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Word Meanings - TRANSLITERATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act or product of transliterating, or of expressing words of a language by means of the characters of another alphabet.

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  • ANOTHER-GUESS
    Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
  • ALPHABET
    1. The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language. 2. The simplest rudiments; elements. The very alphabet of our law. Macaulay. Deaf and dumb alphabet.
  • WORDSMAN
    One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist. "Some speculative wordsman." H. Bushnell.
  • ALPHABETISM
    The expression of spoken sounds by an alphabet. Encyc. Brit.
  • PRODUCTIVITY
    The quality or state of being productive; productiveness. Emerson. Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. Coleridge.
  • PRODUCTUS
    An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks.
  • EXPRESSURE
    The act of expressing; expression; utterance; representation. An operation more divine Than breath or pen can give expressure to. Shak.
  • EXPRESS TRAIN
    Formerly, a railroad train run expressly for the occasion; a special train; now, a train run at express or special speed and making few stops.
  • ALPHABETICALLY
    In an alphabetic manner; in the customary order of the letters.
  • EXPRESSIVE
    1. Serving to express, utter, or represent; indicative; communicative; -- followed by of; as, words expressive of his gratitude. Each verse so swells expressive of her woes. Tickell. 2. Full of expression; vividly representing the meaning
  • TRANSLITERATION
    The act or product of transliterating, or of expressing words of a language by means of the characters of another alphabet.
  • EXPRESSNESS
    The state or quality of being express; definiteness. Hammond.
  • PRODUCTILE
    Capable of being extended or prolonged; extensible; ductile.
  • EXPRESSIONAL
    Of, or relating to, expression; phraseological; also, vividly representing or suggesting an idea sentiment. Fized. Hall. Ruskin.
  • ANOTHER
    1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. 2. Not the same; different. He winks,
  • EXPRESSIONLESS
    Destitute of expression.
  • ALPHABETICS
    The science of representing spoken sounds by letters.
  • EXPRESSMAN
    A person employed in the express business; also, the driver of a job wagon. W. D. Howells.
  • ALPHABETIC; ALPHABETICAL
    1. Pertaining to, furnished with, expressed by, or in the order of, the letters of the alphabet; as, alphabetic characters, writing, languages, arrangement. 2. Literal. "Alphabetical servility." Milton.
  • EXPRESSAGE
    The charge for carrying a parcel by express.
  • OVERLANGUAGED
    Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell.
  • SWORDSMANSHIP
    The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper.
  • OVERPRODUCTION
    Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.
  • INEXPRESSIBLY
    In an inexpressible manner or degree; unspeakably; unutterably. Spectator.
  • REPRODUCTORY
    Reproductive.
  • POINT ALPHABET
    An alphabet for the blind with a system of raised points corresponding to letters.
  • SWORDSMAN
    1. A soldier; a fighting man. 2. One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.
  • UNEXPRESSIBLE
    Inexpressible. Tillotson. -- Un`ex*press"i*bly, adv.
  • SEA LANGUAGE
    The peculiar language or phraseology of seamen; sailor's cant.

 

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