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    legible
    /ˈlɛdʒɪbl/

    adjective

    • 1. (of handwriting or print) clear enough to read: "the original typescript is scarcely legible"

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  2. Feb 16, 2012 · 4,713 18 22. Add a comment. 2. Legibility is about how easy it is to distinguish individual elements such as letters. Readability is about how easily blocks of elements—such as paragraphs—are understood. — Source 1. — Source 2 provides a picture of less-legible, more-readable text, and the opposite. — Source 3.

  3. Jun 23, 2016 · 27.6k 3 57 106. Add a comment. 1. M-W licenses the broadening of the application of 'legible' to include other 'readable language': Full Definition of legible. 1 : capable of being read or deciphered : plain. 2 : capable of being discovered or understood. ... an anxious mood that was clearly legible upon her face.

  4. Sep 25, 2018 · Legible means that a text satisfies the most basic requirement for the act of reading: that the symbols — in English letters, words, and punctuation — can be deciphered. Scrawled on the inside lid of the old discolored Chocolate Box from the late 1800's was a barely legible message, expressing the last wishes of a loving mother. — C.

  5. Sep 17, 2015 · If legible, handwriting can be read and communicates to the reader who speaks the same language. Art is ...

  6. Jun 9, 2017 · You will find that to be true for 100s of word pairs, for example Responsible & Responsibility. Such word pairs represent words of French or Latin origin.

  7. Jul 8, 2013 · To define is to delineate a specific meaning of a word. To describe is to provide useful attributes of something represented by that word. For example, it is hard to define "god" but easy to define "car."

  8. Historically, shall referred to obligation while will referred to personal volition. Few speakers still make the distinction, but in legal terms it is usually upheld. 'He will do it' thus means that he wants to do it, whereas 'he shall do it' means that he is obliged to do it. – Anonym. Jan 31, 2014 at 17:52.

  9. Autological word. A word is autological or homological if it describes itself. The common term for this is a backronym, a back-formation acronym. Also known as recursive acronym / metacronym/ recursive initialism, this is a fun way to coin names for new programming languages and such.

  10. How does one correctly apply “in which”, “of which”, “at which”, “to which”, etc.? I'm confused with which one to apply when constructing sentences around these.

  11. I have heard the term "CFNM" being used in sexuality, does anybody know what the term means ? (Note: OP said "CNFM", but another user edited that to "CFNM".) Actually 'googling' didn't help at all.