Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word CURSIVE

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Definitions of CURSIVE

1. Running; flowing.
2. (of writing) Having successive letters joined together.
3. (grammar) Of or relating to a grammatical aspect relating to an action that occurs in a straight line (in space or time).
4. (countable) A cursive character, letter or font.
5. (countable) A manuscript written in cursive characters.
6. (uncountable) Joined-up handwriting.

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Examples of Using CURSIVE in a Sentence

• It is written from right-to-left in a cursive style, and includes 28 letters, of which most have contextual letterforms.
• In Middle Scots, the character yogh became confused with a cursive z and the early Scots printers often used z when yogh was not available in their fonts.
• The ampersand can be traced back to the 1st century AD and the old Roman cursive, in which the letters E and T occasionally were written together to form a ligature (Evolution of the ampersand – figure 1).
• Hieratic developed as a cursive form of hieroglyphic script in the Naqada III period of Ancient Egypt, roughly 3200–3000 BCE.
• It resembles a lowercase omega with a macron, though historically it is simply a cursive form of pi, with its legs bent inward to meet.
• The Nationals adopted similar colors to 1968–1971 Senators adding gold accents to a tilted version of the expansion Senators cursive "W" logo.
• Some simplifications were based on popular cursive forms that embody graphic or phonetic simplifications of the traditional forms.
• The serif "TIGERS" wordmark was removed and replaced by cursive lettering that can also display graphics and video.
• The gospels other than John are "written for the most part in a rapid cursive script", while John is "by a different scribe, in neat minuscule bookhand".
• Dzongkha is usually written in Bhutanese forms of the Uchen script, forms of the Tibetan script known as Jôyi "cursive longhand" and Jôtshum "formal longhand".
• When seen from the air, the walkway inside the park (Hanging Gardens Path), spell out the letters PMG (Pherozeshah Mehta Gardens) in cursive.
• August 1961 - TBS unveils the cursive logo, after the renaming of Tokyo Broadcasting System from KRT.
• The Diwani script is a cursive and distinctively Ottoman style of Arabic calligraphy developed in the 16th and early 17th centuries.
• By the 9th century, Byzantine scribes had begun to employ the lowercase form, which they derived from the cursive styles of the uppercase letters.
• - þ; derived either from Greek phi (Φ) /f/ or psi (Ψ) /ps/ with phonetic reassignment, Runic , or a cursive form of Ⲑ from the 4th century.
• He expands upon this theme more explicitly in An Appendix, a pederastic and spiritualist manifesto duplicated from a cursive manuscript.
• Gregg shorthand, invented by John Robert Gregg in 1888, is a form of shorthand that, like cursive longhand, primarily uses elliptical figures and lines that bisect them.
• Japanese is written with a combination of three scripts: hiragana, derived from the Chinese cursive script, katakana, derived as a shorthand from Chinese characters, and kanji, imported from China.

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