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braille
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun braille has 2 senses
- braille(n = noun.person) louis braille - French educator who lost his sight at the age of three and who invented a system of writing and printing for sightless people (1809-1852); Array is a kind of educator, pedagog, pedagogue
- braille(n = noun.communication) Array - a point system of writing in which patterns of raised dots represent letters and numerals; Array is a kind of point system
Derived form verb braille1
Derived form verb braille1
Verb braille has 1 sense
- braille(v = verb.communication) Array - transcribe in braille; Array is one way to transcribe, transliterate
Derived forms noun braille2, noun braille1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
braille, n.
A system of printing or writing for the blind in which the characters and numerals are represented by patterns of raised tangible points or dots. It was invented by Louis Braille , a French teacher of the blind. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
braille, v.
to transcribe in Braille. [WordNet 1.5]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
braille, n. & v.
--n. a system of writing and printing for the blind, in which characters are represented by patterns of raised dots.
--v.tr. print or transcribe in Braille.
--n. a system of writing and printing for the blind, in which characters are represented by patterns of raised dots.
--v.tr. print or transcribe in Braille.
Etymology
L. Braille, Fr. teacher d. 1852, its inventor
THESAURUS
braille
Boston type, New York point, Optacon, Pathsounder, Seeing Eye dog, Visotoner, cane, embosser, guide dog, high-speed embosser, line letter, noctograph, optophone, personal sonar, sensory aid, sight-saver type, string alphabet, talking book, ultrasonic spectacles, visagraph, writing frame, writing stampsROGET THESAURUS
braille
Blindness
N blindness, cecity, excecation, amaurosis, cataract, ablepsy, ablepsia, prestriction, dim-sightedness, Braille, Braille-type, guttaserena (drop serene), noctograph, teichopsia, blind, eyeless, sightless, visionless, dark, stone-blind, sand- blind, stark-blind, undiscerning, dimsighted, blind as a bat, blind as a buzzard, blind as a beetle, blind as a mole, blind as an owl, wall-eyed, blinded, blindly, blindfold, blindfolded, darkly, O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon.
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