literate
ਪੜ੍ਹੇ
definition
noun
If these were wanton act of miscreants, one incident that took place inside the Government Medical College campus on Thursday has proved that even the literates are not bothered to ‘rescue’ a roadside tree from being consumed by flames.
a literate person.
adjective
Most of us are familiar with the concept of literacy as it applies to reading and writing and it is generally accepted that being literate means being able to decipher the written word and compose written work.
(of a person) able to read and write.
example
Having a technically 'literate' family is a blessing.
Indeed, in such a 'literate' society the ability to read and write had become a major social fault line.
A thousand years ago, technology severely limited the amount of words the average 'literate' person could read in a lifetime.
And though I am a writer myself, I am not referring to the media of the written word - because the 'literate' are all too often the most persuadable of the virtues of a dialogue across all kinds of boundaries.
To suggest that the number of monks who were actually 'literate' is quite small should not be taken to mean that they had no experience with literacy or were completely unlearned.
More than 80 percent of its population is 'literate' , and life expectancy is over 70 years.
Books of 'literate' and entertaining essays on occasional topics - what used to be called belles-lettres - are no longer common, and that is a shame.
The printing press didn't abolish war, but it did create a 'literate' population that was able to educate itself.
Shared experience beyond these things would have involved, for the 'literate' among them, the Bible, or oft-recited poems and some popular books.
But is it not the case that literature supersedes history, as one of the ultimate signifiers in a universe 'literate' in necessary layers of meanings?
I enjoyed reading the transcripts of David's well-crafted, highly 'literate' speeches.
I want to make Maine the most digitally 'literate' society on Earth.
When the person loses the capability to derive and create meaning in a culturally significant way, he or she becomes less, not more, 'literate' .
If society at large became more 'literate' then the clergy could more readily be recruited from the laity; they did not have to remain what they had come close to being, a hereditary caste.
The ensemble playing is lock tight, the soloists are eloquent; the seven pieces (five of them composed by group members) are 'literate' and stimulating.
Within a few years, most Cherokees had become 'literate' in their own language.
It is true language changes over time but its development must be driven by the 'literate' if cohesion is to be maintained.
In the case of English the answer is obvious: everyone in today's society needs to be 'literate' and able to communicate well.
Even those already 'literate' in English adjusted to the new Creole system within five minutes.
A modern state needed a population 'literate' in the official language, and a population that was disciplined either by religious instruction or by a secular civic morality.
By reading aloud, a 'literate' person engages a child in language as they sit together, relaxed and quiet.
And this is the portion of the population who are computer 'literate' .
You don't have to be a 'literate' to know the wiser option.
To return to the slave narratives, they are in themselves very revealing of the scepticism directed toward the 'literate' slave both in their own time and in our histories of them.
Most of us are familiar with the concept of literacy as it applies to reading and writing and it is generally accepted that being 'literate' means being able to decipher the written word and compose written work.
And like all learning, becoming 'literate' is a lifelong process.
I think comparative religion is a wonderful study, and we should be more theologically 'literate' than we are.
The written form of Arabic is the same for all 'literate' Arabs (those able to read and write), regardless of how different their spoken dialects are.
This was especially so among the clergy, many of whom were barely 'literate' .
The most key ingredient is a scientifically 'literate' work force and general population.
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