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Spelling   /spˈɛlɪŋ/   Listen
Spelling

noun
1.
Forming words with letters according to the principles underlying accepted usage.


Spell

verb
(when related to words: past & past part. spelt or spelled; pres. part. spelling)  (when related to turns: past & past part. spelled; pres. part. spelling)
1.
Orally recite the letters of or give the spelling of.  Synonym: spell out.  "We had to spell out our names for the police officer"
2.
Indicate or signify.  Synonym: import.
3.
Write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word).  Synonym: write.
4.
Relieve (someone) from work by taking a turn.
5.
Place under a spell.
6.
Take turns working.



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"Spelling" Quotes from Famous Books



... pair to the station; the station-master who arranged for them a little salvo of his own, which took the form of fog-signals, as the train came in—they were all there, and there was not an error in their initials or in the spelling of their names, although there were a good many in the list of distinguished guests, and still more in the long catalogue ...
— The Squire's Daughter - Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons • Archibald Marshall
... and the spelling of this journal are very bad. It abounds in tautology and repetitions. Facts are sometimes inverted in the order of time; but to remedy all these defects it would have been necessary to recast the whole, which would have completely changed the character of the work. ...
— The Memoirs of Louis XV. and XVI., Volume 1 • Madame du Hausset, and of an Unknown English Girl and the Princess Lamballe
... think I have you fast: Unchain your spirits now with spelling charms, And try if they can gain your liberty. A goodly prize, fit for the devil's grace! See, how the ugly witch doth bend her brows, As if with Circe she would change ...
— King Henry VI, First Part • William Shakespeare [Aldus edition]
... the bearing of a prizefighter, but the heart of an amiable child, came over and picked up the book. He sat down at the table with me and looked at it. I was a little doubtful how to explain matters, for I felt that it was the kind of book he would not be likely to care for. He began spelling it ...
— Mince Pie • Christopher Darlington Morley
... Corrected spelling of Breckinridge, John C. to match correct spelling as in text (based on ...
— A Short History of Pittsburgh • Samuel Harden Church


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