Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To arrange in alphabetical order.
- transitive verb To supply with an alphabet.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To arrange alphabetically.
- To express by alphabetic characters.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To arrange alphabetically.
- transitive verb To furnish with an alphabet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb US, Canada To
arrange items (i.e.words ) inorder of the first (and subsequent) letters as they appear in thealphabet . - verb Alternative spelling of
alphabetise .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb arrange in alphabetical order
- verb provide with an alphabet
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Examples
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We've also added a game called alphabetize where you can take your list and
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He can alphabetize spelling words and find the main idea of a paragraph.
Timothy D. Slekar: The Bartleby Project: 'I Prefer Not to Take Your Standardized Test' Timothy D. Slekar 2011
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All she really had to do was file and alphabetize.
Evidence Meg Pokrass 2011
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He can alphabetize spelling words and find the main idea of a paragraph.
Timothy D. Slekar: The Bartleby Project: 'I Prefer Not to Take Your Standardized Test' Timothy D. Slekar 2011
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He can alphabetize spelling words and find the main idea of a paragraph.
March Madness: 'My name is Luke and I refuse to take your test' 2011
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AllMail (with preceding period) which will alphabetize to the top of the list.
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Laurel, a pretty and perky brunette who finds it calming to riffle through card catalogs and likes to alphabetize books for fun, laments the fact that motherhood has forced her to curtail her reading.
Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The By-The-Book Librarian 2010
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Better to scrub my floors and alphabetize my spice jars.
Randy Susan Meyers: Digging Hurts: The Trauma of Writing Fiction Truthfully Randy Susan Meyers 2010
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Better to scrub my floors and alphabetize my spice jars.
Randy Susan Meyers: Digging Hurts: The Trauma of Writing Fiction Truthfully Randy Susan Meyers 2010
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Laurel, a pretty and perky brunette who finds it calming to riffle through card catalogs and likes to alphabetize books for fun, laments the fact that motherhood has forced her to curtail her reading.
Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The By-The-Book Librarian 2010
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