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Small Letter

Definition: Small Letter

Small Letter

Noun

1. The characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Small Letter

Synonyms: lower case (n), lower-case letter (n). (additional references)
Antonyms: capital (n), upper case (n), upper-case letter (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Small Letter

DomainTitle

Books

  • Suggestions for Making Money Addressing and Stuffing Envelopes or How to Run a Small Letter Shop Service (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Small Letter

Language Translations for "small letter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

pusullë (memorandum, note). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

малки букви. (various references)

   

Czech

  

malé písmeno. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

minuskel (lower case letter), kleine letter (lower case letter). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

minusklo (lower case letter). (various references)

   

French

  

minuscule. (various references)

   

German

  

kleinbuchstabe (lower-case letter). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kisbetű (lowercase). (various references)

   

Italian

  

lettera minuscola (lower case). (various references)

   

Manx

  

lettyr beg. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

allsmay etterlay

   

Portuguese

  

minúscula (lower case letter). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

строчная буква. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

malo slovo (lower-case letter), malim slovima (lower case). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

minúscula (lower case, minuscule). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

küçük harf (lower case, minuscule). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Small Letter

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-l-l-m-r-s-t-t"

-2 letters: streamlet, telltales.

-3 letters: alertest, maltster, martlets, stellate, teamster, telltale, tramells.

-4 letters: alleles, armlets, elaters, estreat, lamster, letters, mallees, mallets, martlet, matters, melters, metates, mettles, rattles, realest, relates, remates, remelts, reslate, resmelt, restate, retaste, reteams, retells, settler, smaller, smatter, smeller, smelter, starlet, startle, stealer, steamer, stellar, sterlet, tallest, tellers, tramell, tramels, trestle.

-5 letters: alerts, allees.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Small Letter


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 6D 61 6C 6C      4C 65 74 74 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101101 01100001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01001100 01100101 01110100 01110100 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#109 &#97 &#108 &#108 &#32 &#76 &#101 &#116 &#116 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006D 0061 006C 006C      004C 0065 0074 0074 0065 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53796778782467186867184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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