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spelling
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spell \Spell\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Spelling.] [AS. spelian to supply another's place.] To supply the place of for a time; to take the turn of, at work; to relieve; as, to spell the helmsman.
Spelling \Spell"ing\, n. The act of one who spells; formation of words by letters; orthography.
Spelling \Spell"ing\, a. Of or pertaining to spelling.
Spelling bee, a spelling match. [U.S.]
Spelling book, a book with exercises for teaching children to spell; a speller.
Spelling match, a contest of skill in spelling words, between two or more persons.
Spell \Spell\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spelledor Spelt; p. pr. & vb. n. Spelling.] [OE. spellen, spellien, tell, relate, AS. spellian, fr. spell a saying, tale; akin to MHG. spellen to relate, Goth. spill?n.e Spell a tale. In sense 4 and those following, OE. spellen, perhaps originally a different word, and from or influenced by spell a splinter, from the use of a piece of wood to point to the letters in schools: cf. D. spellen to spell. Cf. Spell splinter.]
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To tell; to relate; to teach. [Obs.]
Might I that legend find, By fairies spelt in mystic rhymes.
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To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm. ``Spelled with words of power.''
--Dryden.He was much spelled with Eleanor Talbot.
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To constitute; to measure. [Obs.]
The Saxon heptarchy, when seven kings put together did spell but one in effect.
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To tell or name in their proper order letters of, as a word; to write or print in order the letters of, esp. the proper letters; to form, as words, by correct orthography.
The word ``satire'' ought to be spelled with i, and not with y.
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To discover by characters or marks; to read with difficulty; -- usually with out; as, to spell out the sense of an author; to spell out a verse in the Bible.
To spell out a God in the works of creation.
--South.To sit spelling and observing divine justice upon every accident.
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "action of reading letter by letter," verbal noun from spell (v.1). Meaning "manner of forming words with letters" is from 1660s; meaning "a way a word has been spelled" is from 1731. Spelling bee is from 1878 (see bee; earlier spelling match, 1845; the act of winning such a schoolroom contest is described 1854 as to spell (someone) down).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The act, practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography. 2 (context uncountable English) The manner of spelling of words; correct spelling. 3 (context countable English) A specific spelling of a word. 4 (context US rare dated countable or uncountable English) A spelling test or spelling bee. vb. (present participle of spell English)
WordNet
n. forming words with letters according to the principles underlying accepted usage
Wikipedia
Spelling is the writing of a word or words with the necessary letters and diacritics present in a comprehensible order, usually with some degree of standardization; it is "the conventions which determine how the graphemes of a writing system are used to write a language". Spelling is one of the elements of orthography, and standardized spelling is a prescriptive element.
Spellings attempt to transcribe the sounds of the language according to the alphabetic principle, but fully phonetic spellings are exceptions in many languages for various reasons. Pronunciation changes over time in all languages, yet spelling is irregular in most languages and rare in some. In addition, words from other languages may be adopted without being adapted to the spelling system, non-standard spellings are often adopted after extensive common usage, and different meanings of a word or homophones may be deliberately spelled in different ways to differentiate them visually.
Spelling is the writing of words with all necessary letters and diacritics present in an accepted, conventional order.
Spelling or Spellings is the name of:
- Aaron Spelling (1923–2006), American film and television producer
- Candy Spelling (born 1945), author, socialite, widow of Aaron Spelling
- Randy Spelling (born 1978), American actor
- Margaret Spellings (born 1957), United States Secretary of Education from 2005–2009
- Tori Spelling (born 1973), American actress
Usage examples of "spelling".
Can anyone give me a group of four homonyms, four words all pronounced alike, with spelling and meaning different in each case?
Ransaran was riddled with irregular verb forms, homonyms, synonyms, irregular spellings, nonstandard pronunciations, and appropriations from every other major language.
It had virtually no irregular verbs and very few homonyms, and a completely consistent phonetic spelling.
It is still necessary to use hyphens when spelling outnumbers, such as thirty-two, forty-nine.
CHAPTER 6 Carlyle House has been the property of the Dukes of Cumberland since it was built, although it is frequently and erroneously supposed that it is a part of the heritage of the Marquisate of Carlisle by those who do not recognize that the names are similar in pronunciation but not in spelling.
He was pecking away at an overdue report, looking up the spelling of a word, when suddenly he ripped the page from his dictionary and threw the book against the wall.
I see the joke yet in spelling patroon with an o for the a and an ell for good measure!
I did not even know if Miss Semon is the correct spelling, or if Miss Semone is the correct spelling.
THE first time I was in Egypt a Simplified Spelling epidemic had broken out and the atmosphere was electrica with feeling engendered by the subject.
There is a memorandum of a pamphlet on simplified spelling which I cannot identify or trace.
His paper was a much-crumpled piece that he had found that morning in the wastebasket, and as yet his writing and spelling were poor enough, but he knew what he wanted to express, and this is what he wrote: DEAR BISHOP: I hav ben mene and bad i am not def and dum but i acted like i was caus I thot you wood not kepe me if yu knu I am sory now so i am going away but i am going to kepe strate and not bee bad any more ever.
What dreadful work Spelling made among those slight reputations, floating in swollen tenuity on the surface of the stream, and mirroring each other in reciprocal reflections!
Transliterate them into Roman alphabet spellings and Arabic numerals, and somewhere, somebody would spot each numerical significance, as Hubert Penrose and Mort Tranter and she had done with the table of elements.
The lines and circles of the hieroglyphs spelling unfound grew clearer.
Mona Woolner wrote a syndicated newspaper column on English usage in which she found fault with the grammar, spelling, and punctuation of everybody from the Bard of Avon to the Royal family of Great Britain.