Word Meanings - TRANSLITERATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To express or represent in the characters of another alphabet; as, to transliterate Sanskrit words by means of English letters. A. J. Ellis.

Related words: (words related to TRANSLITERATE)

• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• ALPHABET
  1. The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language. 2. The simplest rudiments; elements. The very alphabet of our law. Macaulay. Deaf and dumb alphabet.
• WORDSMAN
  One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist. "Some speculative wordsman." H. Bushnell.
• REPRESENTANT
  Appearing or acting for another; representing.
• ALPHABETISM
  The expression of spoken sounds by an alphabet. Encyc. Brit.
• EXPRESSURE
  The act of expressing; expression; utterance; representation. An operation more divine Than breath or pen can give expressure to. Shak.
• EXPRESS TRAIN
  Formerly, a railroad train run expressly for the occasion; a special train; now, a train run at express or special speed and making few stops.
• ALPHABETICALLY
  In an alphabetic manner; in the customary order of the letters.
• EXPRESSIVE
  1. Serving to express, utter, or represent; indicative; communicative; -- followed by of; as, words expressive of his gratitude. Each verse so swells expressive of her woes. Tickell. 2. Full of expression; vividly representing the meaning
• REPRESENTATIVELY
  In a representative manner; vicariously.
• EXPRESSNESS
  The state or quality of being express; definiteness. Hammond.
• SANSKRITIST
  One versed in Sanskrit.
• EXPRESSIONAL
  Of, or relating to, expression; phraseological; also, vividly representing or suggesting an idea sentiment. Fized. Hall. Ruskin.
• ANOTHER
  1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. 2. Not the same; different. He winks,
• EXPRESSIONLESS
  Destitute of expression.
• REPRESENTATIONARY
  Implying representation; representative.
• REPRESENTER
  1. One who shows, exhibits, or describes. Sir T. Browne. 2. A representative. Swift.
• ALPHABETICS
  The science of representing spoken sounds by letters.
• SWORDSMANSHIP
  The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper.
• IRREPRESENTABLE
  Not capable of being represented or portrayed.
• PARNELLISM
  The policy or principles of the Parnellites.
• INEXPRESSIBLY
  In an inexpressible manner or degree; unspeakably; unutterably. Spectator.
• EMBELLISH
  To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrative with striking anecdotes, or style with metaphors. Syn. -- To adorn; beautify; deck;
• POINT ALPHABET
  An alphabet for the blind with a system of raised points corresponding to letters.
• SWORDSMAN
  1. A soldier; a fighting man. 2. One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.
• UNEXPRESSIBLE
  Inexpressible. Tillotson. -- Un`ex*press"i*bly, adv.
• DISEMBELLISH
  To deprive of embellishment; to disadorn. Carlyle.