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Search references for UTF 8. Phrases containing UTF 8
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Search references for UTF 8. Phrases containing UTF 8
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ASCII-compatible variable-width encoding of Unicode
from Unicode Transformation Format – 8-bit. As of 2026, almost every webpage (99%) is transmitted as UTF-8. UTF-8 supports all 1,112,064 valid Unicode
UTF-8
Variable-width encoding of Unicode, using one or two 16-bit code units
web pages (and even then, the web pages are most likely also using UTF-8). UTF-8, by comparison, gained dominance years ago and accounted for 99% of
UTF-16
Term for computer data consisting only of unformatted characters of readable material
principle, plain text can be in any encoding, but today usually implies UTF-8. Plain text is different from formatted text, where style information is
Plain_text
Unicode character
UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 & BOM: Can a UTF-8 data stream contain the BOM character (in UTF-8 form)? If yes, then can I still assume the remaining UTF-8 bytes
Byte_order_mark
Character encoding standard
Unicode Standard itself defines three encodings: UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32, though several others exist. UTF-8 is the most widely used by a large margin, in
Unicode
Obsolete multibyte encoding for Unicode
issues, it did not gain acceptance and was quickly replaced by UTF-8. Similar to UTF-8, UTF-1 is a variable-width encoding that is backwards-compatible with
UTF-1
Encoding scheme for Unicode
The Compatibility Encoding Scheme for UTF-16: 8-Bit (CESU-8) is a variant of UTF-8 that is described in Unicode Technical Report #26. A Unicode code point
CESU-8
Character encoding for Unicode compatible with EBCDIC
points in Unicode using 1 to 5 bytes (in contrast to a maximum of 4 for UTF-8). It is meant to be EBCDIC-friendly, so that legacy EBCDIC applications
UTF-EBCDIC
Character encoding
all code points. It is unclear if other UTF-7 software (such as translators to UTF-32 or UTF-8) support this. UTF-7 has never been an official standard
UTF-7
UTF-8 string because it only looks for the ASCII '%' character to define a formatting string. All other bytes are printed unchanged. UTF-16 and UTF-32
Comparison of Unicode encodings
Comparison_of_Unicode_encodings
Encoding Unicode characters as 4 bytes per code point
UTF-32 (32-bit Unicode Transformation Format), sometimes called UCS-4, is a fixed-length encoding used to encode Unicode code points that uses exactly
UTF-32
Overview on Unicode implementation in Microsoft Windows
explicitly to the UTF-16 encoding. Anything else, including UTF-8, is not "Unicode" in Microsoft's outdated language (while UTF-8 and UTF-16 are both Unicode
Unicode_in_Microsoft_Windows
Garbled text as a result of incorrect character encodings
Asian 16-bit encodings vs European 8-bit encodings), or the use of variable length encodings (notably UTF-8 and UTF-16). Failed rendering of glyphs due
Mojibake
Email that contains non-ASCII characters in the header
(characters which do not exist in the ASCII character set), encoded as UTF-8, in the email header and in supporting mail transfer protocols. The most
International_email
Using numbers to represent text characters
8859, and Unicode encodings such as UTF-8 and UTF-16. The most popular character encoding on the World Wide Web is UTF-8, which is used in 98.9% of surveyed
Character_encoding
Sets of characters used in the 1980s & 90s
versions support Unicode, new Windows applications should use Unicode (UTF-8) and not 8-bit character encodings. There are two groups of system code pages
Windows_code_page
Process of determining content's charset
pass a UTF-8 validity test. However, badly written charset detection routines do not run the reliable UTF-8 test first, and may decide that UTF-8 is some
Charset_detection
Computer file containing plain text
most common is UTF-8, which has the advantage of being backwards-compatible with ASCII; that is, every ASCII text file is also a UTF-8 text file with
Text_file
Method of encoding characters in a URI
(A non-ASCII character is typically converted to its byte sequence in UTF-8, and then each byte value is represented as above.) The reserved character
Percent-encoding
Symbol "#!", used in computing
UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 & BOM: Can a UTF-8 data stream contain the BOM character (in UTF-8 form)? If yes, then can I still assume the remaining UTF-8 bytes
Shebang_(Unix)
Handling of strings in the C programming language
each byte of UTF-8, and/or \uNNNN for each word of UTF-16. Since C11 (and C++11), a new literal prefix u8 is available that guarantees UTF-8 for a bytestring
C_string_handling
Computer security vulnerability to gain unauthorized access to the file system
and earlier of Microsoft's IIS web server software. A badly implemented UTF-8 decoder may accept characters encoded using more bytes than necessary, leading
Directory_traversal_attack
water, and its outer (upper) trigram is ☷ (坤 kūn) field = (地) earth. Hexagram 8 is named 比 (bǐ), "Grouping". Other variations include "holding together" and
List of hexagrams of the I Ching
List_of_hexagrams_of_the_I_Ching
historically been used for storing text on the World Wide Web, though by now UTF-8 is dominant, with all languages at 95% use or higher by some estimates.
Popularity_of_text_encodings
Mathematical symbol representing infinity
Spectrum. Mathematical Association of America. pp. 1–3. ISBN 978-0-88385-576-8. Humez, Alexander; Humez, Nicholas D.; Maguire, Joseph (1993). Zero to Lazy
Infinity_symbol
American computer scientist known for Unix (born 1943)
expressions and early computer text editors QED and ed, the definition of the UTF-8 encoding, and his work on computer chess that included the creation of endgame
Ken_Thompson
Data structure
possible to store every possible ASCII or UTF-8 string. However, it is common to store the subset of ASCII or UTF-8 – every character except NUL – in null-terminated
Null-terminated_string
Nickname for 8-bit ASCII-derived character sets
software to be written in ways that made it much easier to support the UTF-8 encoding method later on. ASCII was designed in the 1960s for teleprinters
Extended_ASCII
Topics referred to by the same term
Look up UTF in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. UTF may refer to: Unicode Transformation Format UTF-1 UTF-7 UTF-8 UTF-16 UTF-32 U.T.F. (Undead Task Force)
UTF
Character encoding standard
numbers called code points) and encoding (to 8-, 16-, or 32-bit binary formats, called UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32, respectively). ASCII was incorporated into
ASCII
Unicode block containing some special codepoints and two non-characters
assumes the input is UTF-8, the first and third bytes are valid UTF-8 encodings of ASCII, but the second byte (0xFC) is not valid in UTF-8. The text editor
Specials_(Unicode_block)
Computer network protocol
Archived from the original on June 10, 2011. Retrieved 8 July 2011. Chris Heilmann (December 8, 2010). "WebSocket disabled in Firefox 4". Hacks.Mozilla
WebSocket
Research distributed operating system
Thompson invented UTF-8, which became the native encoding in Plan 9. The entire system was converted to general use in 1992. UTF-8 preserves backwards
Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs
File extension
default encoding specifically for property resource bundles is UTF-8, and if an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence is encountered it falls back to ISO-8859-1. Editing
.properties
C programming language standard, current revision
c8rtomb() to convert a narrow multibyte character to UTF-8 encoding and a single code point from UTF-8 to a narrow multibyte character representation respectively
C23_(C_standard_revision)
Text string used to uniquely identify a computer file
store the full "title" of a document inside the file itself as arbitrary UTF-8 characters, and then automatically generating a "slug" from that title to
Filename
Esoteric programming language
symbols". utf-8.jp. Archived from the original on 2009-07-15. Retrieved 2017-10-25. Hasegawa, Yosuke (July 2009). "UTF-8.jp [2009-07-28]". utf-8.jp. Archived
JSFuck
Encoding for a sequence of byte values using 64 printable characters
UTF-8 A UTF-8 environment can use non-synchronized continuation bytes as base64: 0b10xxxxxx. See UTF-8#Self-synchronization. 8BITMIME – 8-bit data
Base64
Aspect of the Unicode standard
distinction has some semantic value and affects the rendering of the text. UTF-8 and UTF-16 (and also some other Unicode encodings) do not allow all possible
Unicode_equivalence
Computer programmer and co-creator of Go
Unix Programming Environment. With Ken Thompson, he is the co-creator of UTF-8 character encoding. While at Bell Labs, Pike was also involved in the creation
Rob_Pike
Use of encoding systems for international characters in HTML
current Living Standard published by WHATWG, the only valid encoding is UTF-8. There are two general ways to specify which character encoding is used
Character_encodings_in_HTML
Windows character set for Cyrillic alphabet
Russian websites use it, with 94.6% of Russian (.ru) websites using UTF-8, and the legacy 8-bit encoding is distant second. In Linux, the encoding is known
Windows-1251
Data-interchange format
backslash-escaped. JSON exchange in an open ecosystem must be encoded in UTF-8. The encoding supports the full Unicode character set, including those characters
JSON
Access control method for the HTTP network communication protocol
realm="User Visible Realm", charset="UTF-8" This parameter indicates that the server expects the client to use UTF-8 for encoding username and password
Basic_access_authentication
Parameters defining locale in computer
explicit UTF-8 encoding: $ locale LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="cs_CZ.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="cs_CZ.UTF-8" LC_TIME="cs_CZ.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="cs_CZ.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="cs_CZ
Locale_(computer_software)
Foreign function interface for the Java language
functions, which use UTF-16LE encoding on little-endian architectures and UTF-16BE on big-endian architectures, and then use a UTF-16 to UTF-8 conversion routine
Java_Native_Interface
Identifier of the destination where email messages are delivered
above ASCII characters, international characters above U+007F, encoded as UTF-8, are permitted by RFC 6531 when the EHLO specifies SMTPUTF8, though even
Email_address
QR code format
recognize it and treat it like a contact ready to import. MeCard is based in UTF-8 (which is ASCII compatible); the fields are separated with one semicolon
MeCard_(QR_code)
Format for expressing RDF statements in HTML documents
relationships with other people and things: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML+RDFa 1.0//EN" "http://www.w3
RDFa
Password-based key derivation function
specification was revised to specify that when hashing strings: the string must be UTF-8 encoded the null terminator must be included With this change, the version
Bcrypt
Family of archive file formats
Documented Central Directory Encryption. 6.3.0: (2006) Documented Unicode (UTF-8) filename storage. Expanded list of supported compression algorithms (LZMA
ZIP_(file_format)
Symbols encoded in computers to make text
values). The more modern ASCII system uses the 8-bit byte for each character. Today, the Unicode-based UTF-8 encoding uses a varying number of byte-sized
Character_(computing)
Standard set of characters defined by ISO/IEC 10646
conflicts with other encoding forms. The original edition of the UCS defined UTF-16, an extension of UCS-2, to represent code points outside the BMP. A range
Universal_Coded_Character_Set
Binary serialization format
with UTF-8 string) XML Document - 0x0f (32-bit integer string length with UTF-8 string) Typed Object - 0x10 (16-bit integer name length with UTF-8 name
Action_Message_Format
History of the Python programming language
3.15 will "Make UTF-8 mode default"; This mode is supported in all current Python versions, but it currently must be opted into. UTF-8 is already used
History_of_Python
Windows character set for Latin alphabet
static pages. Almost all websites now use the multi-byte character encoding UTF-8, another superset of ASCII. Some countries or languages show a higher usage
Windows-1252
Diacritical mark
the Wayback Machine Polish Diacritics — How To? Förslag till en enhetlig stavning för älvdalska (March, 2005) w3schools.com — UTF-8 Latin Extended A
Ogonek
Executable Java file format
moniker "UTF-8 string", are not actually encoded according to the Unicode standard, although it is similar. There are two differences (see UTF-8 for a complete
Java_class_file
Protocol for real-time Internet chat and messaging
8859 to UTF-8 on Linux and Unix platforms since about 2002, UTF-8 has become an increasingly popular substitute for many of the previously used 8-bit encodings
IRC
File archiver
length up to 65 535 characters (stored in the UTF-8 format) Optional archive comment (stored in the UTF-8 format) Optional file timestamps preservation:
WinRAR
Bug in Microsoft Windows
as "UTF-8" (before 2018) or "UTF-8 with BOM" (after 2018) rather than "ANSI". This prepends a UTF-8 byte order mark which avoids the bug. UTF-8 without
Bush_hid_the_facts
Latin letter A with circumflex
encoded in UTF-8 and decoded using ISO 8859-1 or Windows-1252, two encodings which are commonly referred to as Western or Western European. In UTF-8, the copyright
Â
Computer file format for a multimedia playlist
of UTF-8 encoding is mandatory in M3U playlists with the M3U8 file extension. The system codepage is usually assumed for .m3u but this is often UTF-8 as
M3U
Process for converting data into a "standard", "normal", or canonical form
standard, in particular UTF-8, may cause an additional need for canonicalization in some situations. Namely, by the standard, in UTF-8 there is only one valid
Canonicalization
E-book format
specification. Unicode is required, and content producers must use either UTF-8 or UTF-16 encoding. This is to support international and multilingual books
EPUB
Software library
historically used UTF-16, and still does only for Java; while for C/C++ UTF-8 is supported, including the correct handling of "illegal UTF-8". ICU 73.2 has
International Components for Unicode
International_Components_for_Unicode
International standard
(meaning UTF-8, the dominant encoding for web pages). ISO-8859-8 is used by less than 0.1% of websites. Different from both DEC Hebrew (8-bit) and ISO-8859-1
ISO/IEC_8859-8
Specification for genealogical data
exporting to GEDCOM format. GEDCOM is defined as a plain text file, using UTF-8 encoding as of version 7.0. This file contains genealogical information
GEDCOM
Relationship between Unicode and email
non-ASCII characters in one of the Unicode transforms negotiating the use of UTF-8 encoding in email addresses and reply codes (SMTPUTF8) sending the information
Unicode_and_email
Software for editing plain text documents
character encoding conventions, such as ASCII, ISO/IEC 2022, Shift JIS, UTF-8, or UTF-16. These conventions define many printable characters, but also non-printing
Text_editor
Cross-platform shell based on .NET technology
open-source. PowerShell 6 changed to UTF-8 as default encoding, with some exceptions. (version 7.4 changes more to UTF-8). According to Microsoft, one of
PowerShell
Markup language and file format
used. Encodings other than UTF-8 and UTF-16 are not necessarily recognized by every XML parser (and in some cases not even UTF-16, even though the standard
XML
Identifier for file formats
might be designated text/html; charset=UTF-8. In this example, text is the type, html is the subtype, and charset=UTF-8 is an optional parameter indicating
Media_type
World Wide Web Consortium recommendation
Language SSML. Here is an example PLS document: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <lexicon version="1.0" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/01/pronunciation-lexicon"
Pronunciation Lexicon Specification
Pronunciation_Lexicon_Specification
Mail sent using electronic means
images. International email, with internationalized email addresses using UTF-8, is standardized but not widely adopted. The term electronic mail has been
Adjacent characters (tokens) merge-based compression algorithm
simply converts the text into UTF-8 first, and treat it as a stream of bytes. This guarantees that any text encoded in UTF-8 can be encoded by the BPE. This
Byte-pair_encoding
Higher-level 7-bit and 8-bit character encoding system
and UTF-16 and UTF-32 (which use wider coding units). Several codes were also registered for subsets (levels 1 and 2) of UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32, as
ISO/IEC_2022
Program that extracts subtitles from video
YouTube only supports UTF-8. The default encoding for subtitle files in FFmpeg is UTF-8. All text in a Matroska™ file is encoded in UTF-8. This means that
SubRip
Letter "E" in Indic scripts
71050 U+1158A 70415 U+1130F UTF-8 240 145 128 143 F0 91 80 8F 240 145 150 138 F0 91 96 8A 240 145 140 143 F0 91 8C 8F UTF-16 55300 56335 D804 DC0F 55301
E_(Indic)
Relationship between Unicode characters and HTML
HTML document. For UTF-8, the BOM is optional, while it is a must for the UTF-16 and the UTF-32 encodings. (Note: UTF-16 and UTF-32 without the BOM are
Unicode_and_HTML
Collection of Japanese standards for digital character encoding
frameshifts of UTF-8-encoded text will produce invalid UTF-8, but it is possible to construct sequences of characters that remain valid UTF-8 even when frameshifted
JIS_encoding
Fifth letter of the Latin alphabet
Cryptographical Mathematics. Central College. Archived from the original on July 8, 2008. Retrieved June 25, 2008. "Frequency of Occurrence of Letters in Spanish"
E
Extracting/adding file and/or directory names into archive in either UTF-7, UTF-8 or UTF-16/UCS-2 encoding to support single file/directory name which contains
Comparison_of_file_archivers
Internet protocol used for relaying e-mails
RFC 3207 (2002) SMTPUTF8 – Allow UTF-8 encoding in mailbox names and header fields, RFC 6531 UTF8SMTP – Allow UTF-8 encoding in mailbox names and header
Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol
Text format for tabular data using a comma between fields
a particular character encoding but should be and is commonly used with UTF-8, particularly because it does not provide a way to indicate the character
Comma-separated_values
Continuous group of 65536 Unicode code points
17 planes is due to UTF-16, which can encode 220 code points (16 planes) as pairs of words, plus the BMP as a single word. UTF-8 was designed with a much
Plane_(Unicode)
Fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets
following the Islamic era AH. The medial form of hāʾ resembles either the number 8 or the wings of a butterfly. The letter hāʾ, especially its isolated form
He_(letter)
Letter "Ha" in Indic scripts
70457 U+11339 UTF-8 240 145 128 179 F0 91 80 B3 240 144 168 177 F0 90 A8 B1 240 145 150 174 F0 91 96 AE 240 145 140 185 F0 91 8C B9 UTF-16 55300 56371
Ha_(Indic)
Set of markup declarations for SGML-family markup language
conforms to XML. This includes XHTML documents: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www
Document_type_definition
User interface element
color on hover: <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
Mouseover
Typesetting system based on TeX
Devanagari, and Chinese, special packages and compilers are needed to support UTF-8 encoding. In the early 1980s, Leslie Lamport was working at SRI, where he
LaTeX
List of humorous technical standards proposals
Morality Sections in Routing Area Drafts," Informational. RFC 4042 – "UTF-9 and UTF-18 Efficient Transformation Formats of Unicode," Informational. Encodes
April Fools' Day Request for Comments
April_Fools'_Day_Request_for_Comments
Text editor forked from Pluma
tabs. It fully supports international text through its use of the Unicode UTF-8 encoding. As a general-purpose text editor, Xed supports most standard editor
Xed
Sixteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets
The sounds of the world's languages. Oxford: Blackwells. ISBN 0-631-19814-8 Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, The Mute Immortals Speak: Pre-Islamic Poetry
Ayin
Computer key to initiate glyph merger
Gentoo wiki". wiki.gentoo.org. Retrieved 2024-04-27. Monniaux, David. "UTF-8 (Unicode) compose sequence". Retrieved 2015-07-15. Compose Key for Windows
Compose_key
Industrial standard for programmable logic controllers
character encoded according to UTF-8 USTRING - Variable-length character string in which each character is encoded according to UTF-8 Only available for the input
IEC_61131-3
Web page in-line data scheme
data:text/vnd-example+xyz;foo=bar;base64,R0lGODdh data:text/plain;charset=UTF-8;page=21,the%20data:1234,5678 (outputs: "the data:1234,5678") data:image/jpeg;base64
Data_URI_scheme
Human-readable data serialization language
some control characters, and may be encoded in any one of UTF-8, UTF-16 or UTF-32. (Though UTF-32 is not mandatory, it is required for a parser to have
YAML
Archived from the original on 2016-08-30. Retrieved 2016-08-29. "Faq - Utf-8, Utf-16, Utf-32 & Bom". "How to : Load XML from File with Encoding Detection".
List_of_file_signatures
Language for transforming XML documents
templates to transform the XML document: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1
XSLT
UTF 8
UTF 8
Boy/Male
Muslim/Islamic
Bounty enjoyment
Girl/Female
Australian, Danish, Finnish, German, Japanese, Romanian, Swedish
Wealth; Poem Child; Fortunate Maid of Battle; Prospers in Battle; Poem
Boy/Male
Norse
Son of Ulf.
Girl/Female
Australian, Danish, Finnish, German, Swedish
Wealth; Fortune; Fortunate Maid of Battle; Prospers in Battle; Poem; Child; Form of Uta
Boy/Male
Australian, Norse
Father of Ulf
Boy/Male
Norse
Son of Ulf.
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Friendliness; Courtesy; Delicate; Grace; Favour from Allah
Boy/Male
Australian
Part
Boy/Male
Anglo, Australian, British, Danish, English, Finnish, German, Norwegian, Swedish
Wolf
Male
Hebrew
(עוּץ) Variant spelling of Hebrew Uwts, UTZ means "soft and sandy earth" or "to consult." Compare with another form of Utz.
Boy/Male
Australian, Finnish
Wealth; Fortune
Boy/Male
Finnish, French, German
Little
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Marathi, Sanskrit
Wish; Desire; Kindness; Enjoyment
Male
Scandinavian
Scandinavian form of Old Norse Ulfr, ULF means "wolf."
Male
German
 Pet form of German Ulrich, UTZ means "prosperity and power." Compare with another form of Utz.
Female
Egyptian
, the granddaughter of Peteharpocrates.
Boy/Male
Australian, Danish, Norse, Norwegian
Son of Ulf
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Bounty; Enjoyment
Female
German
Feminine form of German Udo, UTE means "child."Â
Boy/Male
Norse
Son of Ulf.
UTF 8
UTF 8
Girl/Female
American, Australian, British, Christian, English, French, German, Greek, Irish, Swedish, Swiss
Woman from Magdala; Mighty in Battle; Strong in War; Short Form of Madeline; Battle-mighty; Strong Battle Maiden; Powerful Warrior; Mighty Battle Maiden
Surname or Lastname
English and French
English and French : from the Middle English, Old French personal name Salmon, Saumon, a reduced form of Salomon (see Solomon).Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from the Yiddish male personal name Zalmen, derived via a German form from Hebrew Shelomo (see Solomon).Irish : part translation of Gaelic Ó Bradáin ‘descendant of Bradán’, a personal name, probably from bradach ‘spirited’, but written the same as a word meaning ‘salmon’; this name is also sometimes translated Fisher. The English surname is also present in Ireland (chiefly in counties Leix and Kilkenny).
Boy/Male
Biblical Japanese
My shepherd; my companion; my friend.
Boy/Male
Arabic, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Muslim, Telugu
Water; Descendant; Son; Sword
Girl/Female
Australian, Celtic, Christian, Czech, Czechoslovakian, Danish, French, German, Irish
A Persian Royal Name; Gift; Feminine of Darius
Boy/Male
Latin
The Lord's.
Girl/Female
Australian, Hebrew
The Lord is Good
Boy/Male
Indian, Marathi
Gift of God
Female
French
Pet form of French Jacqueline, JACQUI means "supplanter."
Male
English
English name derived from the vocabulary word, from Latin nobilis, NOBLE means "noble."
UTF 8
UTF 8
UTF 8
UTF 8
UTF 8
n.
A syllable attached to the first tone of the major diatonic scale for the purpose of solmization, or solfeggio. It is the first of the seven syllables used by the Italians as manes of musical tones, and replaced, for the sake of euphony, the syllable Ut, applied to the note C. In England and America the same syllables are used by mane as a scale pattern, while the tones in respect to absolute pitch are named from the first seven letters of the alphabet.
n.
A sharp tool, like an awl, used for picking /ut letters from a column or page in making corrections.
n.
An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling brass, and containing about 84 per cent of copper; -- called also German, / Dutch, brass. It is very malleable and ductile, and when beaten into thin leaves is sometimes called Dutch metal. The addition of arsenic makes white tombac.
n.
A rare metallic element. It occurs quite widely, but in small quantities, and always combined. It is isolated as a soft yellowish white metal, analogous to potassium in most of its properties. Symbol Rb. Atomic weight, 85.2.
n.
The jack. See 2d Jack, 8. (c).
n.
A liliaceous plant (Calochortus Nuttallii) of Western North America, and its edible bulb; -- so called by the Ute Indians and the Mormons.
n.
See Web, n., 8.
v. i.
To sing the notes of the gamut, ascending or descending; as, do or ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, do, or the same in reverse order.
n.
One of the primary planets. It is about 1,800,000,000 miles from the sun, about 36,000 miles in diameter, and its period of revolution round the sun is nearly 84 of our years.
a.
Somewhat resembling the Roman; -- applied sometimes to the debased style of the later Roman empire, but esp. to the more developed architecture prevailing from the 8th century to the 12th.
n.
A silk fabric formerly in use, having a nap or pile.
n.
A kind of package in which pepper and other dry commodities are sometimes exported from the East Indies. The robbin of rice in Malabar weighs about 84 pounds.
n.
Hence, any post or stone marking a boundary; a term. See Term, 8.
n.
The first note in Guido's musical scale, now usually superseded by do. See Solmization.
prep.
As sign of the infinitive, to had originally the use of last defined, governing the infinitive as a verbal noun, and connecting it as indirect object with a preceding verb or adjective; thus, ready to go, i.e., ready unto going; good to eat, i.e., good for eating; I do my utmost to lead my life pleasantly. But it has come to be the almost constant prefix to the infinitive, even in situations where it has no prepositional meaning, as where the infinitive is direct object or subject; thus, I love to learn, i.e., I love learning; to die for one's country is noble, i.e., the dying for one's country. Where the infinitive denotes the design or purpose, good usage formerly allowed the prefixing of for to the to; as, what went ye out for see? (Matt. xi. 8).
n.
A popular Italian dance in quick 3-4 or 6-8 time, running mostly in triplets, but with a hop step at the beginning of each measure. See Tarantella.
n.
A rare metallic element of the boron-aluminium group, found in gadolinite and other rare minerals, and extracted as a dark gray powder. Symbol Y. Atomic weight, 89.
a.
Woven in such a way as to produce an effect of variegation, of changeable tints, or of being figured; as, shot silks. See Shoot, v. t., 8.