braille
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- noun
- /breɪl/
- Specialized
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braille
- The school provides braille books for students who are blind.
- print and Braille
- Braille Code
- Braille readers
They don't read Braille, so this benefits them.
- They don't read Braille, so this benefits them.
- I'll put an image of a Braille note or Braille display up here somewhere.
- So it allows both children and adults to learn Braille as they're building.
- Society accepts that it's discriminatory not to provide documents and keyboards in Braille for people who are blind.
- How long then once you know how to read Braille, does it take you to find Braille?
Examples
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The very act of learning to read Braille may be considered a final admission of blindness.
Academic text (1994) -
It was a book in Braille.
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You ever given any thought to a Braille watch, Frank?
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I'll put an image of a Braille note or Braille display up here somewhere.
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Spell it out in Braille for me.
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Do they make them in Braille?
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What are some of the comments from the recipients of the braille books and materials?
Academic text (2013) -
Why do drive through ATMs have Braille on the numbers?
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The government had to spend 500 pounds on a Braille typewriter.
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I feel like more has been offered with Braille, the Nemeth code, and the abacus than before.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
A writing system that uses raised dots people read by touch
Surface Forms
Etymology
Braille is named after Louis Braille, a French teacher who invented a way to read using small, raised dots that people can feel. So braille means the 'raised-dot' writing system that people who are blind can read by touch.