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Definition of cuneiform in English: cuneiformadjective ˈkjuːnɪfɔːmkjuːˈneɪɪfɔːm 1Denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly on clay tablets. Example sentencesExamples - He is illiterate, but a collection of ancient cuneiform inscriptions near his home assume great significance for him, and from them he constructs his own symbols and written language.
- From beneath mounds of sand and debris, Babylon and Nineveh were exposed to view together with whole libraries of clay cuneiform tablets.
- In Nippur, for example, which was one of the most important sites in ancient Mesopotamia, many cuneiform tablets - including a copy of the Gilgamesh epic - are missing.
- The beginnings have been found in palace archives - hoards of clay tablets inscribed in cuneiform - in Mesopotamia.
- Digital representations of the tablets bearing the cuneiform writing of ancient Mesopotamia have started appearing on the Internet.
- The Sumerians are credited with inventing the cuneiform system of writing, which was originally pictographic but gradually became stylized.
- The later Babylonians adopted the same style of cuneiform writing on clay tablets.
- Gilgamesh is a collection of poems engraved in cuneiform script on clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia (today's Middle East).
- To prevent people from stealing their precious glass secrets, the instructions were written in cuneiform upon clay tablets.
- The Babylonians wrote on tablets of unbaked clay, using cuneiform writing.
- In 1844, he scaled the almost sheer cliffs of Bisitun, in Persia, copying relief sculptures and their accompanying cuneiform inscriptions in Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian.
- People in different civilisations have invented different writing systems: for example, scripts in Egypt, the cuneiform images in Mesopotamia, and Chinese characters in China.
- In 1843 he was appointed British consul in Baghdad and this allowed extra time for his studies, especially work on cuneiform tablets found at Assyrian cities such as Nimrud and Nineveh.
- The exhibition provides a history of writing: pictogram, hieroglyph, cuneiform, alphabet, all of these are represented.
- They were Sumerian and Akkadian words inscribed in parallel columns on clay tablets in cuneiform writing and were organized thematically.
- Over 4000 years ago the Sumerian merchants of Babylon and Nineveh recorded bills, receipts and promissory notes in cuneiform script on clay tablets.
- Yet, one still would have to show that this Egyptian creation was transferred to Mesopotamia, and that the Sumerian proto-cuneiform and cuneiform writing derived from Egypt.
- Among them is a single display of Babylonian cuneiform tablets that accounts for nine missing items.
- Based on the above, he was able to conclude that the immediate precursor of cuneiform writing was a system of tokens.
- While we were waiting for these to air dry, I used the time to have the students research the uses of clay slabs in cuneiform writing and pictographic writing.
2Anatomy
Denoting three bones of the tarsus (ankle) between the navicular bone and the metatarsals. Example sentencesExamples - First, there was a broken cuneiform bone in his left foot.
- Wounds on the foot consisted of exposed long extensor tendons and medial cuneiform and navicular bones and first metatarsal bone was exposed along its length up to the first metatarsal phalangeal joint.
- The peroneus longus muscle also inserts onto the inferior surface of the first cuneiform bone.
3Biology
Wedge-shaped. Example sentencesExamples - The paired, club-shaped, elastic cuneiform cartilages are anterior to the corniculate cartilages.
- Elastic cartilage is found in the external ear, auditory tube, epiglottis, and corniculate and cuneiform cartilages of the larynx.
noun ˈkjuːnɪfɔːmkjuːˈneɪɪfɔːm mass nounCuneiform writing. a Mesopotamian script pre-dating cuneiform Example sentencesExamples - Although the idea may have come from Mesopotamia, the script was independent of the cuneiform.
- ‘No ice,’ concluded a lengthy report written by a bloke in, for no discernible reason, Ancient Hittite cuneiform.
- Their basic economic organization and system of writing cuneiform, architectural forms, and legal practices remained in use.
- Features described by the ancients - mountain passes, hill flanks, and the great plain - stood suddenly revealed before us, all in their proper places, as the Mesopotamian geography yielded its secrets like a dusty cuneiform.
- An extinct script, such as Egyptian hieroglyphs, Babylonian cuneiform or the glyphs of the ancient Maya of Central America, may strike us as little short of miraculous and bizarrely different from our own alphabetic scripts.
Origin Late 17th century: from French cunéiforme or modern Latin cuneiformis, from Latin cuneus 'wedge'. Definition of cuneiform in US English: cuneiformadjective 1Denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets. Example sentencesExamples - The later Babylonians adopted the same style of cuneiform writing on clay tablets.
- The beginnings have been found in palace archives - hoards of clay tablets inscribed in cuneiform - in Mesopotamia.
- Over 4000 years ago the Sumerian merchants of Babylon and Nineveh recorded bills, receipts and promissory notes in cuneiform script on clay tablets.
- The exhibition provides a history of writing: pictogram, hieroglyph, cuneiform, alphabet, all of these are represented.
- They were Sumerian and Akkadian words inscribed in parallel columns on clay tablets in cuneiform writing and were organized thematically.
- Among them is a single display of Babylonian cuneiform tablets that accounts for nine missing items.
- In 1843 he was appointed British consul in Baghdad and this allowed extra time for his studies, especially work on cuneiform tablets found at Assyrian cities such as Nimrud and Nineveh.
- Gilgamesh is a collection of poems engraved in cuneiform script on clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia (today's Middle East).
- To prevent people from stealing their precious glass secrets, the instructions were written in cuneiform upon clay tablets.
- From beneath mounds of sand and debris, Babylon and Nineveh were exposed to view together with whole libraries of clay cuneiform tablets.
- Digital representations of the tablets bearing the cuneiform writing of ancient Mesopotamia have started appearing on the Internet.
- Yet, one still would have to show that this Egyptian creation was transferred to Mesopotamia, and that the Sumerian proto-cuneiform and cuneiform writing derived from Egypt.
- People in different civilisations have invented different writing systems: for example, scripts in Egypt, the cuneiform images in Mesopotamia, and Chinese characters in China.
- Based on the above, he was able to conclude that the immediate precursor of cuneiform writing was a system of tokens.
- The Sumerians are credited with inventing the cuneiform system of writing, which was originally pictographic but gradually became stylized.
- He is illiterate, but a collection of ancient cuneiform inscriptions near his home assume great significance for him, and from them he constructs his own symbols and written language.
- In Nippur, for example, which was one of the most important sites in ancient Mesopotamia, many cuneiform tablets - including a copy of the Gilgamesh epic - are missing.
- In 1844, he scaled the almost sheer cliffs of Bisitun, in Persia, copying relief sculptures and their accompanying cuneiform inscriptions in Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian.
- While we were waiting for these to air dry, I used the time to have the students research the uses of clay slabs in cuneiform writing and pictographic writing.
- The Babylonians wrote on tablets of unbaked clay, using cuneiform writing.
- 1.1Anatomy Denoting three bones of the tarsus (ankle) between the navicular bone and the metatarsals.
Example sentencesExamples - Wounds on the foot consisted of exposed long extensor tendons and medial cuneiform and navicular bones and first metatarsal bone was exposed along its length up to the first metatarsal phalangeal joint.
- The peroneus longus muscle also inserts onto the inferior surface of the first cuneiform bone.
- First, there was a broken cuneiform bone in his left foot.
- 1.2Biology Wedge-shaped.
Example sentencesExamples - Elastic cartilage is found in the external ear, auditory tube, epiglottis, and corniculate and cuneiform cartilages of the larynx.
- The paired, club-shaped, elastic cuneiform cartilages are anterior to the corniculate cartilages.
noun Cuneiform writing. Example sentencesExamples - Their basic economic organization and system of writing cuneiform, architectural forms, and legal practices remained in use.
- An extinct script, such as Egyptian hieroglyphs, Babylonian cuneiform or the glyphs of the ancient Maya of Central America, may strike us as little short of miraculous and bizarrely different from our own alphabetic scripts.
- Although the idea may have come from Mesopotamia, the script was independent of the cuneiform.
- Features described by the ancients - mountain passes, hill flanks, and the great plain - stood suddenly revealed before us, all in their proper places, as the Mesopotamian geography yielded its secrets like a dusty cuneiform.
- ‘No ice,’ concluded a lengthy report written by a bloke in, for no discernible reason, Ancient Hittite cuneiform.
Origin Late 17th century: from French cunéiforme or modern Latin cuneiformis, from Latin cuneus ‘wedge’. |