| 单词 | orthography |
| 释义 | orthography (once / 4905 pages) n If you speak English — and you probably do if you're reading this — an orthography or writing system of "A, B, C, D..." makes sense. The Serbian language uses a different orthography: "A B C Č Ć D Dž Đ..." From Greek orthographia, meaning "correct writing," an orthography is a way to represent words by having set ways to spell and write them. Orthography helps you identify words so you can figure out their meanings. Different languages usually have different systems of orthography, and even subsets of language, like text-messaging lingo, have a sort of orthography. WORD FAMILYorthography: orthographic, orthographies+/orthographic: orthographically USAGE EXAMPLESTomlinson, who died on March 5th, made a lasting contribution to the world’s orthography by choosing the @ symbol for e-mail addresses. Economist(Mar 10, 2016) Germany reformed its orthography in 1996, but criticism was fast and fierce and publishers soon reverted to the previous system. Time(Feb 17, 2016) Because the nonsense words had no meaning, Riesenhuber deduced that our neurons must respond to words' orthography—how they look—rather than their meaning. Scientific American(Jul 23, 2015) n a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper writing system Linear A an undeciphered writing system used in Crete in the 17th century B.C. Linear Ba syllabic script used in Greece in the 13th century B.C. script a particular orthography or writing system spellingforming words with letters according to the principles underlying accepted usage picture writinga writing system using pictographs alphabetic script, alphabetic writinga writing system based on alphabetic characters boustrophedonan ancient writing system: having alternate lines written in opposite directions; literally `as the ox ploughs' ideographythe use of ideograms in writing hieroglyph, hieroglyphica writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt point systema system of writing or printing using patterns of raised dots that can be read by touch Aramaic, Aramaic scriptan alphabetical (or perhaps syllabic) script used since the 9th century BC to write the Aramaic language; many other scripts were subsequently derived from it Avestanthe script in which the ancient Persian language of the Avesta is written Brahmia script (probably adapted from the Aramaic about the 7th century BC) from which later Indian scripts developed Devanagari, Devanagari script, Nagari, Nagari scripta syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi Pahlavithe script (derived from the Aramaic alphabet) used to write the Pahlavi language Uighur, Uigur, Uygurthe script (derived from Aramaic) used to write the Uighur language unciala style of orthography characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; found especially in Greek and Latin manuscripts of the 4th to 8th centuries misspellinga spelling that is incorrect cuneiforman ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia syllabary, syllabic scripta writing system whose characters represent syllables hieratic, hieratic scripta cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics; used especially by the priests braillea point system of writing in which patterns of raised dots represent letters and numerals alphabeta character set that includes letters and is used to write a language writing letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language |
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