Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art or practice of writing in shorthand; stenography.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Stenography.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A system of writing using
abbreviations or special characters;shorthand .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He used a "set of prison bars for the name Bernie Madoff" in his example for "brachygraphy" in the semifinals and later made a reference to the "The Jeffersons," a TV sitcom that went off the air some 10 years before the oldest of the spellers was born.
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JOANNA YE, a 14-year-old contestant in the National Spelling Bee, who advanced to the finals by correctly spelling brachygraphy, pinetum, rocaille and hypotrichosis
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He used a "set of prison bars for the name Bernie Madoff" in his example for "brachygraphy" and later made a reference to the "The Jeffersons," a sitcom that went off the air some 10 years before the oldest of the spellers was born.
USATODAY.com News 2011
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JOANNA YE, a 14-year-old contestant in the National Spelling Bee, who advanced to the finals by correctly spelling brachygraphy, pinetum, rocaille and hypotrichosis
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JOANNA YE, a 14-year-old contestant in the National Spelling Bee, who advanced to the finals by correctly spelling brachygraphy, pinetum, rocaille and hypotrichosis
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He used a "set of prison bars for the name Bernie Madoff" in his example for "brachygraphy" and later made a reference to the "The Jeffersons," a sitcom that went off the air some 10 years before the oldest of the spellers was born.
USATODAY.com News 2011
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JOANNA YE, a 14-year-old contestant in the National Spelling Bee, who advanced to the finals by correctly spelling brachygraphy, pinetum, rocaille and hypotrichosis
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Participants were invited to use guides to brachygraphy, the now obsolete shorthand system that Dickens had adapted.
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