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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
alphabetical
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
alphabetical order
▪ List the names in alphabetical order.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
index
▪ Before 1952 the only alphabetical index was at the end of the volume.
list
▪ A straight forward alphabetical list must form the core of the language list.
order
▪ They are not in alphabetical order, but in the order you are likely to want to use them.
▪ Imagine trying to rearrange a table consisting of 100 salespeople into alphabetical order by names or into numerical order by sales amounts.
▪ The users are listed in alphabetical order.
▪ In the dictionary of cheeses that appears at the end of this chapter some cheeses are briefly described in alphabetical order.
▪ If the user wanted the list in alphabetical order, it would have to be retyped.
▪ It is arranged in alphabetical order.
▪ The project described below are, where appropriate, shown in country alphabetical order.
▪ Part 2 is a series of 784 short monographs on supplementary drugs and other substances arranged in alphabetical order.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Any other indication of document content, such as classification notation or alphabetical subject headings, are partial representations of content.
▪ Anyone may display the list, which is arranged in alphabetical order.
▪ Figure 16.3 shows that there are two lists - classified and alphabetical and demonstrates the relationships between them.
▪ Hence it is called ideographic. in contradistinction from the phonographic or alphabetical system of writing.
▪ If the user wanted the list in alphabetical order, it would have to be retyped.
▪ In the dictionary of cheeses that appears at the end of this chapter some cheeses are briefly described in alphabetical order.
▪ It will also be considered in some detail in parts of succeeding chapters on alphabetical indexing languages and alphabetical indexing systems.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Alphabetical

Alphabetic \Al`pha*bet"ic\, Alphabetical \Al`pha*bet"ic*al\, a.

  1. Pertaining to, furnished with, expressed by, or in the order of, the letters of the alphabet; as, alphabetic characters, writing, languages, arrangement. English has an alphabetical writing system.

  2. Literal. [Obs.] ``Alphabetical servility.''
    --Milton.

  3. in alphabetical order.

    Syn: abecedarian

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
alphabetical

1560s, from alphabet + -ical. Related: Alphabetically.

Wiktionary
alphabetical

a. 1 Pertaining to, furnished with, or expressed by letters of the alphabet. 2 According to the sequence of the letters of the alphabet. 3 (context obsolete English) literal

WordNet
alphabetical
  1. adj. relating to or expressed by a writing system that uses an alphabet; "alphabetical writing system" [syn: alphabetic] [ant: analphabetic]

  2. arranged in order according to the alphabet; "an alphabetic arrangement"; "dictionaries list words in alphabetical order" [syn: alphabetic] [ant: analphabetic]

Wikipedia
Alphabetical (album)

Alphabetical is the second studio album by French indie pop band Phoenix, released in 2004. The album has sold 30,000 copies in the United States according to Nielsen SoundScan. The album has two singles; "Everything Is Everything" and "Run Run Run".

Alphabetical (game show)

Alphabetical is a game show that has aired on ITV since 15 August 2016 and is hosted by Jeff Stelling.

Alphabetical (disambiguation)

Alphabetical may refer to:

  • Alphabetical order, a ranking of words by the conventional ordering of an alphabet
  • Alphabetical (album), an album by the French indie pop band Phoenix
  • Alphabetical (game show), a British television game show

Usage examples of "alphabetical".

If you consider an alphabetical listing of the elements, actinium, element number eighty-nine, is first on the list, and zirconium, element number forty, is the last on the list.

Taking the names in alphabetical order, the first of the Norfolk men whose writings are represented is Thomas Becon or Beacon, who took orders in 1538, and preached in Norfolk and Suffolk.

As we have seen, thousands of leaf-thin gold plates were discovered in deep underground caverns in Ecuador, and the language appears to have been neither glyphic nor pictorial, but alphabetical.

American hieroglyphs peculiar signs which take the place of pictures, and which probably, like the hieratic symbols mingled with the hieroglyphics of Egypt, represent alphabetical sounds.

All root-words are treated in alphabetical order and the whole Bible has been collated for every passage containing the word, so as to explain the original idea, which is illustrated from the cognate usages of the Chaldee, Syrian, Rabbinical Hebrew and Arabic.

The manuscript writing consisted of the common traditional symbols used today in astronomy and anciently in alchemy, astrology, and other dubious arts--the devices of the sun, moon, planets, aspects, and zodiacal signs--here massed in solid pages of text, with divisions and paragraphings suggesting that each symbol answered to some alphabetical letter.

Lo Manto said, following Blind Moe into his office, watching as the old man clicked on an overhead light as he moved through a large space cluttered with cabinets, old photos resting against the sides of gray walls, bookshelves filled with jazz and blues LPs, all lined up in alphabetical order.

Whether it deals with alphabetical or pictorial writing, myth wants to see in them only a sum of signs, a global sign, the final term of a first semiological chain.

Upon that Commission the interested nations, that is to say--putting them in alphabetical order--the Africander, the Briton, the Belgian, the Egyptian, the Frenchman, the Italian, the Indian the Portuguese--might all be represented in proportion to their interest.

Objects which looked like Faberge eggs from Mars, morphing themselves with Mandaean alphabetical structures.

Infuriatingly, the ledgers were not listed in alphabetical order but by army number, which meant that every name and page had to be scanned.

And he thought he recalled starting on the liqueurs in alphabetical order, but now they sat like an oil slick on the tide of memory, turning it sluggish and opaque well short of high water.

With the couvade, the practice of circumcision, unity of religious beliefs and customs, folk-lore, and alphabetical signs, language and flood legends, we array together a mass of unanswerable proofs of prehistoric identity of race.

The top sheet was a State Justice Department publicity job--California-based Commie fronts in alphabetical order.

She touched an alphabetical sequence-SUNSHINE, the name of Parker's cocker spaniel-and heard another beep.