(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.
Shorthand
Definition:
(n.) A compendious and rapid method or writing by substituting characters, abbreviations, or symbols, for letters, words, etc.; short writing; stenography. See Illust. under Phonography.
Example Sentences:
(1) Neither is it clear that the Cyber Caliphate has a relationship with Isis, which does not use that English shorthand to refer to itself.
(2) As anyone who has witnessed one of its cake stall scrums knows, the WI has become shorthand for the finest homemade produce: it has a fearsome reputation to protect. "
(3) (His new movie, The Frozen Ground , has a limited cinema release and will be available on demand, which, given the demand for on demand, Cage wishes critics would stop using as shorthand for failure.)
(4) Neoliberalism is often used today as shorthand for any idea that is pro-market and anti-government intervention, but it is actually more specific than this.
(5) Taking the episodic and cyclic plasma gonadotropin fluctuations into consideration a shorthand system classifying the gonadotropin baseline (BI-BIV) and LH responses to 25 mug LRH (R0-R2) has been established and is referred to as Human Pituitary Gonadotropin Index (HPGI).
(6) Staubach later said he had closed his eyes and prayed – and the "Hail Mary" is now NFL shorthand for a last-gasp forward pass with little chance of success.
(7) He has long decried supposed British and American plots to deny the Iranian nation its "rights" – assumed shorthand for a nuclear bomb.
(8) The shorthand name for the new edition, the organisation's fifth revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, is DSM-5.
(9) I’ve started to communicate only in code,” she says, referring to the cryptic three-letter shorthand for a voter’s answers to three crucial questions that provide their profile – will you be voting Labour, did you vote Labour last time, and would you prefer a Labour government.
(10) In the US, the Victoria's Secret catalogue has become so infamous that it is now used as a shorthand for easy-access quasi porn in US sitcoms (Friends was especially fond of referencing it).
(11) The second problem is that the word “troll” has become shorthand for describing any behaviour online that may cause offence.
(12) He and Ryan discuss technical matters in shorthand.
(13) Its truth is secondary to its function as a crude shorthand for the negating of difference and change.
(14) There are signs that we will soon be exhausted by the Anthropocene: glutted by its ubiquity as a cultural shorthand, fatigued by its imprecisions, and enervated by its variant names – the “Anthrobscene”, the “Misanthropocene”, the “Lichenocene” (actually, that last one is mine).
(15) Nevertheless, in 1958 she left school with a favourable report: “Priscilla is suitable for office work.” She duly took a one-year secretarial and shorthand course at Anfield Commercial College, following which she landed a typing job at the offices of a construction company, BICC (British Insulated Callender’s Cables).
(16) For good or ill, the phrase stuck, and it's become an easy shorthand for people to fall back on when times get tough.
(17) If it has seemed sudden, it is because the breathless shorthand describing the crisis has disguised a fact that Iraq has been grinding towards this moment of existential truth for the past two years at least, a path from which none of its key actors has seemed able or willing to divert it.
(18) The government's vocabulary seemed to consciously echo the reunification process, with Merkel heralding an "Energie-Wende" – "die Wende" is the word for change which became shorthand for the fall of communism and reunification.
(19) For shorthand, let's call it a slow-motion apocalypse to distinguish it from an intergalactic attack out of the blue or a suddenly surging Genesis-style flood.
(20) Brexit” is shorthand for British exit from the European Union – a possibility that is looking more realistic by the day.