transcription, транскрипция: [ letə(r) ]
( letters, lettering, lettered)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
If you write a letter to someone, you write a message on paper and send it to them, usually by post.
I had received a letter from a very close friend.
...a letter of resignation...
Our long courtship had been conducted mostly by letter.
N-COUNT : also by N
2.
Letters are written symbols which represent one of the sounds in a language.
...the letters of the alphabet.
...the letter E.
N-COUNT
3.
If a student earns a letter in sports or athletics by being part of the university or college team, they are entitled to wear on their jacket the initial letter of the name of their university or college. ( AM )
Valerie earned letters in three sports: volleyball, basketball, and field hockey.
N-COUNT
4.
If a student letters in sports or athletics by being part of the university or college team, they are entitled to wear on their jacket the initial letter of the name of their university or college. ( AM )
Burkoth lettered in soccer.
VERB : V prep
5.
see also capital letter , covering letter , dead letter , love letter , newsletter , poison-pen letter
6.
If you say that someone carries out instructions to the letter , you mean that they do exactly what they are told to do, paying great attention to every detail.
She obeyed his instructions to the letter.
PHRASE : PHR after v