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綴り — meaning in English

tsuzuri

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English meaning

  • book noun A set of printed or written pages bound together, meant to be read.
  • orthography noun A method of representing a language or the sounds of language by written symbols; spelling.
  • spelling noun The act or skill of putting letters in the correct order to form words.

Senses

綴り is used for these senses in English:

  • book A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as an e-book.
  • orthography (uncountable) Correct spelling according to established usage; also (obsolete) pronunciation according to the spelling of a word.
  • spelling (uncountable) The act, practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography.
  • spelling (uncountable) The manner of spelling of words; correct spelling.
  • spelling (countable) A specific spelling of a word.

book — full definition

  1. noun A set of printed or written pages bound together, meant to be read.
  2. noun A record of a business's financial transactions (usually plural: "the books").
  3. noun A person or organization that takes bets on the outcome of events; short for bookmaker.
  4. verb To arrange or reserve something in advance.
  5. verb To formally record a suspect's details after an arrest.

orthography — full definition

  1. noun A method of representing a language or the sounds of language by written symbols; spelling.
  2. noun A set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, capitalization, emphasis, hyphenation, punctuation, and word breaks.
  3. noun The aspect of language study concerned with letters and their sequences in words; the study of spelling.
  4. noun Correct spelling according to established usage; also (obsolete) pronunciation according to the spelling of a word.

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