A contraction of a word is made by omitting certain letters or syllables and bringing together the first and last letters or elements ; an abbreviation may be made by omitting certain portions from the interior or by cutting off a part.

The more ambitious theory of Wilhelm Nitsche, which assigned to Anaximenes a larger part of the Demosthenic corpus ( speeches 10-13 and 25, letters 1-4, proems ), can be rejected.

Note that the 64x16 TRS-80 mode screen uses only a small part of the monitor screen, because the letters are the same size as the 80 × 25 CP / M screen, this was one of the things that was soon after fixed with the redesign to a commercial product

Many letters look similar but are distinguished from one another by dots () above or below their central part, called.

These dots are an integral part of a letter, since they distinguish between letters that represent different sounds.

Roman control of Britain finally ended in the early part of the 5th century ; the date usually given as marking the end of Roman Britain is 410, when the Emperor Honorius sent letters to the British, urging them to look to their own defence.

Encouraged, however, by letters signed by the rabbis of Argentière and Lunel, and particularly by the support of Kalonymus ben Todros, the nasi of Narbonne, and of the eminent Talmudist Asheri of Toledo, Ben Adret issued a decree, signed by thirty-three rabbis of Barcelona, excommunicating those who should, within the next fifty years, study physics or metaphysics before their thirtieth year of age ( basing his action on the principle laid down by Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed part one chapter 34 ), and had the order promulgated in the synagogue on Sabbath, July 26, 1305.

He ordained further that some should be called " Abbreviators of the Upper Bar " ( Abbreviatores de Parco Majori ; the name derived from a space in the chancery, surrounded by a grating, in which the officials sat, which is called higher or lower ( major or minor ) according to the proximity of the seats to that of the vice-chancellor ), the others of the Lower Bar ( Abbreviatores de Parco Minori ); that the former should sit upon a slightly raised portion of the chamber, separated from the rest of the hall or chamber by lattice work, assist the Cardinal Vice-Chancellor, subscribe the letters and have the principal part in examining, revising, and expediting the apostolic letters to be issued with the leaden seal ; that the latter, however, should sit among the apostolic writers upon benches in the lower part of the chamber, and their duty was to carry the signed schedules or supplications to the prelates of the upper bar.

Although the duty of Abbreviators was originally to make abstracts and abridgments of the apostolic letters, diplomas, etc., using the legal abbreviations, clauses, and formularies, in course of time, as their office grew in importance they delegated that part of their office to their substitute and confined themselves to overseeing the proper expedition of the apostolic letters.

Ambrose's letters to Origen ( praised by Jerome ) are lost, although part of one exists.

For the most part, Bayer assigned Greek and Latin letters to stars in rough order of apparent brightness, from brightest to dimmest, within a particular constellation.

Bayer did not always follow this rule ; he sometimes assigned letters to stars according to their location within a constellation ( for example: the northern, southern, eastern, or western part of a constellation ), according to either the order in which they rise in the east, to historical or mythological information on specific stars within a constellation, or to his own random choosing.

They arise out of a primitive practice on the part of the bishop ( local president ), examples of which are found in the Didachē ( Teaching of the Apostles ) and in the letters of Clement of Rome and Cyprian.

The earliest known chord keyboard was part of the " five-needle " telegraph operator station, designed by Wheatstone and Cooke in 1836, in which any two of the five needles could point left or right to indicate letters on a grid.

The choices of letters come from the original convention, which is to use the latter part of the alphabet to indicate unknown values.

The European Pro Electron coding system for active components was introduced in 1966 and comprises two letters followed by the part code.

* Spanish foreign minister Juan Valera's Pepita Jimenez ( 1874 ) is writing in three sections, with the first and third being a series of letters, while the middle part is a narration by an unknown observer.

A modified version of this proposal was accepted by Cromwell and the Council of Officers and less than a month after the dissolution of the Rump, during May 1653, letters in the name of the Lord-General and the Army Council were sent to Congregational churches in every county in England to nominate those they considered fit to take part in the new government.

Fingerspelling has only become a part of NZSL since the 1980s ; prior to that, words could be spelled or initialised by tracing letters in the air.

The fact that even the larger letters weighed only 5 lb. each made it possible to secure the letters to the building through clear acrylic angle brackets cemented to the letters.

A " piece " is a more elaborate representation of the artist's name, incorporating more stylized letters, usually incorporating a much larger range of colors.

But where the Renaissance faces tend to use smaller letters with longer vertical lines ( ascenders and descenders ) with lighter strokes, Palatino has larger proportions, and is considered to be a much easier to read typeface.

If the cipher operates on single letters, it is termed a simple substitution cipher ; a cipher that operates on larger groups of letters is termed polygraphic.

The larger Norfolk International Airport ( often known locally by its code letters " ORF ") also serves the region.

Uncial itself probably comes from St. Jerome's preface to the Book of Job, where it is found in the form uncialibus, but it is possible that this is a misreading of inicialibus ( though this makes little sense in the context ), and Jerome may have been referring to the larger initial letters found at the beginning of paragraphs.

These numerals are then indicated by being rendered in a larger size than that of the surrounding letters.

His crowning achievement was the great victory near the Dvina River in the Battle of Kircholm ( modern Salaspils, Latvia ) on September 27, 1605, when with barely 4000 troops, mostly the famous heavy hussars, he annihilated a threefold larger Swedish army ; for which feat he received letters of congratulation from the Pope, all the Catholic potentates of Europe, and even the sultan of Turkey and the shah of Persia.

The idents featured a 2D animation of either the letters interacting in some way, a letter being replaced with another object, or the word being part of a larger scene, such as a cross word of place names in the region.

This could be interaction between other letters in the name, letters being replaced by objects, or the letters becoming part of something larger, such as a crossword of places in London.

* There are no lower or upper case letters, but the first letter of a proper name was often written a bit larger.

It includes the phrase " fire, great noise ," but overlooks the fact that the letters which make up those two words are actually part of a larger phrase from Genesis 35: 4 which says: " under the terebinth that was near Shechem.

The letters of the alphabet, generally in their ordinary sequence, stand at the beginning of smaller or larger sections of Psalms 9-10 ( probably ), 15, 34, 37, 111, 112, 119, 145 ; Proverbs 31: 10-31 ; Lamentations 1-4 ; and also of Sirach 51: 13-29, as the newly discovered Hebrew text of this book has shown ( see, on Psalms 25 and 34 especially, Hirsch in " Am.

It would surely have been placed more in the middle and in larger letters ... Barbatus ’ erasure suggests that the letters were the same size and the lines the same length as the extant text.

* 1970 — Black and lime green label, I-R logo in red box on left side, IMPERIAL shown ( in slightly larger letters than the previous label ) under logo.

The 2009, 2010 and the new 2011 penny features a new design on the back, which displays the phrase " E Pluribus unum " in larger letters than in previous years.

The exception to this rule is larger countries that have single-letter country codes, where the remaining three letters identify the airport.

Instead he used capital and lower-case letters, numerals, and every typographical symbol available on his extensive and somewhat eccentric typewriter.

In 2004, Italian professor Bruno Fabbiani claimed that examination of the 42-line Bible revealed an overlapping of letters, suggesting that Gutenberg did not in fact use movable type ( individual cast characters ) but rather used whole plates made from a system somewhat like a modern typewriter, whereby the letters were stamped successively into the plate and then printed.

An opponent of a somewhat similar nature was Jovinianus, with whom he came into conflict in 392 ( Adversus Jovinianum, Against Jovinianus ) and the defense of this work addressed to his friend Pammachius, numbered 48 in the letters ).

The curvilinear letters of the alphabet are rope-or thread-like, displaying loops and even knots, and are somewhat reminiscent of Sinhala alphabets.

Fragments of letters he wrote reveal that he composed a Rule for monastic life that was somewhat less austere than the Rule written by his contemporary, Saint David, and set suitable penances for its breach.

In one of his letters, Hans-Gerd referred to his father's " somewhat plentiful nicotine and alcohol consumption ," but assured his mother that Rundstedt's health was basically sound.

The letters are of much biographical interest and historical importance, and the Recherches contain in a somewhat miscellaneous fashion invaluable information on a vast variety of subjects, literary, political, antiquarian and other.

His letters perhaps somewhat exaggerate the danger in which he lived, but there is no doubt that his authority was resisted and his overtures rejected.

Wyttenbach's biography was written in a somewhat dry and lifeless manner by Mahne, one of his pupils, who also published some of his letters.

As well as this rivalry between the two sisters, Anna had other difficulties growing up-' a somewhat troubled youngster who complained to her father in candid letters how all sorts of unreasonable thoughts and feelings plagued her '.

The poem is the epitaph of a man, identified only by a combination of letters and numbers somewhat like an American Social Security number (" JS / 07 / M / 378 "), who is described entirely in external terms: from the point of view of government organizations such as the fictional " Bureau of Statistics.

This somewhat resembles the current emblem, except that the enclosing shield has a blue background, the inescutcheon is based on the flag of Upper Volta with the superimposed letters " RHV " ( for République de Haute-Volta ), and the motto was Unité, Travail, Justice (" Unity, Labour, Justice ").

The first ones had black letters on a white background and were, somewhat smaller than the current sign.

There is a possibility that Sha was taken from the Coptic alphabet, which was the same as the Greek alphabet but had a few letters added at the end, including one called " shai " which somewhat resembles both sha and shcha ( Щ, щ ) in appearance.

For example, lowercase letters were added to the back of each Letter Person ( previously they had been placed on each character somewhat randomly ).

Though Guicciardini was on a somewhat higher social standing than his friend, through their letters a relaxed, comfortable relationship between the two emerges.

This proved somewhat awkward over a decade, so the station collected letters from listeners and community listeners and lobbied the FCC to allow the station to drop one of its Ks.

In the Japanese subspecies, the male calls twice and the female responds with one note, whereas the mainland subspecies has a somewhat more elaborate, 4-note duet: HOO-hoo, HOOO-hoooo ( here, the male call is in capital letters ( HOO ) and the female call in lower case ( hoo )).

When reproducing form letters from punched tape, the enormous energy input to the device made watching it a somewhat frightening experience.

Old Persian cuneiform script is somewhat similar, with more than one inherent vowel, but is not an abugida because the non-inherent vowels are written with full letters, and are often redundantly written after an inherent vowel other than / a /.

As the number 24 is auspicious for Mandaeans ( it is the number of hours from sunset to sunset ), the additional letters are somewhat artificial.

This affinity obtains not only in the subject of the letters, which from the similarity of situation in the persons to whom they were addressed might be expected to be somewhat alike, but extends in a great variety of instances to the phrases and expressions.

" These letters ( which overlap somewhat ) have been published twice.