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  • print — to produce (a text, picture, etc.) by applying inked types, plates, blocks, or the like, to paper or other material either by direct pressure or indirectly by offsetting an image onto an intermediate roller.
  • longhand — writing of the ordinary kind, in which words are written out in full (distinguished from shorthand).
  • ideograph — an ideogram.
  • script — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
  • phoneme — any of a small set of units, usually about 20 to 60 in number, and different for each language, considered to be the basic distinctive units of speech sound by which morphemes, words, and sentences are represented. They are arrived at for any given language by determining which differences in sound function to indicate a difference in meaning, so that in English the difference in sound and meaning between pit and bit is taken to indicate the existence of different labial phonemes, while the difference in sound between the unaspirated p of spun and the aspirated p of pun, since it is never the only distinguishing feature between two different words, is not taken as ground for setting up two different p phonemes in English. Compare distinctive feature (def 1).
  • newsprint — a low-grade, machine-finished paper made from wood pulp and a small percentage of sulfite pulp, used chiefly for newspapers.
  • notation — a system of graphic symbols for a specialized use, other than ordinary writing: musical notation.
  • syllabary — a list or catalog of syllables.
  • lithograph — a print produced by lithography.
  • calligraphy — Calligraphy is the art of producing beautiful handwriting using a brush or a special pen.
  • alphabet — An alphabet is a set of letters usually presented in a fixed order which is used for writing the words of a particular language or group of languages.
  • morpheme — any of the minimal grammatical units of a language, each constituting a word or meaningful part of a word, that cannot be divided into smaller independent grammatical parts, as the, write, or the -ed of waited. Compare allomorph (def 2), morph (def 1).
  • typescript — a typewritten copy of a literary composition, document, or the like, especially as prepared for a printer.
  • documentation — the use of documentary evidence.
  • hieroglyph — Also, hieroglyphical. designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented.
  • dramatis personae — (used with a plural verb) the characters in a play.
  • black-and-white — displaying only black and white tones; without color, as a picture or chart: a black-and-white photograph.
  • rune — a poem, song, or verse.
  • writing — the act of a person or thing that writes.
  • phonemes — any of a small set of units, usually about 20 to 60 in number, and different for each language, considered to be the basic distinctive units of speech sound by which morphemes, words, and sentences are represented. They are arrived at for any given language by determining which differences in sound function to indicate a difference in meaning, so that in English the difference in sound and meaning between pit and bit is taken to indicate the existence of different labial phonemes, while the difference in sound between the unaspirated p of spun and the aspirated p of pun, since it is never the only distinguishing feature between two different words, is not taken as ground for setting up two different p phonemes in English. Compare distinctive feature (def 1).
  • cast — The cast of a play or film is all the people who act in it.
  • lettering — a written or printed communication addressed to a person or organization and usually transmitted by mail.
  • morphemes — any of the minimal grammatical units of a language, each constituting a word or meaningful part of a word, that cannot be divided into smaller independent grammatical parts, as the, write, or the -ed of waited. Compare allomorph (def 2), morph (def 1).
  • typesetting — the process or action of setting an article, book, or other printed matter into type.
  • pictograph — pictogram
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