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Literation
(gcide) | Literation \Lit`er*a"tion\ (l[i^]t`[~e]r*[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [L.
littera, litera, letter.]
The act or process of representing by letters.
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alliteration
(encz) | alliteration,aliterace n: Zdeněk Brož |
obliteration
(encz) | obliteration,vyhlazení n: Zdeněk Brožobliteration,vymazání n: Zdeněk Brož |
transliteration
(encz) | transliteration,přepis n: Zdeněk Brožtransliteration,transliterace n: Zdeněk Brož |
Alliteration
(gcide) | Alliteration \Al*lit`er*a"tion\, n. [L. ad + litera letter. See
Letter.]
The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or
more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short
intervals; as in the following lines:
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Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved
His vastness. --Milton.
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Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. --Tennyson.
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Note: The recurrence of the same letter in accented parts of
words is also called alliteration. Anglo-Saxon poetry
is characterized by alliterative meter of this sort.
Later poets also employed it.
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In a somer seson whan soft was the sonne,
I shope me in shroudes as I a shepe were. --P.
Plowman.
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Obliteration
(gcide) | Obliteration \Ob*lit`er*a"tion\, n. [L. obliteratio: cf. F.
oblit['e]ration.]
The act of obliterating, or the state of being obliterated;
extinction. --Sir. M. Hale.
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Transliteration
(gcide) | Transliteration \Trans*lit`er*a"tion\, n.
The act or product of transliterating, or of expressing words
of a language by means of the characters of another alphabet.
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alliteration
(wn) | alliteration
n 1: use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed
syllable in a line of verse; "around the rock the ragged
rascal ran" [syn: alliteration, initial rhyme,
beginning rhyme, head rhyme] |
obliteration
(wn) | obliteration
n 1: destruction by annihilating something [syn: annihilation,
obliteration]
2: the complete destruction of every trace of something [syn:
eradication, obliteration] |
transliteration
(wn) | transliteration
n 1: a transcription from one alphabet to another |
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