Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To write or represent by stenography.
- noun A character used in stenography; a writing, especially any note or memorandum, in shorthand.
- noun A stenographic machine; a form of typewriter in which signs and marks of various kinds—dots, dashes, etc.—are used in place of ordinary letters.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To write or report in stenographic characters.
- noun A production of stenography; anything written in shorthand.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A production of
stenography ; anything written inshorthand . - noun A shorthand
character - verb To write or report in stenographic characters.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb write in shorthand
- noun a shorthand character
- noun a machine for typewriting shorthand characters
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Examples
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Before many weeks Edward could "stenograph" fairly well, and as the typewriter had not then come into its own, he was ready to put his knowledge to practical use.
A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After Edward William Bok 1896
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The programme relished all the things wrong with Qwerty, and the many alternatives: some have blank keys for you to customise; others are for typing while you dive; and then there's the diverting-sounding Orbit keyboard, described by one expert as "like a stenograph machine but powered by knobs".
Radio review: Fry's English Delight: The Trial Of Qwerty 2010
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(Bailiff (Chico) brings in Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (Groucho), as the Court Reporter (Harpo) types on stenograph, rips paper out and eats it; cue music)
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Court reporters typically record words in a unique shorthand language using a machine called a stenograph.
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Most court reporters must buy their own equipment, including stenograph machines, which can cost $5,000 or more, laptop computers and transcription technology.
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Thus, as can readily be seen on a daily basis, both in the corporatist stenograph called the mass media and inside the halls of governance – for those willing to open their eyes and see, for those that have escaped the slavery of thought – is the perpetual attempt to make extinct all traces of inconvenient truths that might upset the long-standing balance that maintains the few in mastery over the many.
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Mass media has become, in the course of a few decades, a tool of dumbed-down distraction, suppression of truth, creator of ignorance, disseminator of disinformation and a stenograph for the corporatist elements that rule America.
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Thus, as can readily be seen on a daily basis, both in the corporatist stenograph called the mass media and inside the halls of governance – for those willing to open their eyes and see, for those that have escaped the slavery of thought – is the perpetual attempt to make extinct all traces of inconvenient truths that might upset the long-standing balance that maintains the few in mastery over the many.
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TCO, I bet the senate has a stenograph department which has literal transcriptions of their sessions, I know the parliament in Holland has this service.
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I cannot repeat what he said; I was too much engrossed to take my note-book out, and begin to stenograph his story.
How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004
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