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letter
has definitions from the fields of writing,sport,printing,work,business
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[ noun ] (writing) a written message addressed to a person or organization
Synonyms Examples "wrote an indignant letter to the editor" Used in print (Bern Dibner, "Oerstad and the Discovery of Electro...)In May , 1803 , Ritter , in another flight of fancy , wrote to Oersted a letter that contained a remarkable prophecy . ([Anonymous,] "The Attack on Employee Services"...)This can be done by stories in your house_organs , posters , special publications , letters to workers ' homes as_well_as by_word_of_mouth through your chain of command . (Bell I. Wiley, "Home Letters of Johnny Reb and Billy...)The letters of the common_soldiers are rich_in humor . Indeed , no richer humor is to be found in the whole of American literature than in the letters of the semi-literate men who wore the blue and the gray . Still another , annoyed by the brevity of a recently received missive , wrote : `` Yore letter was short_and_sweet , jist like a roasted maget '' . |
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[ noun ] the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech
Examples "his grandmother taught him his letters" Used in print (William S. Haymond, "Is Distance an Original...)This meant , concretely , that the patient could not read at_all without making writing like movements of the head or body , became easily confused by `` hasher_marks '' inserted between hand-written words and thus confused the mark for one of the letters , and could recognize a simple straight_line or a curved one only by tracing it . Related terms character block_letter consonant beta initial alpha gamma theta kappa digraph mu xi aitch z omega iota daleth lambda heth nu lamedh omicron ayin rho pi sigma tau epsilon delta polyphone c aleph beth gimel k he waw zayin s teth yodh kaph upsilon mem nun samekh vowel pe sadhe qoph resh sin shin taw phi zeta ascender descender chi a b psi eta d e f g h i j zee l m n o p q r ell t u v w x y alphabet spelling |
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[ verb ] (sport) win an athletic letter, in sports
Used in print (The Dallas Morning News,...)Moritz is listed on the Longhorn roster as a right halfback , the position at which he lettered on the 1956 team . Related terms |
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[ verb ] mark letters on or mark with letters
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[ noun ] a strictly literal interpretation (as distinct from the intention)
Examples "he followed instructions to the letter" "he obeyed the letter of the law" Related terms |
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[ verb ] (printing) set down or print with letters
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[ noun ] (sport) an award earned by participation in a school sport
Synonyms Examples "he won letters in three sports" Related terms |
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