Letters

Interlinked Thematic Vocabulary Unit Nº 296 v.1 .

1. letter |n| a character representing one or more of the sounds used in speech; any of the symbols of an alphabet.
2. "His name was written in large white letters over the doorway."
3. capital letter / capital / uppercase / uppercase letter / majuscule |n| one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis.
4. "Printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letter in separatecases:; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters."
5. vowel / vocallic |n| a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken vowel
6. "After blending consonants and vowels , syllables are blended into words and words are used in meaningful sentences."
7. consonant |n| a letter of the alphabet that represents a consonant sound, for example ´b´, ´c´, ´d´, ´f´, etc.
8. "She's got some unpronounceable name which seems to be all consonants."
9. small letter / lowercase letter |n| a lowercase letter, as distinct from a capital letter.
10. "There is also no differentiation between capital letters and small letters in Tamil."
11. symbol |n| a thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.
12. type 1 |n| letters that are printed or typed.
13. "The type was too small for me to read."
14. "The important words are in bold type."
15. type 2 |n| write using a typewriter or computer by pressing the keys.
16. "He typed out the second draft."

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