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单词 speller
释义
speller
noun[C]
uk
/ˈspel.ər/us
/ˈspel.ɚ/

spellernoun[C](PERSON)

apersonwhospellswords in the way that isdescribed:
With thesegameswehopeto make itcoolto be agoodspeller.
InschoolI was always abadspeller.
Hemingway, Keats,VirginiaWoolf, and Yeats were all said to beappallingspellers.
She said thatfrequenttexterstendto bebetterspellers, because they're much more used to writing.
apersonwhotakespartin aspellingcompetition:
She was one of only 12 spellers who made it to thefinalsbroadcastliveonABC.
More examples
  • He isn't anaturalspeller and I used to be ateacher, so I always have tocheckhiswork.
  • Good spellers oftenenjoysearchingforexceptionsandlookingatincorrectexamples, because they canseewhat'swrong.
  • Spellers who rely onsound(that is, spellers with aweakvisualmemory) often makemistakes.
  • Theannualspellingbeebeginsthisweekin Washington, D. C., withnearly300 spellers.
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spellernoun[C](BOOK)

US
abookthatteachesspelling:
Theypublishgrammars,usageguides,pronunciationguides, spellers, etc.
More examples
  • I never went toschool. Ilearnedtoreadout of McGuffey's speller. It was a littlebookwith ablueback.
  • BecauseEnglishspellingis oftenunrelatedtoitspronunciation, spellers were used asteachingtoolsinschools.
  • Webster'ssmallvolume, inlatereditionstitledThe American SpellingBook,becamewidelyknownas The Blue-Backed Speller.
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  • flipback
  • novelette
  • novella
  • page-turner
  • paperback
  • photo album
  • travelogue
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  • young adult
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(Definition ofspellerfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
speller
noun
uk
/ˈspel.ər/us
/ˈspel.ɚ/
good/bad speller
someone who is good/badatspelling
拼写能力强／常犯拼写错误的人

Examplesofspeller

speller
Among the group of poor spellers, there were a number of children who had serious difficulties with vowel length categorization.
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An analysis of the component spelling and reading skills of good readers-good spellers, good readers-poor spellers, and poor readers-poor spellers.
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As we have seen, even inexperienced spellers use uppercase letters more often in the initial positions of their spellings than in the later positions.
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Little is known about whether beginning spellers select letters on the basis of partial or inexact matches between letter names and words being written.
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Nevertheless, even the group of normally developing 10-year-old spellers made about 15% incorrect categorizations combined for words and nonwords.
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Thus, rather than being restricted to highly skilled spellers, the advantage for written spelling is evident from an early age.
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Another characteristic of less skilled spellers, which has been assessed and reported less often, is the inconsistency of their spelling.
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Thespeller, on the other hand, is an absolute joy.
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The 29 poor spellers that participated in the present study all performed below the 10th percentile.
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The size of this effect was similar for all three groups of participants (normal, poor, and young inexperienced spellers).
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The poor spellers performed on about the same level as younger inexperienced spellers.
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However, for the consonant spellings even the poor spellers showed a clear difference between context sensitive and wordspecific spellings.
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Thus, explicit attention to context sensitive spellings in spelling instruction may be a great help for poor spellers.
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In many cases they require linguistic insights on the part of thespeller.
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Even children who were partial alphabetic spellers showed a slight but significant preference for final doublets.
From theCambridge English Corpus
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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