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US
/ˈæɫfəˌbɛt/
]
[ UK /ˈælfəbˌɛt/ ]
[ UK /ˈælfəbˌɛt/ ]
NOUN
-
the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural)
he mastered only the rudiments of geometry - a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language
How To Use alphabet In A Sentence
- The same signary was also used in the early historical period to write Greek; by the end of the third century B.C., Greek alphabetic writing had almost completely supplanted the native script.
- the Early Hebrew alphabetical script is that used mainly from the 11th to the 6th centuries B.C.
- Sure enough, he found her there, looking at the posted casualty reports along with many others, searching the alphabetized lists of KIAs and WIAs.
- At first, she did odd things like rearranging her shoes and alphabetizing the books on the bookshelf in her office.
- In other news, MovableType considers capital letters to come before lower case letters when alphabetising things.
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- Imagine the performance in each match represented as a letter of the alphabet. Times, Sunday Times
- The Enigma machine looked like a typewriter in a wooden box, with an electric current travelling from the keyboard through a set of rotors and a plugboard to light up the ‘code’ alphabet.
- Rather than an alphabetical sequence of topics, for each country the contents are organized into chapters that address 13 basic issues, ranging from basic sexological perspectives to sexual dysfunctions.
- Alphabet soup Four key findings suggest that dyslexia is an organic problem rather than a motivational one.