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LETTERS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The literary culture
Example:
this book shows American letters at its best
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("letters" is a kind of...):
culture (the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Scholarly attainment
Example:
he is a man of letters
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("letters" is a kind of...):
encyclopaedism; encyclopedism; eruditeness; erudition; learnedness; learning; scholarship (profound scholarly knowledge)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb letter
Context examples:
The person who is responsible for correspondence handled in a postal system, such as letters and packages.
(Mail Contact, NCI Thesaurus)
A sequence of letters, numbers, or other characters that uniquely identifies a clinical trial within a clinical trial registry.
(Clinical Trial Registry Identifier, NCI Thesaurus)
Fragile sites are designated by the letters "fra" followed by the designation for the specific chromosome and locus.
(Chromosome Fragile Site, NCI Thesaurus)
A term used to describe a character string containing only letters and numbers.
(Alphanumeric, NCI Thesaurus)
The worldwide standard for the code numbers used by computers to represent all the uppercase and lowercase Latin letters, numbers, punctuation, and other symbols.
(ASCII, NCI Thesaurus)
Indicates that a text matching operation distinguishes upper-case (capital) letters from lower case.
(Case Sensitive, NCI Thesaurus)
It is written in letters, not figures,—twenty thousand.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I preferred to stay at home and write letters.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Take away those letters, and throw them in the fire.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I had two completed letters already waiting.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
