English words for 'The study of alphabetic writing.'
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- Of or from Latin America or of Latin American culture.
- Of or relating to Latin: the language spoken in ancient Rome and other cities of Latium.
- (Christianity) Roman Catholic; of or pertaining to the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church.
- Of or relating to ancient Rome or its Empire.
- Of or relating to Latium (modern Lazio), the region around Rome.
- Of or relating to the customs and people descended from the ancient Romans and their Empire.
- Of or relating to the script of the language spoken in ancient Rome and many modern alphabets.
- of or relating to the ancient Latins or the Latin language
- of or relating to the ancient region of Latium
- relating to languages derived from Latin
- relating to people or countries speaking Romance languages
- A person from Latin America.
- (Christianity) A person adhering to Roman Catholic practice.
- (historical) A person native to ancient Rome or its Empire.
- (historical) A member of an Italic tribe that included the early inhabitants of the city of Rome, and from about 1000 BC inhabited the region known as Old Latium.
- A person from one of the modern European countries (including Italy, Spain etc.) whose language is descended from Latin.
- any dialect of the language of ancient Rome
- an inhabitant of ancient Latium
- a person who is a member of those peoples whose languages derived from Latin
- Transcription written in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
- (beer, countable) Initialism of India pale ale.
- An IPA file, or an iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, or tvOS app distributed via IPA files.
- (organic chemistry, uncountable) Initialism of isophthalic acid.
- (organic chemistry, uncountable) Initialism of isopropyl acetate.
- (organic chemistry, uncountable) Initialism of isopropyl alcohol.
- The practice of representing the letters of an alphabet using just the hands to spell out words.
- Any system for representing the letters of an alphabet using just the hands; a manual alphabet that is a representation of a written alphabet.
- A representation of the spelling of a word using such a system.
- an alphabet of manual signs
- (uncountable) Excessive reliance upon the alphabet or alphabetic structures.
- (uncountable) Discrimination on the basis of the first letter of a name.
- (countable) An initialism: an abbreviation which is read letter by letter, such as UN.
- (uncountable) The ability to read an alphabet, a rudimentary form of literacy.
- write in the Latin alphabet
- translate into Latin
- cause to adopt Catholicism
- (transitive) To render or become Roman Catholic in form or style or to diffuse Roman Catholic ideas in something.
- (transitive) To translate something into the Latin language; or make a word similar in appearance or form to a Latin word.
- (transitive) To transliterate something into the characters of the Latin script; to Romanize
- the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech
- a strictly literal interpretation (as distinct from the intention)
- a written message addressed to a person or organization
- owner who lets another person use something (housing usually) for hire
- an award earned by participation in a school sport
- A written or printed communication, usually defined as longer and more formal than a note. (Sometimes specifically one that is on paper.)
- (US, uncountable) A size of paper, 8½ in × 11 in (215.9 mm × 279.4 mm).
- (Canada, uncountable) A size of paper, 215 mm × 280 mm.
- (US, scholastic) Clipping of varsity letter.
- One who lets, or lets out.
- (in the plural) Literature.
- (law) A division unit of a piece of law marked by a letter of the alphabet.
- A symbol in an alphabet.
- The literal meaning of something, as distinguished from its intended and remoter meaning (the spirit).
- Used before a numeral.
- One; used before score, dozen, hundred, thousand, million, etc.
- An unspecified example of (something); the indefinite article.
- The same; one and the same. Used in phrases such as of a kind, birds of a feather, etc.
- Used in some adverbial phrases denoting the degree or extent of an action, such as a little, a bit, a lot, etc.
- One; someone named; used before a person's name, suggesting that the speaker knows little about the person other than the name.
- Any; every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope.
- Used before an adjective modifying a person's name, typically used to emphasize that person's current condition or emotional state.
- Someone or something like; similar to; used before a proper noun to create an example out of it.
- Any; used with a negative to indicate not a single one.
- Used in some phrases denoting quantity, such as a few, a good many, a couple, a little, a bit, etc.
- Used before an adjective that modifies a noun (singular or plural) delimited by a numeral.
- one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
- wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
- assets available for use in the production of further assets
- a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
- the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
- a seat of government
- (countable, by extension) The chief or most important thing.
- (countable) An uppercase letter.
- (uncountable, economics) Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as tools and bulldozers (equipment) and office buildings (structures).
- (countable) A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.
- (uncountable, politics) The capitalist class; investors considered collectively with respect to their societal (economic, political, cultural, etc.) influence.
- (countable, architecture) The uppermost part of a column.
- (uncountable) Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.
- (countable) The most important city in the field specified.
- (uncountable, business, finance, insurance, economics) Money and wealth: the means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
- a word that is written with three letters in an alphabetic writing system
- (linguistics) A trigraph, a sequence of three letters representing one phoneme.
- (computational linguistics) An n-gram consisting of three items from a sequence.
- (divination) Any of the eight combinations of three complete or broken lines forming half of a hexagram in Chinese system of divination I Ching.
- a word that is written with four letters in an alphabetic writing system
- A group of four letters.
- In the Taixuanjing, a sequence of four lines, each of which may be unbroken, broken once, or broken twice. Each sequence is interpreted as an element of the sets of solid lines (⚊ for Heaven), once-broken lines (⚋ for Earth) and twice-broken lines (𝌀 for Man) formed by combinations of four monograms (two digrams or bigrams, in other words) in the divination of the Taixuanjing.
- The set of letters used when writing in a language.
- A writing system in which letters represent phonemes. (Contrast e.g. logography, a writing system in which each character represents a word, and syllabary, in which each character represents a syllable.)
- The simplest rudiments; elements.
- A writing system in which there are letters for the consonant and vowel phonemes. (Contrast e.g. abjad.)
- (Internet slang, politics) An agent of the FBI, the CIA, or another such government agency.
- (dialectal, nonstandard, India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia) An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.
- (computer science) A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.
- a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language
- the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural)
- Acre.
- (sexuality) Asexual.
- (UK, chiefly London) Arsehole.
- Answer.
- (physics) Angstrom.
- (sports) An assist.
- Ace. (including in card games)
- Adult; as used in film rating.
- (weaponry) Atom.
- Ammeter.
- a metric unit of length equal to one ten billionth of a meter (or 0.0001 micron); used to specify wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation
- the basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
- the 1st letter of the Roman alphabet
- (biochemistry) purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with thymine in DNA and with uracil in RNA
- any of several fat-soluble vitamins essential for normal vision; prevents night blindness or inflammation or dryness of the eyes
- nucleotide derived from adenine with a deoxyribose sugar and a phosphate group
- the blood group whose red cells carry the A antigen
- (medicine) A blood type that has a specific antigen that aggravates the immune response in people with type B antigen in their blood. People with this blood type may receive blood from type A or type O but cannot receive blood from AB or B.
- A rank, normally the highest rank, on any of various scales that assign letters.
- (logic) A universal affirmative suggestion.
- (education) The highest letter grade assigned (disregarding plusses and minuses).
- (music) A tone three fifths above C in the cycle of fifths; the sixth tone of the C major scale; the first note of the minor scale of A minor; the reference tone that occurs at exactly 440 Hz; the printed or written note A; the scale with A as its keynote.
- (chiefly US) Alternative spelling of A.M. and AM (“ante meridiem”).
- (chemistry) Mass number.
- Allele dominant.
- (historical) Abbreviation of adulterer or adulteress, used as a human brand.
- The twenty-second letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets.
- (Taiwan) The Taiwanese unit of length standardized as ¹⁰/₃₃ of a meter, identical to the Japanese shaku.
- (philosophy, mysticism) A life force in traditional Chinese philosophy, culture, medicine, etc, related (but not limited) to breath and circulation.
- Clipping of chihuahua.
- (Mainland China) The Chinese unit of length standardized in 1984 as ¹/₃ of a meter.
- (Hong Kong) The chek or Hong Kong foot, a unit of length standardized as 0.371475 meters.
- The Chinese foot, a traditional Chinese unit of length based on the human forearm.
- the circulating life energy that in Chinese philosophy is thought to be inherent in all things; in traditional Chinese medicine the balance of negative and positive forms in the body is believed to be essential for good health
- the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet
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- The practice of representing the letters of an alphabet using just the hands to spell out words.
- Any system for representing the letters of an alphabet using just the hands; a manual alphabet that is a representation of a written alphabet.
- A representation of the spelling of a word using such a system.
- an alphabet of manual signs
- (uncountable) Excessive reliance upon the alphabet or alphabetic structures.
- (uncountable) Discrimination on the basis of the first letter of a name.
- (countable) An initialism: an abbreviation which is read letter by letter, such as UN.
- (uncountable) The ability to read an alphabet, a rudimentary form of literacy.
- the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech
- a strictly literal interpretation (as distinct from the intention)
- a written message addressed to a person or organization
- owner who lets another person use something (housing usually) for hire
- an award earned by participation in a school sport
- A written or printed communication, usually defined as longer and more formal than a note. (Sometimes specifically one that is on paper.)
- (US, uncountable) A size of paper, 8½ in × 11 in (215.9 mm × 279.4 mm).
- (Canada, uncountable) A size of paper, 215 mm × 280 mm.
- (US, scholastic) Clipping of varsity letter.
- One who lets, or lets out.
- (in the plural) Literature.
- (law) A division unit of a piece of law marked by a letter of the alphabet.
- A symbol in an alphabet.
- The literal meaning of something, as distinguished from its intended and remoter meaning (the spirit).
- one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
- wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
- assets available for use in the production of further assets
- a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
- the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
- a seat of government
- (countable, by extension) The chief or most important thing.
- (countable) An uppercase letter.
- (uncountable, economics) Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as tools and bulldozers (equipment) and office buildings (structures).
- (countable) A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.
- (uncountable, politics) The capitalist class; investors considered collectively with respect to their societal (economic, political, cultural, etc.) influence.
- (countable, architecture) The uppermost part of a column.
- (uncountable) Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.
- (countable) The most important city in the field specified.
- (uncountable, business, finance, insurance, economics) Money and wealth: the means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
- a word that is written with three letters in an alphabetic writing system
- (linguistics) A trigraph, a sequence of three letters representing one phoneme.
- (computational linguistics) An n-gram consisting of three items from a sequence.
- (divination) Any of the eight combinations of three complete or broken lines forming half of a hexagram in Chinese system of divination I Ching.
- a word that is written with four letters in an alphabetic writing system
- A group of four letters.
- In the Taixuanjing, a sequence of four lines, each of which may be unbroken, broken once, or broken twice. Each sequence is interpreted as an element of the sets of solid lines (⚊ for Heaven), once-broken lines (⚋ for Earth) and twice-broken lines (𝌀 for Man) formed by combinations of four monograms (two digrams or bigrams, in other words) in the divination of the Taixuanjing.
- The set of letters used when writing in a language.
- A writing system in which letters represent phonemes. (Contrast e.g. logography, a writing system in which each character represents a word, and syllabary, in which each character represents a syllable.)
- The simplest rudiments; elements.
- A writing system in which there are letters for the consonant and vowel phonemes. (Contrast e.g. abjad.)
- (Internet slang, politics) An agent of the FBI, the CIA, or another such government agency.
- (dialectal, nonstandard, India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia) An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.
- (computer science) A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.
- a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language
- the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural)
- Transcription written in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
- (beer, countable) Initialism of India pale ale.
- An IPA file, or an iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, or tvOS app distributed via IPA files.
- (organic chemistry, uncountable) Initialism of isophthalic acid.
- (organic chemistry, uncountable) Initialism of isopropyl acetate.
- (organic chemistry, uncountable) Initialism of isopropyl alcohol.
- The twenty-second letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets.
- (Taiwan) The Taiwanese unit of length standardized as ¹⁰/₃₃ of a meter, identical to the Japanese shaku.
- (philosophy, mysticism) A life force in traditional Chinese philosophy, culture, medicine, etc, related (but not limited) to breath and circulation.
- Clipping of chihuahua.
- (Mainland China) The Chinese unit of length standardized in 1984 as ¹/₃ of a meter.
- (Hong Kong) The chek or Hong Kong foot, a unit of length standardized as 0.371475 meters.
- The Chinese foot, a traditional Chinese unit of length based on the human forearm.
- the circulating life energy that in Chinese philosophy is thought to be inherent in all things; in traditional Chinese medicine the balance of negative and positive forms in the body is believed to be essential for good health
- the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet
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- write in the Latin alphabet
- translate into Latin
- cause to adopt Catholicism
- (transitive) To render or become Roman Catholic in form or style or to diffuse Roman Catholic ideas in something.
- (transitive) To translate something into the Latin language; or make a word similar in appearance or form to a Latin word.
- (transitive) To transliterate something into the characters of the Latin script; to Romanize
- The set of letters used when writing in a language.
- A writing system in which letters represent phonemes. (Contrast e.g. logography, a writing system in which each character represents a word, and syllabary, in which each character represents a syllable.)
- The simplest rudiments; elements.
- A writing system in which there are letters for the consonant and vowel phonemes. (Contrast e.g. abjad.)
- (Internet slang, politics) An agent of the FBI, the CIA, or another such government agency.
- (dialectal, nonstandard, India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia) An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.
- (computer science) A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.
- a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language
- the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural)
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