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Text written by hand, or the act of writing by hand
The use of symbols or images to communicate ideas
A system of words, letters, figures, or symbols used to represent others, especially for the purposes of secrecy
A symbol or word used to represent an operation, instruction, concept, or object
Script, signs, or alphabet used to represent information or data
Plural for a symbol or code, typically used in ancient writing
“Geology now rediscovers them, like an almost illegible hieroglyphic on the leaf of a historic record.”
(figurative) Plural for scrawled or incomprehensible symbols or writing
“Every story I submitted to Dr. Shedd was turned back with denigrating comments scrawled in an illegible hieroglyphic that would have been intelligible only to a medieval alchemist.”
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