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Meaning of "pangram" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF PANGRAM

ˈpæŋˌɡræm


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PANGRAM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pangram is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PANGRAM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Pangram

A pangram or holoalphabetic sentence for a given alphabet is a sentence using every letter of the alphabet at least once. Pangrams have been used to display typefaces, test equipment, and develop skills in handwriting, calligraphy, and keyboarding. The best known English pangram is "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" It has been used since at least the late 19th century, was utilized by Western Union to test Telex / TWX data communication equipment for accuracy and reliability, and is now used by a number of computer programs to display computer fonts. An example in another language is the German Victor jagt zwölf Boxkämpfer quer über den großen Sylter Deich, containing all letters used in German, including every umlaut plus the ß. It has been used since before 1800. List of pangrams has examples in many languages. Short pangrams in English are more difficult to come up with and tend to use uncommon words, because the English language uses some letters much more frequently than others. Longer pangrams may afford more opportunity for humor, cleverness, or thoughtfulness.

Definition of pangram in the English dictionary

The definition of pangram in the dictionary is a sentence incorporating all the letters of the alphabet, such as the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PANGRAM

anagram · audiogram · cablegram · cardiogram · dendrogram · diagram · electrocardiogram · harmonogram · histogram · hologram · ideogram · kilogram · milligram · monogram · organogram · pentagram · phonogram · pictogram · stereogram · telegram

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PANGRAM

pang · Pang-fou · panga · Pangaea · pangamic · pangamy · Pangea · pangene · pangenesis · pangenetically · pangless · Pangloss · Panglossian · Pango Pango · pangolin · pangrammatist · panhandle · Panhandle State · panhandler · panharmonicon

WORDS THAT END LIKE PANGRAM

Agram · application program · Bagram · block diagram · computer program · engram · gram · green gram · ingram · mammogram · microgram · outreach program · program · reprogram · software program · source program · subprogram · tangram · tree diagram · Wagram

Synonyms and antonyms of pangram in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «pangram» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF PANGRAM

Find out the translation of pangram to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of pangram from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pangram» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

pangram
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

pangrama
570 millions of speakers
en

English

pangram
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

pangram
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

pangram
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

pangram
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

pangram
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

pangram
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

pangram
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Pangram
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

pangram
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

パングラム
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

pangram
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Pangram
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

pangram
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

pangram
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

पांग्राम
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

pangram
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

pangramma
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

pangram
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

pangram
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

PANGRAM
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

pangram
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pangram
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

pangram
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pangram
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pangram

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PANGRAM»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of pangram
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pangram

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PANGRAM»

Discover the use of pangram in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pangram and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Beginning XML
The fourth <pangram> element has <pangram> for a start tag but </Pangram> for the end tag and tags must match by case. This time, though, some content has been read and so the teXt of the first three <pangram> elements is shown. Correct ...
Joe Fawcett, Danny Ayers, Liam R. E. Quin, 2012
2
Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: From Photons to Quantum ...
TableTable 9.29.2 The pangram The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog is turned into a private key by assigning each letter of the English alphabet the first occurrence of a new letter in the pangram. Exercises:Exercises: 9.2.19.2.1 Use ...
Reinhold Blumel, 2011
3
Oracle Certified Professional Java SE 7 Programmer Exams ...
class TreeSetTest { public static void main(String []args) { String pangram = "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"; Set<Character> aToZee = new TreeSet <Character>(); for(char gram : pangram.toCharArray()) aToZee.add(gram); ...
S G Ganesh, Tushar Sharma, 2013
4
LaTeX Beginner's Guide
Time for action — comparing Computer Modern to Latin Modern We shall print out a very famous pangram phrase, once using the standard font Computer Modern and once using the Latin Modern font. Because Latin Modern is very similar to ...
Stefan Kottwitz, 2011
5
A-to-Z Crosswords: All 26 Letters in Every Puzzle
"Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs" is an example of a sentence that's a pangram — that is, it contains all 26 letters of the alphabet. What makes the sentence so amazing is that it has only 32 letters, a mere six more than required.
Rich Norris, 2003
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Ella Minnow Pea: A Progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary Fable
The leaders interpret the fallen tile as a message from beyond the grave and the letter is banned from use. On an island where the residents pride themselves on their love of language, this is seen as a tragedy.
Mark Dunn, 2001
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Phrases: Hello World Program, Pangram, Just Another Perl ...
Chapters: Hello world program, Pangram, Just another Perl hacker, Phrase, Oxymoron, Noun phrase, Hold come what may, The whole nine yards, Slogan, List of pangrams, Grub Street, Cultural cringe, Rome Rule, The empire on which the sun never ...
Books, LLC, Source: Wikipedia, Books Group, 2010
8
R For Dummies
pangram <- “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” > pangram [1] “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” To split this text at the word boundaries (spaces), you can use strsplit() as follows: > strsplit(pangram, “ “) [[1]] [1] “The” ...
Joris Meys, Andrie de Vries, 2012
9
Funny Side of English
A sentence containing all the letters of the alphabet is called a pangram. The most famous pangram in the English language is the following one: The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog. Another notable pangram is this one: Pack my box ...
O.A. Booty, 2002
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The ActionScript 3.0 Quick Reference Guide: For Developers ...
indexOf("o", 14)); // Displays 18 trace(pangram.lastIndexOf("o")); // Displays 40 In the first trace() statement, only one parameter is supplied, "o", and the return value is 13 because the letter “o” makes its first appearance at index 13 (starting with ...
David Stiller, Rich Shupe, Jen deHaan, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PANGRAM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pangram is used in the context of the following news items.
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Newspaper offices reimagined as hotels: From rooms inspired by …
Sneaky newsroom references are dotted throughout, including the famous pangram "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" printed on a ... «The Independent, May 15»
2
Chivalrous Rule
D, bags few lynx,” but because I already had the P and the H at 7-Down and I know it's a pangram, the only possible letter left had to be D. And ... «New York Times, Apr 15»
3
Bit of Mind Reading
... 12 Hawaiian letters only (my son goes to UH), quadruple pangram (use every letter four times), etc. I did develop some tricks to make it easier ... «New York Times, Apr 15»
4
Hotel opens in old Portland Press Herald building
The Press Hotel, in its newspaper mode, has an editor's chair with a pangram, a sentence using all the letters of the alphabet. THE PRESS ... «Boston Globe, Apr 15»
5
Science as a Vocation
SATURDAY PUZZLE — Most people don't notice when a puzzle is a PANGRAM (the grid uses every letter FROM A TO Z, once), but you might ... «New York Times, Mar 15»
6
New type from Sawdust, Fontsmith, Benoît Bodhuin & more
Animations feature mice, ants, laser cut and magnetic letters and are based on the pangram, The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog. «Creative Review, Nov 14»
7
Call From the Rear
I'm glad I was able to get the pangram without doing anything too unnatural. I like the intersecting 7's in the middle of the puzzle (PASSION, ... «New York Times, Nov 14»
8
Archipelago Component
I don't remember starting with any desire to make my first pangram, but when I got down to just the northwest corner and all I needed was a J … «New York Times, Nov 14»
9
Hollywood makes history with first ever box office pangram
Hollywood makes history with first ever box office pangram. Lovers of wordplay are joyful that for the first time the top 10 movies in the US ... «The Guardian, Oct 14»
10
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
So this pangram's fine. Photo. Puzzle constructor Andrea Carla Michaels and editor Will Shortz. By the way, Andrea visited me a couple of ... «New York Times, Sep 14»
REFERENCE
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