"nonletter" meaning in All languages combined

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    {
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        "2": "non-",
        "3": "letter"
      },
      "expansion": "non- + letter",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From non- + letter.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nonletters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "nonletter (plural nonletters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1973 June 2, Iver Peterson, “Campus Notes Grant Made for Study‐Incentive Plan”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "Manhattanville College in Purchase, N. Y., has joined a small but growing [movement] back to the practice of awarding letter grades after a year's experiment with a nonletter system that was seen as a way of reducing the competitiveness and authoritarian quality of [letter] grading.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1982 April 11, Timothy McDarrah, “THE LETTER-GRADE CONTROVERSY”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "The grading policy now specifies that all students enrolled before the spring 1982 semester in classes of less than 40 students will receive written evaluations, with either a nonletter grade (honors, pass or no credit) or a letter grade on their transcripts. Under the old system, the no-credit notation did not appear on the transcript.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 May 29, Jeanna Smialek, “Forget Swooshes and V’s. The Economy’s Future Is a Question Mark.”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "While economists generally say that a W remains entirely possible, they aren’t willing to make it their most-likely forecast because it hinges on two total unknowns: whether there is another spike in infections, and whether states will shut down again if that happens. Analysts who venture a guess increasingly favor a nonletter shape as their base-case: the checkmark.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "That which is not a letter (alphabetic symbol)."
      ],
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        [
          "letter",
          "letter"
        ]
      ]
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "37 63",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "16 84",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
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          "_dis": "10 90",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "That which is not a letter (written message to be delivered)."
      ],
      "id": "en-nonletter-en-noun-e7IFvJ6A"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nonletter"
}

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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms prefixed with non-",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
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      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From non- + letter.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nonletters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "nonletter (plural nonletters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "categories": [
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1973 June 2, Iver Peterson, “Campus Notes Grant Made for Study‐Incentive Plan”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "Manhattanville College in Purchase, N. Y., has joined a small but growing [movement] back to the practice of awarding letter grades after a year's experiment with a nonletter system that was seen as a way of reducing the competitiveness and authoritarian quality of [letter] grading.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1982 April 11, Timothy McDarrah, “THE LETTER-GRADE CONTROVERSY”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "The grading policy now specifies that all students enrolled before the spring 1982 semester in classes of less than 40 students will receive written evaluations, with either a nonletter grade (honors, pass or no credit) or a letter grade on their transcripts. Under the old system, the no-credit notation did not appear on the transcript.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 May 29, Jeanna Smialek, “Forget Swooshes and V’s. The Economy’s Future Is a Question Mark.”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "While economists generally say that a W remains entirely possible, they aren’t willing to make it their most-likely forecast because it hinges on two total unknowns: whether there is another spike in infections, and whether states will shut down again if that happens. Analysts who venture a guess increasingly favor a nonletter shape as their base-case: the checkmark.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "That which is not a letter (alphabetic symbol)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "letter",
          "letter"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "That which is not a letter (written message to be delivered)."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "nonletter"
}