(n.) The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language.
(n.) The simplest rudiments; elements.
(v. t.) To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.
Example Sentences:
(1) A combined plot of all results from the four separate papers, which is ordered alphabetically by chemical, is available from L. S. Gold, in printed form or on computer tape or diskette.
(2) In Experiment 3, four strategies, alphabetic, size, serial order, and free recall, gave similar levels of recall after 6 min, though the growth rate of the cumulative output functions differed among the strategies.
(3) The controls for phonologically ambiguous words were the same words in their alternative, nonambiguous alphabetic transcription.
(4) MDD results were improved by using longer mutliplets and, if the sequences were coding, by using the larger amino acid and codon alphabets rather than the nucleotide alphabet.
(5) My surname, though, is so late in the alphabet that I'm normally one of the "62 others".
(6) Hanging on the walls are faded posters, a world map and the alphabet in Bengali and English.
(7) We present a polynomial algorithm (O(n X L4), where n is the number of sequences) for generating strings related to the LCS and constructed with the sequence alphabet and an indetermination symbol.
(8) A dramatic improvement in the S's ability to reproduce the alphabet was observed.
(9) Responses from all four mechanoreceptor classes (FA I, FA II, SA I and SA II) have been reconstructed to form two-dimensional Spatial Event Plots (raster plots) of the Braille alphabet.
(10) The chemical identity of the particular choice in our genetic alphabet can also be rationalized.
(11) "Satire is not a very familiar alphabet in Africa ," he said.
(12) Our Scrabble board had Velcro on the back, as did each alphabet piece.
(13) 10 Change your name Local parties, believe it or not, obsess over the alphabetical placement of candidates.
(14) However, the picture is rather complex in that we find significant correlations for some context-free word discrimination and sign-alphabet testing conditions.
(15) The lists were made up from the upper case letters of the alphabet, and during the recognition test each S was required to indicate how many times each of the irrelevant letters had appeared on the final list searched.
(16) Ministers have taken too long to consolidate the “alphabet soup” of agencies tasked with safeguarding the UK from cyber-attacks and there appears to be no coordination across the public sector, the public accounts committee (PAC) said.
(17) Biggs communicated using a pointer and alphabet, he said.
(18) They practiced spelling out the alphabet on a coloring book in a room next door.
(19) Failure rates of men, but not women students in genetics showed a significant positive correlation with alphabetical listing and ranged from 14% in the A-C region to 33% in the region T-Z.
(20) No attenuation of the alpha activity in the both hemispheres was seen during either the alphabet or kana syllabary imagery.
Aramaic
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to Aram, or to the territory, inhabitants, language, or literature of Syria and Mesopotamia; Aramaean; -- specifically applied to the northern branch of the Semitic family of languages, including Syriac and Chaldee.
(n.) The Aramaic language.
Example Sentences:
(1) Motion pictures based on events that took place a long time ago can play fast and loose with the facts, particularly if Mel Gibson is the director: William Wallace never met Queen Isabella, wife of the unfortunate Edward II; the British army did not make a policy of incinerating American civilians in churches during the revolutionary war; it was the Romans, not the Jews, who killed Christ, and it is doubtful that anyone involved in his crucifixion spoke Aramaic.
(2) It was interesting but I couldn't cut it in Aramaic."
(3) "We came for Lebanon's future to show that we will not be scared," said Arama Fakhouri, an interior designer from Beirut in the cheering crowd.
(4) A tourist attraction before the civil war erupted in March 2011, some of Maaloula's residents still speak a version of Aramaic, a biblical language spoken by Jesus.