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单词 cursive
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Definition of cursive in English:

cursive

adjective ˈkəːsɪvˈkərsɪv
  • Written with the characters joined.

    cursive script
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The first notes were just that: pieces of paper printed on one side with lettering in cursive style in inky black and white.
    • In response, he developed a modified version of the Arabic alphabet in which each letter has a single form and in which letters can be written separately rather than linked together in the usual cursive style.
    • Finding a thick notebook, she began writing in cursive loops of the events significant in their lives.
    • It was a small white envelope, his address written with golden cursive penmanship.
    • Grandma fills her letters with the mundane day-to-day activities of a woman approaching eighty along with all the gossip of the small rural district she lives in, all written in this fantastic cursive script.
    • By the 10th century, there were said to be at least twenty different cursive styles of script that had proliferated over the years, largely used for personal correspondence or to meet the needs of the bureaucrats and merchants.
    • Arsham's piece was a small gray model of a parking garage complete with tiny streetlights; seen from overhead, the structure formed the word ‘regret’ written in cursive script.
    • The letter is also written in print, not in cursive script, perhaps to ensure legibility in a cramped space.
    • Hiragana are used in writing verb endings, adverbs, conjunctions, and various sentence particles and are written in a cursive, smooth style.
    • A rarity is the bowl in the shape of an abalone shell shown in Plates V and Va, which has a classical Japanese poem written in cursive script on the edge of the bowl while the figural scene illustrates the poem.
    • The cursive style and the swooshing top curve gave our logo a modern and active look.
    • Then I fell to my knees and wrote I love Zach neatly in my slanted cursive script across the pavement.
    • What I write down during a meeting as cursive script is translated into typed text as I write, and appears in my mail folders when I get back to my office desk.
    • Unlike the more cursive style of contemporary scribes, this hand is akin to a conventional liturgical script.
    • A single note on pristine white paper and written in a highly cursive hand lay on the pillow.
    • It is written in a flowing cursive script in alphabet that has never been seen elsewhere.
    • She starred at the sign of an old neon tent with the words neatly written in cursive strands of Neon tubes.
    • By the 13th century England had reinvented cursive script for documents (cursiva anglicana), joined in the early 14th century by French ‘secretary’.
    • Hiragana is a cursive script used for writing grammatical elements and some native words, and is the main medium for young children's books.
    • The Su Tongpo poetry of the Kusoshi is printed in clear, blockish characters, while the waka verses appear in a mixture of cursive characters and kana syllables.
noun ˈkəːsɪvˈkərsɪv
mass noun
  • Cursive writing.

    this style of writing began to compete with Gothic cursive
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It had ‘Meredith’ in cursive on the front of it, and it wasn't sealed.
    • You've probably noticed that the word ‘attack’ is spelled in a festive, alternative fashion, and the phrase ‘Apple Head’ is in cursive.
    • She would lean over shoulders in supermarkets, bend over wrinkled, hunched backs and peer underneath registers to look at traces of sentences being scribbled in cursive.
    • Uncial continued to be used for high-grade books, especially in Italy and Gaul, but throughout much of the West minuscules emerged influenced by Roman cursive, with attendant problems of lack of consistency and legibility.
    • She had on an oversize hooded red sweatshirt with Falcon baseball across the front in white cursive, which matched the white shorts she was wearing and tie-dyed red and white knee socks.
    • ‘So I've heard,’ came the reply, dryly, as the brunette began to carefully copy his name in childish cursive.
    • Around pink and yellow blossoms against a pearlescent greenish-blue sky, the word ‘lie’ recurs, in gloppy white cursive in a jumbled web with a central, sooty smudge.
    • Now that she had jot down in her hard cover dark green diary with her name in cursive on the inside cover, Connie then decided to call it a night and accumulate the last five and a half hours of sleep under her fluffy flannel red and black linens.
    • Striding up to the front of the room he scrawled a message in neat cursive across the white board, ‘Stayed for 30, had to go.’
    • While I can not claim that italic cursive is the easiest thing to learn, it does look very nice.
    • The handwriting was perfect cursive, every letter formed with care.
    • Kris was hiding behind her hair the best she could but was wearing a pair of ripped jeans, a white tee with the words Coca-Cola written across the chest in red cursive, her black hoodie with the large heart-a-gram on the back and her Chucks.
    • He slides his thumb under the sealed envelope, pulls out the notebook piece of paper, and begins to read the loopy, girly cursive.
    • In perfect, flawless, sharp cursive, it read, ‘what are you talking about?’
    • As Zach flipped to the last page, he was startled to see a note to Mr. Warren written in the neatest cursive Zach had ever seen.
    • in many other classrooms, traditional cursive is on its way out.
    • On it, in writing that varied from an insane, calligraphy-like version of printing to a sharp, illegible cursive, were all the pros and cons of sneaking Amadeo food.
    • Sitting down at my desk, I took out my diary and set it out, flipping through the pages and seeing my own flowing cursive, seeing the curses, seeing the dreams, and I could see everything just flowing by like time could be tracked.
    • I really never figured out why we had to learn it, the only people I see who use cursive, I can't read their handwriting anyway.
    • New cursive is the form that Roman minuscule assumed in about the fourth - fifth century in the documentary, administrative, and common writings of the empire, and it became the most widespread and free style of late ancient Latin writing.

Derivatives

  • cursively

  • adverb
    • Is it possible to determine if 2 clusters are cursively connected?
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I discovered at an early age that it was easier to write backwards cursively than it was to write forwards.
      • The cursive connection feature type is used for cursively connected scripts to specify whether or not cursive connections are to be used between glyphs.
      • Although the present method has been developed for the recognition of Arabic scripts, it can be applied equally well for recognizing many other singly and cursively written scripts.
      • I learned to type before I learned to write cursively and I loathe paper.
      • To this day I can not write cursively and the feel of a fountain pen makes me want to twist the nib through the paper.
      • Sure enough, it was a love heart, with my name scribbled cursively at the top, underlined a few times.
      • It is a system for scanning and segmenting cursively handwritten words into basic strokes.
      • I doubt that there is any ‘official’ way to write cursively, it just depends upon how you were taught and how you developed your own style as you got older.
      • When characters are cursively written, writing motion becomes faster and does not involve any substantial visual feedback to the writer.

Origin

Late 18th century: from medieval Latin cursivus, from Latin curs- 'run', from the verb currere.

Rhymes

coercive, excursive, subversive
 
 

Definition of cursive in US English:

cursive

adjectiveˈkərsivˈkərsɪv
  • Written with the characters joined.

    cursive script
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Arsham's piece was a small gray model of a parking garage complete with tiny streetlights; seen from overhead, the structure formed the word ‘regret’ written in cursive script.
    • What I write down during a meeting as cursive script is translated into typed text as I write, and appears in my mail folders when I get back to my office desk.
    • In response, he developed a modified version of the Arabic alphabet in which each letter has a single form and in which letters can be written separately rather than linked together in the usual cursive style.
    • The Su Tongpo poetry of the Kusoshi is printed in clear, blockish characters, while the waka verses appear in a mixture of cursive characters and kana syllables.
    • A single note on pristine white paper and written in a highly cursive hand lay on the pillow.
    • Hiragana is a cursive script used for writing grammatical elements and some native words, and is the main medium for young children's books.
    • By the 10th century, there were said to be at least twenty different cursive styles of script that had proliferated over the years, largely used for personal correspondence or to meet the needs of the bureaucrats and merchants.
    • By the 13th century England had reinvented cursive script for documents (cursiva anglicana), joined in the early 14th century by French ‘secretary’.
    • The first notes were just that: pieces of paper printed on one side with lettering in cursive style in inky black and white.
    • Grandma fills her letters with the mundane day-to-day activities of a woman approaching eighty along with all the gossip of the small rural district she lives in, all written in this fantastic cursive script.
    • She starred at the sign of an old neon tent with the words neatly written in cursive strands of Neon tubes.
    • Then I fell to my knees and wrote I love Zach neatly in my slanted cursive script across the pavement.
    • Unlike the more cursive style of contemporary scribes, this hand is akin to a conventional liturgical script.
    • The cursive style and the swooshing top curve gave our logo a modern and active look.
    • Finding a thick notebook, she began writing in cursive loops of the events significant in their lives.
    • It was a small white envelope, his address written with golden cursive penmanship.
    • The letter is also written in print, not in cursive script, perhaps to ensure legibility in a cramped space.
    • A rarity is the bowl in the shape of an abalone shell shown in Plates V and Va, which has a classical Japanese poem written in cursive script on the edge of the bowl while the figural scene illustrates the poem.
    • Hiragana are used in writing verb endings, adverbs, conjunctions, and various sentence particles and are written in a cursive, smooth style.
    • It is written in a flowing cursive script in alphabet that has never been seen elsewhere.
nounˈkərsivˈkərsɪv
  • Cursive writing.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • While I can not claim that italic cursive is the easiest thing to learn, it does look very nice.
    • As Zach flipped to the last page, he was startled to see a note to Mr. Warren written in the neatest cursive Zach had ever seen.
    • You've probably noticed that the word ‘attack’ is spelled in a festive, alternative fashion, and the phrase ‘Apple Head’ is in cursive.
    • She had on an oversize hooded red sweatshirt with Falcon baseball across the front in white cursive, which matched the white shorts she was wearing and tie-dyed red and white knee socks.
    • ‘So I've heard,’ came the reply, dryly, as the brunette began to carefully copy his name in childish cursive.
    • The handwriting was perfect cursive, every letter formed with care.
    • Around pink and yellow blossoms against a pearlescent greenish-blue sky, the word ‘lie’ recurs, in gloppy white cursive in a jumbled web with a central, sooty smudge.
    • I really never figured out why we had to learn it, the only people I see who use cursive, I can't read their handwriting anyway.
    • He slides his thumb under the sealed envelope, pulls out the notebook piece of paper, and begins to read the loopy, girly cursive.
    • It had ‘Meredith’ in cursive on the front of it, and it wasn't sealed.
    • Kris was hiding behind her hair the best she could but was wearing a pair of ripped jeans, a white tee with the words Coca-Cola written across the chest in red cursive, her black hoodie with the large heart-a-gram on the back and her Chucks.
    • Striding up to the front of the room he scrawled a message in neat cursive across the white board, ‘Stayed for 30, had to go.’
    • Now that she had jot down in her hard cover dark green diary with her name in cursive on the inside cover, Connie then decided to call it a night and accumulate the last five and a half hours of sleep under her fluffy flannel red and black linens.
    • Sitting down at my desk, I took out my diary and set it out, flipping through the pages and seeing my own flowing cursive, seeing the curses, seeing the dreams, and I could see everything just flowing by like time could be tracked.
    • Uncial continued to be used for high-grade books, especially in Italy and Gaul, but throughout much of the West minuscules emerged influenced by Roman cursive, with attendant problems of lack of consistency and legibility.
    • She would lean over shoulders in supermarkets, bend over wrinkled, hunched backs and peer underneath registers to look at traces of sentences being scribbled in cursive.
    • In perfect, flawless, sharp cursive, it read, ‘what are you talking about?’
    • On it, in writing that varied from an insane, calligraphy-like version of printing to a sharp, illegible cursive, were all the pros and cons of sneaking Amadeo food.
    • New cursive is the form that Roman minuscule assumed in about the fourth - fifth century in the documentary, administrative, and common writings of the empire, and it became the most widespread and free style of late ancient Latin writing.
    • in many other classrooms, traditional cursive is on its way out.

Origin

Late 18th century: from medieval Latin cursivus, from Latin curs- ‘run’, from the verb currere.

 
 
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