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A form of capitalization where capital letters are randomly placed throughout the word(s), now used to convey mockery through text messages.
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(textual criticism) A manuscript from which a copy (apograph) is made.
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(archaic) a handwritten manuscript
adj
Written in the author’s own handwriting.
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(education) A style of handwriting in which the letters are not joined and feature straight lines and circular arcs; block letters.
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(calligraphy) A highly calligraphic Western European script style used from approximately 1150.
adj
Written or printed in black letter.
adj
Written in black letter.
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A capital letter written by hand.
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A letter written in clear, unjoined handwriting.
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(rare or archaic) letter, letter of the alphabet, a written character.
adv
(historical, calligraphy, of writing) In a fashion such that the reading direction changes from right-to-left to left-to-right with each new line.
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(orthography, printing) A breve, as applied to Ancient Greek <˘>.
n
(obsolete) A system of writing using abbreviations or special characters; shorthand.
adj
Of, relating to or written in braille.
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A person who exhibits the traits of bad spelling or bad handwriting or both.
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An ornate capital letter used in calligraphy, consisting of interlaced pen strokes. See Commons:Cadel letters.
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Alternative form of calligraphy [(uncountable) The art or practice of writing letters and words in a decorative style; the letters and words so written.]
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A word, phrase or longer text in which the typeface or the layout has some special significance.
v
To write using calligraphy.
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one who practices calligraphy
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(uncountable) The art or practice of writing letters and words in a decorative style; the letters and words so written.
adj
A style of script: Carolingian minuscule
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(calligraphy, usually in the plural) A character written in the script.
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(calligraphy, historical) Either of two styles of handwriting: a written form of black letter used in France and England from about 1350, developed in the Lateran chancelry in the 13th century, or a style of cursive handwriting introduced in the 1420s by Niccolò de' Niccoli, developed from humanist minuscule; a variety of either of these styles.
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(countable, dated) Style of writing or printing; handwriting; the particular form of letters used by a person or people.
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The number of strokes required to form a Chinese character.
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An archaic style of Chinese calligraphy, dominant during the Han dynasty. Characters are rather wide (in comparison with modern styles), with long, bold, and deliberate sweeping strokes. Unlike the preceding seal script, it is still legible to modern Chinese, and thus is usually used decoratively.
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(obsolete) Alternative form of clerical script [An archaic style of Chinese calligraphy, dominant during the Han dynasty. Characters are rather wide (in comparison with modern styles), with long, bold, and deliberate sweeping strokes. Unlike the preceding seal script, it is still legible to modern Chinese, and thus is usually used decoratively.]
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(countable) A cursive character, letter or font.
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The adaptation of a script into cursive form.
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A style of handwriting intended to make it easier for children to learn to write English.
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An instance of dittography in a text.
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The accidental error of repeating a word, phrase or combination of letters by a scribe or copyist.
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A digital graphic icon with a unique code point used to represent a concept, object, person, animal or place, originally used in Japanese text messaging but since adopted internationally in other contexts such as social media. Or, by extension, any non-standard emoji-like image inserted inline in text, i.e. an image emoticon.
adj
(typography) Especially condensed.
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The practice of representing the letters of an alphabet using just the hands to spell out words.
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Writing with the foot, as performed by those whose disability prevents them from writing with the hand.
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A character that is valid in a given writing system but not included in the present font and/or character encoding, and which therefore is displayed using an additional mechanism. Mutually distinct from tofu and from mojibake.
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(typography, computing) A visual representation of a letter, character, or symbol, in a specific font and style.
adj
Written or engraved; formed of letters or lines.
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A style of cursive script used in Chinese calligraphy.
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(rare) Careless handwriting; a crude or illegible scrawl.
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Handwriting; style of penmanship.
adj
Alternative spelling of handwritten [written with a pen or pencil, as opposed to typed]
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The distinctive handwriting of a graffiti artist, used in tags etc.
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The act or process of writing done with the hand, rather than typed or word-processed.
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(idiomatic) alternative form of writing on the wall [(idiomatic) An ominous warning; a prediction of bad luck.]
adj
(uncommon) Handwritten by a single writer.
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(typography, calligraphy) A distinguished initial letter of a chapter or section of a document.
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One who inscribes; a writer of inscriptions.
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An oblique handwriting style, such as used by Italian calligraphers of the Renaissance.
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(historical, calligraphy, of writing) Writing that is vertical, as on a pillar (kion)
n
A key to the symbols and color codes on a map, chart, etc.
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(art) The use of letters and other text characters to form a picture.
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The design and development of such shapes
adj
Printed with a letterhead.
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(marketing, communication, typography) A text-only logo consisting of the initials of a brand name or business.
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A particular handwriting style.
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A letter, a written form of communication.
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A scribal or typographical error where a letter or group of letters that should be written twice is written once.
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The written characters used in the common method of writing; opposed to shorthand, or typing or printing; handwriting.
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capital letters, as found in manuscripts of the sixth century and earlier
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Writing composed wholly of capital letters, especially the style which prevailed in Europe from the third to the sixth century.
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(typography) A symbol resembling a hand with the index finger extended, used to draw attention to or indicate something.
adj
Relating to the physical process of handwriting.
n
The characteristic horizontal line drawn above characters in some Indic scripts.
n
Very small lettering (especially handwriting), or a handwritten manuscript consisting of such writing.
adj
Written in minuscule handwriting style.
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A system of code using symbols of twelve dots arranged as two columns of six dots embossed on a square of paperboard, designed to allow military communication without light or noise. It is the forerunner of braille.
v
(transitive, rare, archaic) To spell (words) or write (text) according to established usage.
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Ancient scripts or forms of writing themselves, as uncial, scriptio continua, or methods of using papyrus scrolls.
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(historical) A system of shorthand based on phonetic spellings.
n
penmanship; skill in writing; the art of writing
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The art or skill of good handwriting; calligraphy.
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A woman's skill in handwriting.
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A dictionary that includes pictures to help identify things.
adj
Being a style of handwriting that can later be developed into cursive.
n
A calligraphic style of Chinese characters, in which strokes are organically but cleanly written. It is descended from the clerical script.
adj
(chiefly of text) That is written (and is read) from right to left.
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(colloquial, law, typography, US) A Roman numeral in lower case, such as “ii”, as frequently introduces list items; or, a list item introduced by such.
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A style of handwriting in which the letters are well rounded and free.
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A form of calligraphy, in medieval manuscripts, in which added text was coloured in red.
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A style of rapid handwriting without lifting the pen.
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A form of Chinese calligraphy in which round brush-strokes predominate and there are no sharp strokes or ticks
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(typography) A single word (or portion of a hyphenated word) that appears as the last line of a paragraph.
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The practice of using scribes.
adj
(obsolete) Scribbling, or producing inferior writing.
n
(dated) A scribble; bad or hasty writing.
n
(typography) Type made in imitation of handwriting.
adj
(informal) Resembling or characteristic of script, or handwriting.
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(historical, calligraphy) A style of handwriting developed in Europe and used during the 16th and 17th centuries for writing English, German, Welsh and Gaelic; a variety of this style.
adj
Being or relating to a form of script that resembles a cut-down version of uncial, used from around the 3rd to the 8th century.
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A rough and rapid method of writing by substituting symbols for letters, words, etc.
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The art or process of writing signs.
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(dated) The style of handwriting used in ordinary correspondence.
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The division of the text of a book into lines; a method of writing manuscripts used before punctuation was adopted.
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(historical, calligraphy) An epigraphical form in which the letters are arranged as rows and columns within a grid arrangement.
n
A set of standards for design and writing of documents, either for general use or for a specific publication or organization, including standards on typography, grammar, or punctuation.
n
(rare) A short or rapid method of instructing; speed teaching.
adv
In tachygraphy or shorthand.
n
The art and practice of rapid writing.
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A Τ-shaped object or sign; a Saint Anthony's cross, sometimes regarded as a sacred symbol.
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A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
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(dated) One who is ready to quote texts.
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Any one of thousands of signs in a system of shorthand developed in the 60s BC by Cicero’s scribe Marcus Tullius Tiro.
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(humorous) The disputed idea that readers can easily comprehend text even when it is full of spelling errors and misplaced letters.
adj
(rare) Of or relating to an ounce, or an inch, especially to letters printed an inch high.
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(palaeography) The earliest style of Cyrillic writing developed from Greek uncial in the late 9th century, predominant in the 11th–14th centuries.
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(typography, calligraphy) Ornamental letter that begins a section
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(printing) The left-hand page of a book of a script which reads from left to right, usually having an even page number.
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Alternative form of wordmark [(marketing) A logotype; a standardized graphic representation of the name of a company or product used for purposes of easy identification. It is is often text with unique typographic or graphical treatment.]
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The act of writing such a piece.
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penmanship; skill in writing; the art of writing
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Pronunciation spelling of writing. [(uncountable) Graphism of symbols such as letters that express some meaning.]
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(uncountable) Graphism of symbols such as letters that express some meaning.
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An error made when writing by hand.
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Obsolete form of writing. [(uncountable) Graphism of symbols such as letters that express some meaning.]
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Obsolete form of writing. [(uncountable) Graphism of symbols such as letters that express some meaning.]
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Obsolete spelling of swastika [(countable) A cross with arms of equal length all bent halfway along at a 90° angle to the right or to the left, used as a religious symbol by various ancient and modern civilizations, but now mainly seen and used in the West (with arms angled to the right) as a symbol of National Socialism and fascism.]
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