| 单词 | alphabet |
| 释义 | alphabet (once / 915 pages) 1n 2n An alphabet is a set of all the letters in a written language. The letters in an alphabet represent the different sounds in that language. When you sing the A, B, C song, you are singing the English alphabet. Rock on. If you grew up speaking English, you're most familiar with the English alphabet, which is based on the 26-letter Latin alphabet. Other languages, like German, use this same alphabet with a few added characters, like Ü and ß, to represent specific sounds in spoken German. The Greek root of alphabet is alphabetos, a combination of the first and second letters in the Greek alphabet, alpha, and beta. WORD FAMILYalphabet: alphabetic, alphabetical, alphabetise, alphabetize, alphabets+/alphabetical: alphabetically/alphabetise: alphabetisation, alphabetised, alphabetiser/alphabetize: alphabetization, alphabetized, alphabetizer, alphabetizes, alphabetizing USAGE EXAMPLESAt just 19.8 times forward earnings, Alphabet trades at a discount to internet peers Facebook’s and Amazon.com’s multiples of 23 times and 87 times, respectively. Wall Street Journal(Dec 26, 2016) In truth it is not much of a separation, as the firm will still be inside Alphabet and will not disclose more financial details. Economist(Dec 15, 2016) Then Google conjured up a corporate superstructure called Alphabet, slotting itself in as the only profitable firm. Economist(Dec 15, 2016) 1 n a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language 2Hypo|Hyper Armenian, Armenian alphabet a writing system having an alphabet of 38 letters in which the Armenian language is written Latin alphabet, Roman alphabetthe alphabet evolved by the ancient Romans which serves for writing most of the languages of western Europe Hebraic alphabet, Hebrew alphabet, Hebrew scripta Semitic alphabet used since the 5th century BC for writing the Hebrew language (and later for writing Yiddish and Ladino) Greek alphabetthe alphabet used by ancient Greeks Cyrillic, Cyrillic alphabetan alphabet derived from the Greek alphabet and used for writing Slavic languages (Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Ukrainian, and some other Slavic languages) Arabic alphabetthe alphabet of 28 characters derived from Aramaic and used for writing Arabic languages (and borrowed for writing Urdu) phonetic alphabet, sound alphabetan alphabet of characters intended to represent specific sounds of speech finger alphabet, manual alphabetan alphabet used by the deaf; letters are represented by finger positions visible speecha phonetic alphabet invented by Melville Bell in the 19th century script a particular orthography or writing system character setan ordered list of characters that are used together in writing or printing n the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural) Syn|Hyper ABC, ABC's, ABCs, first principle, first rudiment, rudiment basic principle, basics, bedrock, fundamental principle, fundamentals principles from which other truths can be derived |
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