Crossword clues for cursive
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cursive \Cur"sive\ (k?r"s?v), a. [LL. cursivus: cf. F. cursif See Cursitor.] Running; flowing.
Cursive hand,a running handwriting.
Cursive \Cur"sive\, n.
A character used in cursive writing.
A manuscript, especially of the New Testament, written in small, connected characters or in a running hand; -- opposed to uncial.
--Shipley.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 Running; flowing. 2 Having successive letters joined together. n. 1 A cursive character, letter or font. 2 A manuscript written in cursive characters. 3 Writing style.
WordNet
adj. having successive letter joined together; "cursive script"
n. rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper [syn: longhand, running hand, cursive script]
Wikipedia
Cursive (also known as script or longhand, among other names), is any style of penmanship in which some characters are written joined together in a flowing manner, generally for the purpose of making writing faster. Formal cursive is generally joined, but casual cursive is a combination of joins and pen lifts. The writing style can be further divided as "looped", " italic", or "connected".
The cursive method is used with a number of alphabets due to its improved writing speed and infrequent pen lifting. In some alphabets, many or all letters in a word are connected, sometimes making a word one single complex stroke.
Cursive is an American indie rock band from Omaha, Nebraska, on Saddle Creek Records/ Big Scary Monsters (UK). Described as emo-tinged post-hardcore, Cursive came to prominence with 2000's Domestica and found commercial and critical success with 2003's The Ugly Organ. The band has released seven studio albums, a compilations album, and a mix of singles and EPs since 1997.
Usage examples of "cursive".
In fact, Arabic as we understand it is derived from Aramaic, via the cursive script of the Nabateans who, as we have seen, had their capital at Petra, in what is now Jordan.
The characters range between square Kufic, hardly antedating four centuries, and the cursive form of our day.
Turkish marines wreaked gory havoc with boarding pikes and cursive swords on his left and, beyond them, Sir Calum and the Baron Melchoro stood back to back, plying Irish shortswords and spiked bucklers to fearsome effect, while shouting gruesome jokes to one another and roaring out snatches of bawdy songs.
They clattered up a remarkably human-scaled ladder, passed through anomer long corridor, and ended up at a door prominently marked with a cursive "ggollloppgggU.
Eliza assures herself that as soon as she gets called out her stomach will stop churning, she will stop sweating, and cursive capital Q will start looking like a letter instead of like the number 2.
Her thigh, freshly branded, bore the common slave mark of Gor, the initial letter, in cursive script, of the Gorean expression 'Kajira,' which means Slave Girl.
As Bass Foster led his staff and galloglaiches down the long, cursive roadway toward the gate that pierced the wall circumscribing the old outer bailey of Whyffler Hall, the taste of the good brown ale that had filled the stirrup cup still on his lips and the adrenaline rising at the thought of the cross-country hell-ride that would put them all back in York considerably faster than they had proceeded from that city's environs, his musings lay with all that had gone before, as well as all that loomed on the near horizon.
Graphemes The ancient Arabic script, a naturally cursive script with up to four different forms for each letter (depending on its position-initial, medial, final, or uncon nected-m a word), has, through millennia of usage been streamlined and at times arbitrarily restructured so that it has come to be an alphabetic script with only one form of a letter per sound unit This latest innovation was attributed to the planetologist Liet-Kynes during his stay on Arrakis with the Fremen tribes Other pnor innovations included the introduction of symbols to represent vowels (ancient Arabic script indicated short vowels only by infrequently used diacritical marks) attributed to Ah Ben Ohasi and later modi fied by the Fremen in the fast copies of their desert survival manual, the Kitab al Ibar The Fremen script in use during die time .
But then the next morning Isaac had received a letter in her cursive hand, couriered across the city with an expensive guaranteed delivery.
But then the next morning Isaac had received a letter in her cursive hand, couriered across the city with an expensive guaranteed delivery.
Only one was in English and that, like the instructions in the vault, was in the familiar cursive hand of Basil Zaharoff.
The writing is Greek of the purest classical quality, and several students of palaeography declare that the characters are in a cursive hand used about the second century B.
The poem came back with an A and the comment in Fitz-Hallan's cursive hand that This poem is sensitive and mature, and must have been difficult for you to write.
But then the next morning Isaac had received a letter in her cursive hand, couriered across the city with an expensive guaran.
I regarded the engraving on the collar, tiny, in neat, cursive script.