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LETTERING |
Writing words |
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BATTOLOGY |
A needless repetition of words in speaking or writing. |
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NOTIFICATION |
Notice given in words or writing, or by signs. |
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BRIEF |
A short concise writing or letter; a statement in few words. |
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REPLY |
To make a return in words or writing; to respond; to
answer. |
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LATINIZE |
To give Latin terminations or forms to, as to foreign
words, in writing Latin. |
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RETRENCHMENT |
The act or process of retrenching; as, the
retrenchment of words in a writing. |
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SPELL |
To form words with letters, esp. with the proper letters,
either orally or in writing. |
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JOINHAND |
Writing in which letters are joined in words; --
distinguished from writing in single letters. |
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LEXIPHANIC |
Using, or interlarded with, pretentious words;
bombastic; as, a lexiphanic writer or speaker; lexiphanic writing. |
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STENOGRAPHY |
The art of writing in shorthand, by using
abbreviations or characters for whole words; shorthand. |
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CONCISE |
Expressing much in a few words; condensed; brief and
compacted; -- used of style in writing or speaking. |
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TRANSCRIPT |
That which has been transcribed; a writing or
composition consisting of the same words as the original; a written
copy. |
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FUSTIAN |
An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which
high-sounding words are used,' above the dignity of the thoughts or
subject; bombast. |
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SHORTHAND |
A compendious and rapid method or writing by
substituting characters, abbreviations, or symbols, for letters, words,
etc.; short writing; stenography. See Illust. under Phonography. |
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READ |
To appear in writing or print; to be expressed by, or
consist of, certain words or characters; as, the passage reads thus in
the early manuscripts. |
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PLEONASM |
Redundancy of language in speaking or writing; the use of
more words than are necessary to express the idea; as, I saw it with my
own eyes. |
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ORTHOGRAPHY |
The art or practice of writing words with the proper
letters, according to standard usage; conventionally correct spelling;
also, mode of spelling; as, his orthography is vicious. |
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SENTENCE |
A combination of words which is complete as expressing a
thought, and in writing is marked at the close by a period, or full
point. See Proposition, 4. |
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NARRATION |
That which is related; the relation in words or writing
of the particulars of any transaction or event, or of any series of
transactions or events; story; history. |
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REMARK |
To express in words or writing, as observed or noticed; to
state; to say; -- often with a substantive clause; as, he remarked that
it was time to go. |
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TENOR |
An exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words and
figures of it. It differs from purport, which is only the substance or
general import of the instrument. |
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FOLIO |
A leaf containing a certain number of words, hence, a
certain number of words in a writing, as in England, in law proceedings
72, and in chancery, 90; in New York, 100 words. |
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LIPOGRAM |
A writing composed of words not having a certain letter
or letters; -- as in the Odyssey of Tryphiodorus there was no A in the
first book, no B in the second, and so on. |
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BLASPHEMY |
An indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs;
impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference
to, God; speaki... |