(n.) A manuscript, especially of the New Testament, written in small, connected characters or in a running hand; -- opposed to uncial.
Example Sentences:
(1) The higher incidence in early grades was related to the earlier introduction of cursive style writing in the German sample.
(2) Most of patients with cursive seizures showed temporal lobe epileptiform discharge in EEG.
(3) At the end of the first year or the beginning of the second, they are then introduced to the cursive script and its loopier letters, which join together in a prescribed fashion.
(4) Seven cases of cursive and two cases of gelastic manifestations of epileptic seizures are presented.
(5) Reading and writing performance was observed in 30 adult aphasic patients to determine whether there was a significant difference when stimuli and manual responses were varied in the written form: cursive versus manuscript.
(6) In Experiment 1, response deprivation was used to improve the cursive writing of six EMR children, using math as the contingent response.
(7) Number of words correctly read, number of words correctly written, and number of letters correctly written in the proper sequence were tallied for both cursive and manuscript writing tasks for each patient.
(8) They will continue to teach block capitals, but the subtleties of cursive writing will no longer be transmitted outside the elite.
(9) Repeating endless cursive letters along wide-spaced, pale blue lines.
(10) Patients were asked to read aloud 10 words written cursively and 10 words written in manuscript form.
(11) Both seem to have emerged in the Bronze Age, when patterns of artistry and cursive writing became fixed; but, by the time the alphabet was invented, the patterns became complicated by human perversity and racial rivalries, with an interesting, often damaging, legacy to the civilisations and cultures that followed.
(12) The effects of EMG biofeedback training on cursive handwriting were investigated for 4 girls and 5 boys in Grade 4.
(13) When the most prominent ictal symptom in an epileptic seizure is laughing or running the condition has been termed respectively gelastic or cursive epilepsy.
(14) Grace Owens of Brunswick, Georgia, wearing a hat that read “deplorable” in cursive script and a T-shirt that proclaimed America First, thought neither candidate won the debate.
(15) The collection includes 14 notebooks filled with research notes in small cursive handwriting, letters to Einstein's contemporaries on his physics research, and a handwritten explanation of his theory of relativity and its summarising equation e=mc2.
(16) Chelsea Manning joins Twitter and gets over 1,000 followers before posting Read more In the tweeted note, written in small cursive handwriting in black ink on lined paper, she said that she had asked a friend, Trevor FitzGibbon , a few weeks ago to set up the Twitter account.
(17) Written towards the end of his life in England, where he was born, there is no hint of the monster in the curlicues of a neat, cursive hand.
(18) They were then asked to write on dictation 10 words responses using cursive writing and 10 words using manuscript writing.
(19) The basic task was to write the words 'poppy' and 'wood' cursively five times, the first time in their normal size and then with four size transformations.
(20) The children only began working on them yesterday but they’re already miniature masterpieces – the pictures are bright and intricate, the writing is elegant cursive and the stories are dramatic, with speech bubbles and exclamation marks.
Letter
Definition:
(n.) One who lets or permits; one who lets anything for hire.
(n.) One who retards or hinders.
(n.) A mark or character used as the representative of a sound, or of an articulation of the human organs of speech; a first element of written language.
(n.) A written or printed communication; a message expressed in intelligible characters on something adapted to conveyance, as paper, parchment, etc.; an epistle.
(n.) A writing; an inscription.
(n.) Verbal expression; literal statement or meaning; exact signification or requirement.
(n.) A single type; type, collectively; a style of type.
(n.) Learning; erudition; as, a man of letters.
(n.) A letter; an epistle.
(v. t.) To impress with letters; to mark with letters or words; as, a book gilt and lettered.
Example Sentences:
(1) Richard Bull Woodbridge, Suffolk • Why does Britain need Chinese money to build a new atomic generator ( Letters , 20 October)?
(2) Accuracy of discrimination of letters at various preselected distances was determined each session while Ortho-rater examinations were given periodically throughout training.
(3) She was not aware that it was an assassination attempt by alleged foreign agents.” If at least one of the women thought the killing was part of an elaborate prank, it might explain the “LOL” message emblazoned in large letters one of the killers t-shirts.
(4) And, according to a letter leaked to the BBC last week , he reckons he has found one: default-on.
(5) Fry's letter was also delivered to the Lausanne headquarters of the International Olympic Committee, by Guillaume Bonnet of the campaign group All Out .
(6) It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and – most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought.” Diversity needs action beyond the Oscars | Letters Read more He may have provided the Richard Littlejohn wishlist from hell – you know the one, about the one-legged black lesbian in a hijab favoured by the politically correct – but as a Hollywood A-lister, the joke’s no longer on him.
(7) We have much more fighting to do!” Now Cherwell is preparing to publish letters or articles from other students who have been inspired to open up about their own ordeals.
(8) The reported study demonstrates that performance asymmetries between normal or reflected letters presented in the right and left visual field favors the right visual field when stimulus patterns are blocked and rotated 90 degrees clockwise and favors the left visual field when they are blocked and rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise.
(9) The letters of discharge or the case records were obtained for all patients under one year for the entire period and for all patients over one year for the period 1984-1986, a total of 627 persons.
(10) But under Comey’s FBI, the agency has continued to disregard the justice department’s legal opinion, and to this day, demands tech companies hand it all sorts of data under due-process free National Security Letters.
(11) The letter to Florence Nightingale was written by Bernita Decker as part of a nursing course assignment for our Nurse Educator advisor, Betty Pugh.
(12) A letter Acosta received warned her of a Snap cut of $11 for each family member in November.
(13) However, the law minister indicated he would allow the supreme court to approve a draft of the letter.
(14) These letters are also written during a period when Joyce was still smarting from the publishing difficulties of his earlier works Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” Gordon Bowker, Joyce’s biographer, agreed: “Joyce’s problem with the UK printers related to the fact that here in those days printers were as much at risk of prosecution on charges of publishing obscenities as were publishers, and would simply refuse to print them.
(15) The prime minister sent back a letter dismissing his allegations.
(16) She kept it up for three years, until her son's letters finally persuaded her to cut down to one day a week.
(17) The letter praised the company's progress in responding to the inspection.
(18) The letters, seen by Guardian Money, state that the French-owned company is conducting a review of customer records to make sure all its information is up to date.
(19) The day it opened in the US, three senators – senate select committee on intelligence chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin and John McCain – released a letter of protest to Sony Pictures's CEO, citing their committee's 6,000-page classified report on interrogation tactics and calling on him "to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film's fictional narrative".
(20) "Fifa received a letter via email and fax from the Costa Rica FA on March 24 with regards to the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier played on March 22 between USA and Costa Rica," Fifa said.