释义 |
braille I. \ˈbrāl, esp bef pause or cons -āəl\ noun (-s) Usage: often capitalized Etymology: after Louis Braille died 1852 French teacher of the blind, who invented it : a system of writing for the blind that uses characters made up of raised dots in a 6-dot cell arranged in two vertical columns and that has been adapted for writing various languages and for transcribing music, mathematics, and scientific symbols — see emboss, grade, interpoint, sign, stereotyper, transcriber, word-sign
[braille alphabet] II. transitive verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Usage: sometimes capitalized : to transcribe or write in braille characters |