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From beginning to the end.
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Alternative form of ABC [(uncountable, countable, usually plural in Canada, US) The English alphabet.]
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Alternative form of ABC [(uncountable, countable, usually plural in Canada, US) The English alphabet.]
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(mathematics) A nomogram.
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A book that teaches the alphabet; a primer.
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(obsolete) Alternative form of absey (“alphabet book”) [(obsolete) ABC; alphabet.]
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(plural only) Letters; writing; the skill of literacy.
adj
Pertaining to the alphabet, or several alphabets.
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An inscription consisting of the letters of an alphabet, almost always listed in order.
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An acrostic poem in which the lines begin with the letters of the alphabet in sequence.
adj
Referring to the alphabet; alphabetical; related to or resembling an abecedarius; abecedarian.
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The system of abjad numerals; a numeral system in which the letters of the Arabic abjad are interpreted as numerals, typically used to enumerate lists and nested lists, as well as in numerology.
adj
Of or relating to an abjad (writing system with glyphs for consonants).
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(obsolete) ABC; alphabet.
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(obsolete) An ABC book; abecedary; a primer.
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The naming of letters in an alphabetic writing system using words whose initial sounds are represented by the respective letters.
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Noodles shaped like letters of the alphabet.
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A variant form of a letter (or other grapheme).
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Abbreviation of alphanumeric. [An alphanumeric character.]
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The alpha privative, the prefix a-.
v
(rare) To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.
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(US) Any of a number of US federal government agencies created as part of the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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A type of soup that contains noodles in the shape of various alphabetical letters, sometimes also numbers.
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One who is learning the alphabet; an abecedarian.
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(obsolete) alphabetic; rudimentary
adj
Of or relating to an alphabet, especially the characters A to Z, both uppercase and lowercase.
adj
Pertaining to, furnished with, or expressed by letters of the alphabet.
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The sequence of a collection of items (such as words in a dictionary) arranged in order by position in the alphabet.
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(rare) One who deals with the alphabet in some way, for example by attempting to make a series of utterances beginning with each letter of the alphabet in order.
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(rare) The quality of being alphabetic.
adj
Obsolete form of alphabetic. [Of or relating to an alphabet, especially the characters A to Z, both uppercase and lowercase.]
adj
Having the form of a developed alphabet or its letters, as opposed to crude pictographic symbols.
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The act or process of arranging in alphabetical order.
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(Britain) Arranged in alphabetical order.
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Excessive reliance upon the alphabet or alphabetic structures.
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Someone who practices alphabetism, discrimination on the basis of the first letter of a name.
adj
That can be alphabetized.
v
(US, Canada) To arrange words or items in order of the first (and then subsequent) letters as they occur in the alphabet.
adj
Resembling an alphabet.
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The letters of a word, or any other set of letters, arranged in alphabetical order.
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Alternative form of alphanumeric [Consisting of, or limited to, letters and/or numbers, especially the characters A to Z (lowercase and uppercase) and 0 to 9.]
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alphanumeric / alphanumerical
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A puzzle that presents an arithmetic problem with letters in place of the digits, the reader challenged to deduce which digit corresponds to each letter.
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A display made up of text characters combined with simple block graphics, as used in certain videotex systems.
adj
Consisting of only letters and numbers; alphanumeric.
adv
In an alphanumeric / alphanumerical manner; using alphanumeric / alphanumerical characters.
adj
In alphabetical order.
adj
Alternative form of analphabetic [(not comparable) (of symbols) Not alphabetic.]
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The number obtained by summing the numerical values of the letters of a word.
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(computing, art) A form of letter art that uses only ASCII characters.
adj
(computing, informal, of a sorting) According to the order of the ASCII table.
adv
Alternative letter-case form of asciibetically [(computing, informal) In an asciibetical way.]
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a simple substitution cipher in which each occurrence of the first letter of the alphabet is substituted with the last, second with next to last, and so on.
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A subset of English with restricted syntax and semantics described by a small set of formal rules, suitable for knowledge representation and specification or as a query language.
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(writing) The tendency to use capital letters gratuitously.
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(obsolete) A letter or character.
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(countable) A written or printed symbol, or letter.
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A measure of the number of characters that are represented in a specified unit of text stream.
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A type of crossword puzzle where the letters of the alphabet are represented by numbers and the solver must identify them by their position and frequency.
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(computational linguistics) A bag of words comprised of the words in the vicinity of a specific target.
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The symbol 🄯, a horizontally mirrored copyright symbol, denoting copyleft.
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(grammar) The hidden or non-obvious aspects of the grammar of a language.
adj
Having the digamma or its representative letter or sound.
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(computing) A two-character sequence used to enter a single conceptual character.
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A kind of word puzzle involving pictures or typography that hint at the solution.
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A letter whose uppercase version is "I" and lowercase version is "ı". A letter "I"/"i" without the lowercase dot, that is used in the Turkish language.
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The classical Greek alphabet, a modified form of the Ionic alphabet adopted by Athens in 403 BC following its defeat in the Peloponnesian War.
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The technique of assisting a person with a disability to communicate by helping them to point out letters of the alphabet on a board so as to spell a message.
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Any system for representing the letters of an alphabet using just the hands; a manual alphabet that is a representation of a written alphabet.
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Synonym of Fraser script
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(linguistics) The Glagolitic writing system, the oldest known Slavonic alphabet.
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The 27-letter alphabet of the Gothic language.
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A letter or sequence of letters which sound like a word when the names of the letters are said out loud in sequence. Examples: IOU ("I owe you"), K9 ("canine")
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A fundamental unit of a writing system, corresponding to (for example) letters in the English alphabet or jamo in Korean Hangeul.
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(historical, countable) Other ("epichoric") forms of this alphabet, both prior and subsequent, sometimes they include:
adj
(US) Alternative spelling of Greek-letter [(US) Of or relating to a fraternity, sorority, or honor society.]
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(computing) A text character or string that looks identical to another when rendered.
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The symbol "‐", typically used to join two or more words to form a compound term, or to indicate that a word has been split at the end of a line.
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The ICAO radiotelephony spelling alphabet of the International Civil Aviation Organization. This alphabet assigns names to letters of the alphabet for clearer enunciation (and for the same reason pronounces the numeral 9 as "niner"):
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A lemniscate; the figure ∞ that represents infinity.
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A standardized set of symbols for representing the sounds of human speech.
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(countable) Transcription written in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
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Alternative form of kissogram [A message delivered along with a kiss, usually arranged as a surprise on a special occasion.]
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(linguistics) Initialism of keyword in context: a list of phrases obtained by searching a corpus, each containing the node (or word of interest) and its surrounding cotext.
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(computing, countable) A computer language; a machine language.
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The Latin alphabet or writing system.
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Any relatively minor variation of the 26-letter Latin alphabet.
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A symbol in an alphabet.
adj
(rare) Regarding letters of the alphabet.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a letter of the alphabet.
adj
Befitting or characterised by letters (posted messages).
adj
In terms of letters of the alphabet.
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(countable) A system of writing in which there is a one-to-one correspondence between symbols and words.
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(typography) A letter that orthography requires or allows to be ligated with one or more other letters to form a ligature, such as a in æ or o in œ.
adj
(uncommon) Consisting of, or expressed by, letters (of an alphabet)
n
The minuscule or small letters (a, b, c, as opposed to the uppercase or capital letters, A, B, C).
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A capital letter, especially one used in ancient manuscripts.
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(dactology) An alphabet, or a representation of a written alphabet, in which letters are represented by positions of the hand and fingers.
adj
(cryptography) Of a substitution cipher, using the same fixed mappings from plaintext to cipher letters across the entire text.
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(education) A set of usually wooden or plastic letters of the alphabet, with the vowels and consonants in different colors, used to teach reading and writing in the Montessori system.
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Alternative form of movable alphabet [(education) A set of usually wooden or plastic letters of the alphabet, with the vowels and consonants in different colors, used to teach reading and writing in the Montessori system.]
adj
Comprising or relating to more than one alphabet.
adj
Comprising or relating to more than one alphabet.
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The ICAO spelling alphabet.
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(retronym, linguistics) Any human language that has evolved naturally in a community, usually in contrast to computer programming languages, to controlled natural languages, and to constructed languages such as Esperanto (although constructed languages are subject to change by natural forces among fluent speakers).
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(countable, more broadly) A set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, capitalization, emphasis, hyphenation, punctuation, and word breaks.
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A sentence that contains every letter of the alphabet.
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A spelling alphabet: a set of code words used to substitute the names of the letters of the alphabet, usually for clarity of communication when spelling out words.
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A group of words that are used to identify the letters of an alphabet.
adj
Describing a substitution cipher in which plaintext letters in different positions are enciphered using different substitution alphabets.
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A writing system that was used before an alphabet, or later developed into an alphabet.
adj
Synonym of prealphabetic
n
A text character invented for language recognition tests, etc. and not occurring in real-world writing.
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A sign or symbol that has the characteristics of a letter but is not in any alphabet
n
The process of realphabetizing.
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A dictionary in which entries are sorted alphabetically by their last letter, then second-to-last, and so on: Nausicaa would precede Hecuba, which would precede orca; influenza would precede cab, and so on.
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Synonym of Latin alphabet
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Synonym of Latin alphabet
adj
written in the Latin alphabet
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An apostrophe-like symbol (Ꞌ or ꞌ) used to represent this sound.
n
An alphabet based on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), but using only 7-bit ASCII characters.
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ASCII-based representation of the International Phonetic Alphabet that includes symbols for toneage, length, stress, and pause.
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The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
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The symbol §, used to refer to a particular section of a document, such as a legal code.
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(computational linguistics, text analysis) The use of computers to process natural language in an attempt to identify and extract information about the writer's affective state.
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A synthetic alphabet, invented by George Bernard Shaw in an attempt to provide a phonetic orthography for the English language. Example: water in Shavian is 𐑢𐑷𐑑𐑼.
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A letter or other symbol that stands for a word or name.
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Any of a set of standard optotypes resembling the letters C, D, H, K, N, O, R, S, V and Z.
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A set of code words that stand for the usual names of the letters of an alphabet, usually for clarity of communication when spelling out words.
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(computer science) A string of letters that identifies the beginning of a valid sequence in a specified language.
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A ligature, ⳨, of the Greek letters τ and ρ or Coptic letters ⲧ and ⲣ, later used as a symbol of the cross in early Christianity and remaining in use as a ligature in abbreviations of the words σταυρός and σταυρόω.
adj
Alternative form of stringly-typed [(programming, humorous) Characterized by an excessive use of strings to represent non-textual data.]
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A substitution cipher of the Latin alphabet, used by early modern occultists.
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The basic education received in primary schools. Literally; reading, writing and arithmetic.
adj
Represented in the characters of another alphabet
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A word that is written in such a manner that it illustrates what it means.
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A person involved in the development of Unicode.
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(mathematics) An alphabet, every symbol of which is assigned a weight (positive real number)
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The enclosed part of a letter of the alphabet, especially when handwritten.
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(artificial intelligence, linguistics) A semantically structured lexical database.
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Any mark that looks like that letter, such as a mark made by a person who cannot read or write in lieu of a signature.
adj
In reverse alphabetical order.
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