Alphabet
['ælfəbet] or ['ælfə'bɛt]
Definition
(noun.) a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language.
Inputed by Chris--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language.
(n.) The simplest rudiments; elements.
(v. t.) To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.
Typist: Ora
Definition
n. the letters of a language arranged in the usual order.—n. Alphabetā′rian one learning his alphabet a beginner: a student of alphabets.—adjs. Alphabet′ic -al relating to or in the order of an alphabet.—adv. Alphabet′ically.—v.t. Al′phabetise to arrange alphabetically:—pr.p. al′phabetīsing; pa.p. al′phabetīsed.
Checker: Lola
Unserious Contents or Definition
A toy for the children found in books, blocks, pictures and vermicelli soup. Contains 26 letters and only three syllables.
Checker: Roland
Examples
- We made up a scheme to hold this wire, so he changed one letter of the alphabet and I soon got used to it; and finally we changed three letters. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Korea long ago went a step farther and developed a true alphabet from the same Chinese origins. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The book had an alphabet in it, some figures and tables, and a little spelling,--that is to say, it had had once. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Hence, the transmitted message was received on the tape in visible dots and dashes representing characters of the Morse alphabet. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It ceased to be pictographic or ideographic; it became simply a pure sound-sign system, an _alphabet_. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In this manner the letters of the alphabet were indicated by dots upon a strip of paper, kept slowly moving by clock mechanism. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Ampère and of Baron de Schilling, though in some respects not so efficient as either, for its action was slow, and it required a separate wire for each letter of the alphabet. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- In capital B's and H's most of the girls under Miss Peecher's tuition were half a year ahead of every other letter in the alphabet. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Most of the early telegraphic inventors encumbered their inventions with the same obstacle, as they seemed to consider it necessary to have a separate circuit for each letter of the alphabet. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- No law in that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only of two and twenty. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The alphabet consisted simply of an arrangement of dots and dashes in varying sequence. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It was considered a great advantage of this telegraph at the time, that it exhibited actual letters of the alphabet, instead of symbols. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Probably the Mediterranean alphabet, which is the basis of most Indian scripts, had not yet reached India. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Few scholars would have disliked teaching the alphabet under such circumstances. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- These movements give rise to the clicking sounds which represent the dots and dashes of the Morse or other alphabet as transmitted by the operator. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- There were a number of such alphabets in the Mediterranean differing widely from each other. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Speech developed written characters and alphabets. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Typist: Silvia