plate or frame on which a title or inscription is carved.
- A table, index, or list of data.
- A legal record.
- (uncountable, historical) An ancient Roman game similar to backgammon that was played on a board with 24 divisions.
- (zoology) One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids.
- A writing-tablet, slate, or similar medium on which to write.
- A frontal; a drapery for an altar.
noun
- A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls, especially in Stam style.
- (chiefly US) A vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).
- (heading) Signature.
- The last line (or last two lines) of a song's chorus that is repeated to indicate the end of the song.
- (heading) Physical appendage.
- (slang) A person's name.
- (computing) A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.
- Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.
- (informal, authorship) An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought").
- (biochemistry) Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins.
- (computing) A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information enabling keyword-based classification; often used to categorize content.
- A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
- A small label.
- Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist.
- Something mean and paltry; the rabble, originally refer to rag as torn cloth.
- A sheep in its first year.
- (uncountable) A game, especially for children on playgrounds, in which one player (known as "it") attempts to touch another, who then becomes "it"; any similar game of chasing and trying to reach, touch, shoot, or label other players.
- The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
- (television) The last scene of a TV program, often focusing on the program's subplot.
- A type of cardboard.
- A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
- (baseball) An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand to rule him "out."
- A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
- a small piece of cloth
- a label associated with something for the purpose of identification
- a label written or printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic that is attached to something to indicate its owner, nature, price, etc.
- a game in which one child chases the others; the one who is caught becomes the next chaser
- (sports) the act of touching a player in a game (which changes their status in the game)
verb
- (transitive) To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.
- (transitive) To remove dung tags from a sheep.
- (transitive, baseball, colloquial) To hit the ball hard.
- (transitive, computing) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).
- (transitive, baseball) To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
- (transitive, Internet) To attach the name of (a user) to a posted message so that they are linked from the post and possibly sent a notification.
- (transitive) To mark (something) with one's graffiti tag.
- (transitive) To fasten; to attach.
- (transitive, vulgar, slang, 1990s) to have sex with someone (especially a man of a woman)
- (transitive, online gaming, slang) To make contact with an enemy, usually by attacking it before other players do, to establish exclusive or partial eligibility for loot, experience points achievements, etc.
- To follow closely, accompany, tag along.
- (transitive) To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
- (transitive) To label (something).
- (transitive, music) To repeat (the ending of a song); to play a tag
- touch a player while they are holding the ball
- go after with the intent to catch
- attach a tag or label to
- provide with a name or nickname
- supply (blank verse or prose) with rhymes
noun
verb
noun
verb
adj
noun
- writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible)
- Any symbol used in this system; a hieroglyph.
- a writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt
- (by extension) Undecipherable handwriting or secret symbol.
- (chiefly in the plural) A writing system of ancient Egypt, Minoans, Maya and other civilizations, using pictorial symbols to represent individual sounds, often as a rebus.
noun
verb
noun
- a cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics; used especially by the priests
- (historical) A writing system used in pharaonic Egypt that was developed alongside the hieroglyphic system, primarily written in ink with a reed brush on papyrus, allowing scribes to write quickly without resorting to the time consuming hieroglyphs.
adj
- associated with the priesthood or priests
- adhering to fixed types or methods; highly restrained and formal
- written or belonging to a cursive form of ancient Egyptian writing
- (art) Extremely stylized, restrained or formal; adhering to fixed types or methods; severe in emotional import.
- Of or pertaining to priests or other religious authorities, especially pharaonic priests of Ancient Egypt.
- Of or pertaining to the cursive writing system that developed alongside the hieroglyphic system as its ordinary handwritten counterpart.
noun
- an inscription written above something else
- the activity of superscribing
- An editorial addition at the beginning, often indicating the authorship of a piece.
- Something written (or engraved) on the surface, outside, or above something else; specifically, an address on a letter, envelope, etc.
- The act of superscribing.
noun
- Initialism of Cretan Hieroglyphic.
- (set theory) Initialism of continuum hypothesis.
- (medicine) Initialism of cluster headache.
- (US, military, aviation) Initialism of cargo helicopter.
- Initialism of central heating.
- (Commonwealth, postnominal) Initialism of companion of honour.
- (nautical) Abbreviation of heavy cruiser.
name
noun
- letters inscribed (especially words engraved or carved) on something
- Text carved on a wall or plaque, such as a memorial or gravestone, or on some other item.
- the activity of inscribing (especially carving or engraving) letters or words
- a short message (as in a book or musical work or on a photograph) dedicating it to someone or something
- Words written in the front of a book as a dedication.
- The act of inscribing.
- The text on a coin.
noun
- an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia
- (anatomy) A wedge-shaped bone, especially a cuneiform bone.
- An ancient Mesopotamian writing system, adapted within several language families, originating as pictograms in Sumer around the 30th century BC, evolving into more abstract and characteristic wedge shapes formed by a blunt reed stylus on clayen tablets.
adj
noun
- (Egyptology, hieroglyphs) An oval figure containing the characters of an important personal name, such as that of royal or divine people.
- (firearms) A wooden case filled with balls, to be shot from a cannon.
- (architecture) An ornamental figure, often on an oval shield.
- (cartography) A decorative emblem on a globe or map.
- (firearms) A gunner's bag for ammunition.
- (military) A military pass for a soldier on furlough.
- (cooking) A parchment disc placed on top of food to limit evaporation, or to prevent a skin forming on soups and stews.
- (firearms) A paper cartridge.
- a cartridge (usually with paper casing)
noun
- a conventional Ancient Egyptian dedicatory text inscribed on funerary objects, beginning with the phrase ḥtp ḏj or ḥtp ḏj nswt and indicating a funerary gift authorized by the king and provided by the funerary establishment of a local god
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see offering, formula.
noun
adj
name
noun
- A plate or frame on which a title or inscription is carved.
- A table, index, or list of data.
- A legal record.
- (uncountable, historical) An ancient Roman game similar to backgammon that was played on a board with 24 divisions.
- (zoology) One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids.
- A writing-tablet, slate, or similar medium on which to write.
- A frontal; a drapery for an altar.
noun
- A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls, especially in Stam style.
- (chiefly US) A vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).
- (heading) Signature.
- The last line (or last two lines) of a song's chorus that is repeated to indicate the end of the song.
- (heading) Physical appendage.
- (slang) A person's name.
- (computing) A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.
- Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.
- (informal, authorship) An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought").
- (biochemistry) Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins.
- (computing) A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information enabling keyword-based classification; often used to categorize content.
- A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
- A small label.
- Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist.
- Something mean and paltry; the rabble, originally refer to rag as torn cloth.
- A sheep in its first year.
- (uncountable) A game, especially for children on playgrounds, in which one player (known as "it") attempts to touch another, who then becomes "it"; any similar game of chasing and trying to reach, touch, shoot, or label other players.
- The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
- (television) The last scene of a TV program, often focusing on the program's subplot.
- A type of cardboard.
- A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
- (baseball) An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand to rule him "out."
- A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
- a small piece of cloth
- a label associated with something for the purpose of identification
- a label written or printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic that is attached to something to indicate its owner, nature, price, etc.
- a game in which one child chases the others; the one who is caught becomes the next chaser
- (sports) the act of touching a player in a game (which changes their status in the game)
verb
- (transitive) To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.
- (transitive) To remove dung tags from a sheep.
- (transitive, baseball, colloquial) To hit the ball hard.
- (transitive, computing) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).
- (transitive, baseball) To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
- (transitive, Internet) To attach the name of (a user) to a posted message so that they are linked from the post and possibly sent a notification.
- (transitive) To mark (something) with one's graffiti tag.
- (transitive) To fasten; to attach.
- (transitive, vulgar, slang, 1990s) to have sex with someone (especially a man of a woman)
- (transitive, online gaming, slang) To make contact with an enemy, usually by attacking it before other players do, to establish exclusive or partial eligibility for loot, experience points achievements, etc.
- To follow closely, accompany, tag along.
- (transitive) To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
- (transitive) To label (something).
- (transitive, music) To repeat (the ending of a song); to play a tag
- touch a player while they are holding the ball
- go after with the intent to catch
- attach a tag or label to
- provide with a name or nickname
- supply (blank verse or prose) with rhymes
noun
verb
noun
verb
adj
noun
- writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible)
- Any symbol used in this system; a hieroglyph.
- a writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt
- (by extension) Undecipherable handwriting or secret symbol.
- (chiefly in the plural) A writing system of ancient Egypt, Minoans, Maya and other civilizations, using pictorial symbols to represent individual sounds, often as a rebus.
adj
- Of an inscription: engraved on stone.
- Of a piece of writing or a writing style: characteristic of or suitable for an inscription; embodying the precision and refinement of inscriptions on monuments; concise and stately.
- (of speech or writing, uncommon) Succinct, laconic.
- Of or pertaining to gems and precious stones, or the art of working them.
- of or relating to precious stones or the art of working with them