braille

Plural: brailles

Noun

• French educator who lost his sight at the age of three and who invented a system of writing and printing for sightless people (1809-1852)
• a point system of writing in which patterns of raised dots represent letters and numerals
• A system of writing in which letters and some combinations of letters are represented by raised dots arranged in three or four rows of two dots each and are read by the blind and partially sighted using the fingertips.

Verb

Verb Forms: brailled, brailling, brailles

• To write using the Braille system of raised dots for the blind.
• transcribe in braille
• To write in, or convert into, the braille writing system.
• to identify something by touch.

Adj

• Of, relating to or written in braille.

Examples

• He wished the Scrabble tiles were in BRAILLE so he could play blindfolded and still win.
• I played back my recorded notes and brailled them.

Synonyms

Louis Braille

Anagrams of braille