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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: literal (0.01066 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to literal.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: literal harfiah
English → English (WordNet) Definition: literal literal adj 1: being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something; “her actual motive”; “a literal solitude like a desert”- G.K.Chesterton; “a genuine dilemma” [syn: actual, genuine, real] 2: without interpretation or embellishment; “a literal translation of the scene before him” 3: limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text; “a literal translation” [ant: figurative] 4: lacking stylistic embellishment; “a literal description”; “wrote good but plain prose”; “a plain unadorned account of the coronation”; “a forthright unembellished style” [syn: plain, unembellished] 5: of the clearest kind; usually used for emphasis; “it's the literal truth”; “a matter of investment, pure and simple” [syn: pure and simple] 6: (of a translation) corresponding word for word with the original; “literal translation of the article”; “an awkward word-for-word translation” [syn: word-for-word] literal n : a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind [syn: misprint, erratum, typographical error , typo, literal error]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Literal Literal \Lit"er*al\, n. Literal meaning. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster] Literal \Lit"er*al\ (l[i^]t"[~e]r*al), a. [F. lit['e]ral, litt['e]ral, L. litteralis, literalis, fr. littera, litera, a letter. See Letter.] 1. According to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical; as, the literal meaning of a phrase. [1913 Webster] It hath but one simple literal sense whose light the owls can not abide. --Tyndale. [1913 Webster] 2. Following the letter or exact words; not free. [1913 Webster] A middle course between the rigor of literal translations and the liberty of paraphrasts. --Hooker. [1913 Webster] 3. Consisting of, or expressed by, letters. [1913 Webster] The literal notation of numbers was known to Europeans before the ciphers. --Johnson. [1913 Webster] 4. Giving a strict or literal construction; unimaginative; matter-of-fact; -- applied to persons. [1913 Webster] Literal contract (Law), a contract of which the whole evidence is given in writing. --Bouvier. Literal equation (Math.), an equation in which known quantities are expressed either wholly or in part by means of letters; -- distinguished from a numerical equation. [1913 Webster]

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