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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. Feb 7, 2011 · Here is the discussion of reliable and dependable in Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms (1942):. A person or thing is reliable when one can count on him or it not to fail in doing what he or it is expected to do competently (as, she is a very reliable servant; one of the most reliable of our employees; a reliable washing machine), or to give or tell the exact truth (as, a reliable work of reference; reliable testimony.

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

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. When I was small and started to study English, I had pictures labelled cock, hen and chicken.. Now when I search the net for pictures for showing to my children, I see the same pictures, but this time they are labelled rooster, chicken and chick.

  10. Feb 10, 2020 · 111. "Have had" is using the verb have in the present perfect tense. Consider the present tense sentence: I have a lot of homework. This means that I have a lot of homework now. On the other hand, we use the present perfect tense to describe an event from the past that has some connection to the present. Compare the following two sentences: I ...

  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.