stenography
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- noun
- /stəˈnɑɡrəfi/
- Specialized
:
estenoografía
- Although the interviewer was fluent in American Sign Language (ASL), the CART stenography was necessary to compensate for the low level of sign-language skill of the respondents.
Examples
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After completing the course, he felt confident in his ability to use stenography for interviews.
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I just want your stenography services.
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I studied stenography at night school.
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As it is now, he or she has nothing to lose but his or her time and some filing and stenography fees.
Blog text (11) -
However, her father insisted that she enter a commercial high school where she could study typing and stenography for a year and then go to work.
Academic text (2002) -
Five respondents were interviewed in person with the help of computer-assisted real-time translation (CART) stenography.
Academic text (2001) -
While boys took industrial education, girls took home economics; while boys outnumbered girls in math and physics classes, girls outnumbered boys in typing and stenography courses.
Academic text (1995) -
In her job as a court reporter, she uses stenography to capture everything said during trials.
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Many people learn stenography to improve their typing speed and take accurate notes.
Synonyms
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A fast way of writing using symbols or short forms to record speech
A fast way of writing spoken words using special signs
A fast way to write notes using short symbols
Surface Forms
Morphology
stenography = steno + graphy
Although the word is built from classical combining forms meaning roughly 'narrow' and 'writing', most learners cannot reliably infer the specialized meaning 'shorthand'.
Etymology
The word stenography comes from Greek parts steno- meaning 'narrow' and -graphy meaning 'to write' or 'record', so it literally means 'narrow writing'. The -graphy part is the same as in photography and autograph, and that 'narrow' idea helps you remember that stenography is a short, fast way of writing to record speech quickly.