Crossword clues for braille
braille
- Liberal (anag)
- Writing for blind
- Touching letters?
- Textured text
- System of raised dots
- System for blind readers
- Reading system
- Reading matter for the blind
- Louis who taught the blind
- Louis who is buried at the Panthéon
- Letters read with feeling?
- It's on Alabama's state quarter
- French educator Louis
- Embossed type
- Alphabet you can feel
- Alphabet read with the fingers
- Alphabet for the blind
- ADA-compliant elevator-button addition
- ___ Literacy Month (January)
- Words read with feeling?
- It has many tangible points
- Touch-type?
- Touching words?
- French educator who lost his sight at the age of three and who invented a system of writing and printing for sightless people (1809-152)
- A point system of writing in which patterns of raised dots represent letters and numerals
- Tactile writing
- Famed teacher of the blind
- Raised writing
- Writing for the blind
- System of writing for the blind
- Affected liberal writing style
- Liberal translation of writing system
- Reading this is a touching experience
- Touchy subject?
- Text that can be felt
- Writing system
- Unspoken language
- System of raised writing
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
braille \braille\ v. 1. to transcribe in Braille.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1853, from Louis Braille (1809-1852), French musician and teacher, blind from age 3, who devised it c.1830.
Wiktionary
a. (alternative case form of braille English) n. (alternative case form of braille English) n. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Braille
Wikipedia
Braille is a tactile writing system used by people who are blind or visually impaired. It is traditionally written with embossed paper. Braille-users can read computer screens and other electronic supports thanks to refreshable braille displays. They can write braille with the original slate and stylus or type it on a braille writer, such as a portable braille note-taker, or on a computer that prints with a braille embosser.
Braille is named after its creator, Frenchman Louis Braille, who lost his eyesight due to a childhood accident. In 1824, at the age of 15, Braille developed his code for the French alphabet as an improvement on night writing. He published his system, which subsequently included musical notation, in 1829. The second revision, published in 1837, was the first binary form of writing developed in the modern era.
Braille characters are small rectangular blocks called cells that contain tiny palpable bumps called raised dots. The number and arrangement of these dots distinguish one character from another. Since the various braille alphabets originated as transcription codes of printed writing systems, the mappings (sets of character designations) vary from language to language. Furthermore, in English Braille there are three levels of encoding: Grade 1 - a letter-by-letter transcription used for basic literacy; Grade 2 - an addition of abbreviations and contractions; and Grade 3 - various non-standardized personal shorthands.
Braille cells are not the only thing to appear in braille text. There may be embossed illustrations and graphs, with the lines either solid or made of series of dots, arrows, bullets that are larger than braille dots, etc. A full Braille cell includes six raised dots arranged in two lateral rows each having three dots. The dot positions are identified by numbers from one through six. 64 solutions are possible from using one or more dots. A single cell can be used to represent an alphabet letter, number, punctuation mark, or even an entire word.
In the face of screen-reader software, braille usage has declined. However, braille education remains important for developing reading skills among blind and visually impaired children, and braille literacy correlates with higher employment rates.
Bryan "Braille" Winchester (born 1981) is an American hip hop recording artist. He has been writing and recording hip-hop music since he was 13 years old. For a short time, Bryan and his family relocated to Marlton, New Jersey where he attended Eastern High School in Voorhees Township. Fully focused on music, Bryan Winchester adopted the stage name Braille Brizzy and headed back to experience the Portland music scene. The MC originally named himself "Reflection" and released one very narrowly distributed demo under the name, but later changed it to Braille.
The concept behind the name Braille relates to "Helping People Understand the things they can't see." He has worked with a host of premier hip hop recording acts including his group Lightheaded, with rapper-producer Ohmega Watts and rapper Othello. Braille was also a part of a group called Acts 29 consisting of himself, Ohmega Watts, and Soul Plasma. Acts 29 has only released one album and is not planning on releasing any more material. Braille was signed to Syntax Records in 1999 and continues to record for the label. The majority of his recordings are credited to his own label imprint "Hip-hop Is Music." Influenced by the positive vibe of the group A Tribe Called Quest, Braille started recording Christian hip hop music. His first album called Lifefirst: Half the Battle was released when he was 17 years old.
In 2009, Braille shut down his HipHop is Music label and started Humble Beast with his friend and fellow musician Thomas Terry (aka Odd Thomas), which is dedicated to giving all its music away for free. Artists currently signed to Humble Beast include Propaganda, Beautiful Eulogy, Jackie Hill-Perry, and JGivens.
Braille is a system of writing for blind people. It may also refer to:
- Louis Braille, the Frenchman who devised the writing system
- 9969 Braille, an asteroid named for Louis Braille
- Bryan "Braille" Winchester, an American rapper from Portland, Oregon
Braille is the fifth album from Json. Lamp Mode Recordings released the project on June 18, 2013.
Usage examples of "braille".
He read pages of Braille printing, the system of upraised dots designed for the blind, to sharpen his sense of touch.
These we hauled to the Braille School where they were distributed to the neediest children.
Of course I can read Braille, but most business documents are not put into Braille for me, so I rely on Justine to read them to me.
I wander the landscape by a kind of historical braille, Gaia picking up the quiet rear.
He flung open the door and they both stood there looking towards the desk behind which Quentin sat, a Braille book open in front of him, his fingers busy on the raised dots.
Produced in braille for the Library of Congress, National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, by Clovernook Printing House for the Blind, 2000.
Schmeissers, his hands moving like the hands of a man reading Braille, his black eyes looking far away.
This was climbing by Braille, running fingers and feet over the smooth surface looking for pockmarks and indentations, tapping spikes into hair-cracks, standing with the tip of a boot-toe balanced on a foothold slim as a goose-quill.
Ten pages of clauses in eight-point type: foreign rights, subsidiary rights, dramatizations, radio and television serialization, film rights, Braille editions, abridgments for Reader’s Digest, guarantees against libel suits, all disputes to be settled by Milan courts.
Schumacher, a book of simple stories for him to read and a Braille slate and stylus and some stiff paper so that he could learn to write.
They were having an intense and appropriately heated discussion on the problems of cold-spots (as evinced by the fact that their first attempts came out looking like braille roundels), and on the unfortunate instability of three poppadoms balanced together - caused not so much by the jerk they received when the turntable started up as by their movements while they cooked and swelled - but eventually my flatmates settled on the concept of standing the things up individually on the glass turntable, and so instigated what they termed a 'brain-storming session' in an attempt to find a suitable support mechanism.
It wasn't like the kids this afternoon, with their jokes about reading the waffle iron and what does a Playboy centerfold look like in Braille.