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Definitions: Semiliterate |
SemiliterateAdjective1. Literate but poorly informed. 2. Barely able to read and write; "an semiliterate scrawl". 3. Able to read but not to write. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "semiliterate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
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Worker Rights | China | According to official government statistics, 42 percent of persons in the TAR are illiterate or semiliterate. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "semiliterate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Arabic | شبه أمي. (various references) | ||||||||||
Chinese | 半文盲 . (various references) | ||||||||||
French | semi-analphabète. (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | félig írástudatlan, félig analfabéta. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | emiliteratesay малограмотный (half-educated, semi-literate). (various references) | ||||||||||
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Words beginning with "semiliterate": semiliterates. (additional references) | |
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"Semiliterate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: semiliterates, similiter. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-i-i-l-m-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: altimetries. | |
-2 letters: altimeters, elaterites, reestimate, temerities. | |
-3 letters: altimeter, elaterite, laterites, literates, literatim, materiels, militates, misrelate, realities, remittals, statelier, streamlet, timeliest. | |
-4 letters: airtimes, alertest, ariettes, ateliers, earliest, eateries, emeritae, emeritas, emirates, emitters, eremites, estimate, imitates, iterates, lamister, laterite, leariest, leeriest, limiters, literate, literati, maltiest, maltster, marliest, marlites, martlets, materiel, mealiest, measlier, meatiest, metalise, metalist, metritis. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-i-i-l-m-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: semiliterates. | |
+3 letters: experimentalist, semiterrestrial. | |
+4 letters: experimentalists, radiotelemetries. | |
+5 letters: complementarities, impenetrabilities. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 6D 69 6C 69 74 65 72 61 74 65 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... . -- .. .-.. .. - . .-. .- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01101101 01101001 01101100 01101001 01110100 01100101 01110010 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e m i l i t e r a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 006D 0069 006C 0069 0074 0065 0072 0061 0074 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)537179757875867184678671 |
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