Braille
Louis [loo-is, loo-ee; French lwee], /ˈlu ɪs, ˈlu i; French lwi/, 1809–52, French teacher of the blind.
a system of writing or printing, devised by L. Braille for use by the blind, in which combinations of tangible dots or points are used to represent letters, characters, etc., that are read by touch.
to write or transliterate in Braille characters.
Origin of Braille
1- Also braille (for defs. 2, 3) .
Words Nearby Braille
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How to use Braille in a sentence
On the bench, Tatel uses a small Braille computer, listening through one earpiece as he clicks through his meticulous notes.
A student in Hong Kong made headlines in 2013 by teaching herself to read Braille with her lips.
Father-son bond inspires sweets that model the shapes of molecules | Carmen Drahl | June 30, 2021 | Science News For StudentsA student in Hong Kong made headlines in 2013 for teaching herself to read Braille with her lips.
A sweet father-son bond inspires tasty new molecule models | Carmen Drahl | May 28, 2021 | Science NewsIt shows her struggling to navigate the website for the memorial, and then once there, trying to piece together the Braille like a puzzle.
A disabled president’s memorial still isn’t fully accessible to disabled visitors, a new report finds | Theresa Vargas | May 19, 2021 | Washington PostA simple solution, she says, would be to add small signs that explain in readable Braille that the Braille on the memorial is an artistic rendering that is not to scale.
A disabled president’s memorial still isn’t fully accessible to disabled visitors, a new report finds | Theresa Vargas | May 19, 2021 | Washington Post
If our interview were in person, she would ask me to type out questions on a Braille display.
TEDx Talks Have a Disability Problem—but This Incredible Young Woman Is Working to Change That | Nina Strochlic | November 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTKandynce went to Braille school so she could keep up her passion for reading, history in particular.
According to the American Foundation for the Blind, Dufau eventually relented and the Braille code spread throughout the world.
This refers again to the printing of some of his books in Braille type for the blind.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) | Robert Louis StevensonHe learned me the deaf alphabet, and how to read in the Braille book, and it's not so bad now.
Workhouse Characters | Margaret Wynne NevinsonThe fingers of the blind spelled out its optimism and its selections at Hawthorne in Braille.
The Syndic | C.M. KornbluthHe has brought his Braille printing to a fine state of perfection.
They take in and read Braille magazines in various languages.
British Dictionary definitions for Braille (1 of 2)
/ (breɪl) /
a system of writing for the blind consisting of raised dots that can be interpreted by touch, each dot or group of dots representing a letter, numeral, or punctuation mark
any writing produced by this method: Compare Moon
(tr) to print or write using this method
British Dictionary definitions for Braille (2 of 2)
/ (French braj) /
Louis (lwi). 1809–52, French inventor, musician, and teacher of the blind, who himself was blind from the age of three and who devised the Braille system of raised writing
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Cultural definitions for Braille
A system of writing and printing for the blind in which arrangements of raised dots representing letters and numbers can be identified by touch.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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