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.