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braille
  1. A system of writing invented by Louis Braille, in which letters and some combinations of letters are represented by raised dots arranged in three rows of two dots each and are read by the blind and partially sighted using the fingertips.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Louis Braille invented the braille, a tactile alphabet system that revolutionized reading for the visually impaired.”
brailler
  1. (technology) A typewriter used to emboss paper with braille cells to be read by the visually impaired instead of using a manual stylus.
  2. Examples:
    1. “I have a talking computer and a Perkins brailler, but I carry in my purse the slate I was given in school thirty years ago.”
      “Braille was created using a Perkins Brailler on 3-by-5 index cards with the top right corner removed.”
      Brailler is the federal government's point person charged with spurring adoption of health information systems.”
brailling
  1. (colloquial) A form of cheating in the board game Scrabble, where a player drawing tiles from the bag attempts to feel their raised surfaces so as to choose specific letters.
  2. Examples:
    1. “My daughter can even tell if I'm brailling or keyboarding when I hold her hand.”
      “However, we have discovered that many materials required for brailling for educational use predate electronic formats.”
      “Some are fortunate to have access to the latest scanning and brailling technology on site.”
braillewriter
  1. A kind of mechanical typewriter that produces braille output.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Devices listed in this section are small note taking devices that may or may not use a braillewriter keyboard.”
      “An electronic braillewriter is not unlike an electric typewriter, but has many more capabilities.”
      “This braillewriter has six conventional keys, a backspace key on the left side and a center space key.”
braillist
  1. A person who uses the braille writing system.
  2. Examples:
    1. “A dedicated braillist for Helen Keller Services for the Blind for more than 25 years.”
      “As a braillist – someone who uses braille – the dream for me is when the opposite happens.”
      “The authors chose to use the term transcriber to refer to individuals who selected either braillist or transcriber as their job role in the original survey.”
braillewriters
  1. plural of braillewriter
  2. Examples:
    1. “We also loan equipment, like braillewriters and tape recorders, to help students learn alternate communication skills.”
      “Students will also learn to write literary braille, using a slate and stylus, as well as computerized braillewriters.”
      “Lions provide thousands of people every year with free quality eye care, glasses, braillewriters, large print texts, white canes and guide dogs.”
braillers
  1. plural of brailler
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