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ornamental brasses , palimpsest •abreast, arrest, attest, beau geste, behest, bequest, best, blessed, blest, breast, Brest, Bucharest, Budapest, celeste, chest, contest,… DRDW Abbrev. for direct read during write. , DRDW Abbrev. for direct read during write. In optical data storage, a writing technique in which each signal element is check-read as it is written,… overwrite , o·ver·write / ˌōvərˈrīt/ • v. (past -wrote; past part. -writ·ten) [tr.] 1. write on top of (other writing): many names had been scratched out or over… Cuneiform , cuneiform (kyōōnē´Ĭfôrm) [Lat.,=wedge-shaped], system of writing developed before the last centuries of the 4th millennium BC in the lower Tigris and… grapheme , graph·eme / ˈgrafēm/ • n. Linguistics the smallest meaningful contrastive unit in a writing system. Compare with phoneme. DERIVATIVES: gra·phe·mic /… Inscription , inscription,writing on durable material. The art is called epigraphy. Modern inscriptions are made for permanent, monumental record, as on gravestone…
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