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Meaning of "boustrophedonic" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BOUSTROPHEDONIC

boustrophedonic  [buːˌstrɒfɪˈdɒnɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BOUSTROPHEDONIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Boustrophedonic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES BOUSTROPHEDONIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

boustrophedonic

Boustrophedon

Boustrophedon is a kind of bi-directional text, mostly seen in ancient manuscripts and other inscriptions. Every other line of writing is flipped or reversed, with reversed letters. Rather than going left-to-right as in modern English, or right-to-left as in Arabic and Hebrew, alternate lines in boustrophedon must be read in opposite directions. Also, the individual characters are reversed, or mirrored. The name "boustrophedon" is taken from the Greek language. Its etymology is from βούς, bous, "ox" + στρέφειν, strephein, "to turn", because the hand of the writer goes back and forth like an ox drawing a plough across a field and turning at the end of each row to return in the opposite direction. It was a common way of writing in stone in Ancient Greece.

Definition of boustrophedonic in the English dictionary

The definition of boustrophedonic in the dictionary is of or relating to lines written in opposite directions.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BOUSTROPHEDONIC


anhedonic
ˌænhɪˈdɒnɪk
arachidonic
ˌærəkɪˈdɒnɪk
bionic
baɪˈɒnɪk
chalcedonic
ˌkælsɪˈdɒnɪk
chronic
ˈkrɒnɪk
electronic
ɪlɛkˈtrɒnɪk
harmonic
hɑːˈmɒnɪk
hedonic
hiːˈdɒnɪk
hydroponic
ˌhaɪdrəʊˈpɒnɪk
iconic
aɪˈkɒnɪk
ionic
aɪˈɒnɪk
ironic
aɪˈrɒnɪk
mastodonic
ˌmæstəˈdɒnɪk
sardonic
sɑːˈdɒnɪk
sonic
ˈsɒnɪk
supersonic
ˌsuːpəˈsɒnɪk
symphonic
sɪmˈfɒnɪk
Tiptronic
tɪpˈtrɒnɪk
tonic
ˈtɒnɪk
ultrasonic
ˌʌltrəˈsɒnɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BOUSTROPHEDONIC

bourne
Bournemouth
bourride
Bourse
boursier
boursin
bourtree
bouse
bousingken
boustrophedon
bousy
bout
boutade
boutique
boutiquey
bouton
boutonne
boutonniere
bouvardia
bouvier

WORDS THAT END LIKE BOUSTROPHEDONIC

Adonic
anionic
azonic
cationic
chthonic
colonic
draconic
embryonic
hadronic
hyaluronic
hydronic
hypotonic
masonic
Napoleonic
optoelectronic
philharmonic
phonic
Platonic
polyphonic
tectonic

Synonyms and antonyms of boustrophedonic in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «boustrophedonic» into 25 languages

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boustrophedonic
1,325 millions of speakers

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boustrophedonic
570 millions of speakers

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boustrophedonic
510 millions of speakers

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boustrophedonic
380 millions of speakers
ar

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boustrophedonic
280 millions of speakers

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boustrophedonic
278 millions of speakers

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boustrophedonic
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boustrophedonic
260 millions of speakers

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boustrophedonic
220 millions of speakers

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Boustrophedonic
190 millions of speakers

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boustrophedonic
180 millions of speakers

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犂耕
130 millions of speakers

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boustrophedonic
85 millions of speakers

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Boustrophedonic
85 millions of speakers
vi

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boustrophedonic
80 millions of speakers

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boustrophedonic
75 millions of speakers

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बस्टोफेडोनिक
75 millions of speakers

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boustrophedonic
70 millions of speakers

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boustrophedonic
65 millions of speakers

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boustrophedonic
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

boustrophedonic
40 millions of speakers

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boustrophedonic
30 millions of speakers
el

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boustrophedonic
15 millions of speakers
af

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boustrophedonic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

boustrophedonic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

boustrophedonic
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BOUSTROPHEDONIC»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BOUSTROPHEDONIC» OVER TIME

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BOUSTROPHEDONIC»

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Black Holes
We can call this kind of reading by the very old name of "boustrophedon," borrowing it from what in Ancient Egypt was called "boustrophedonic writing." ( And why not borrow it also from the character nicknamed Bustrofedon to whom Guillermo ...
Joseph Hillis Miller, Manuel Asensi, 1999
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Joyce and Reality: The Empirical Strikes Back
P.O. Westland Row, addresser, Martha Clifford, c/o. P.O. Dolphin's Barn: the transliterated name and address of the addresser of the 3 letters in reversed alphabetic boustrophedonic punctuated quadrilinear cryptogram (vowels suppressed): ...
John Gordon, 2004
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Experimental and Efficient Algorithms: Third International ...
We will see later that this is no longer true when we compare the performance of the unranking (either lexicographic or boustrophedonic) of labelled and unlabelled sets. The collected data for boustrophedonic unranking involves objects of ...
Celso C. Ribeiro, Simone L. Martins, 2004
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Algorithms - ESA '93: First Annual European Symposium, Bad ...
Boustrophedonic. random. generation. It turns out to be possible to combine the ideas underlying standard specifications with others that have also proved useful in detecting cycle leaders in permutations or in transposing rectangular matrices  ...
Thomas Lengauer, 1993
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American Printer and Lithographer
But later they changed their method of writing into a "boustrophedonic" one. " Boustrophedonic" is derived from the Greek words "bous" — ox "strophe" — to turn, to direct. The method assumed this name, because the way of writing was similar ...
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Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics: 12th ...
The next two theorems state the worst-case complexity of unranking objects of size n, for lexicographic and boustrophedonic orderings, respectively; they show that our unranking algorithms have the same performance as the algorithms for ...
Daniel Krob, Alexander A. Mikhalev, Alexander V. Mikhalev, 2000
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The Place of Narrative: Mural Decoration in Italian ...
Incidentally, "boustrophedonic" is now the technical term used to describe the motion of a computer printer head. 43. The layout of medieval inscriptions has been little studied, although the Boustrophedon most likely plays a role here too; see ...
Marilyn Aronberg Lavin, 1994
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Joyce's Messianism: Dante, Negative Existence, and the ...
12 The Book of Clay is written according to the boustrophedonic principle, that is, in a continuous stream of characters running forward and backward on the page ( "furrowards, bagawards"), "like yoxen [i.e., yoked oxen] at the turnpaht" (FW, ...
Gian Balsamo, 2004
9
Writing Science Through Critical Thinking
The word boustrophedonic means a movement alternating right to left, left to right . It refers to the way that the cattle plow a field. Some computer printers print in this fashion. Which is more compact or dense? • The ancient Hittites had a style of ...
Marilyn F. Moriarty, 1997
10
Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity
The inscription observes the boustrophedonic° manner, such as was retained in Southern Italy and Greece up till the fourth century 13.0., though examples of it in Roman inscriptions have hitherto been lacking. To commence with the first, ...

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BOUSTROPHEDONIC»

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Out of the Frying Pan
The boustrophedonic path of Chelsea deposited me at the Piers, where Tanya Bonakdar, Andrew Kreps, Anton Kern, and Friedrich Petzel were ... «Artforum, Jul 11»
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Yesterday's News
(Classics professor emeritus Mason Hammond informs bemused nonclassicists that boustrophedonic is a Greek term meaning “as the oxen turn at the end of a ... «Harvard Magazine, Apr 11»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Boustrophedonic [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/boustrophedonic>. May 2024 ».
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