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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To arrange in alphabetical order.
  • transitive verb To supply with an alphabet.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To arrange alphabetically.
  • To express by alphabetic characters.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To arrange alphabetically.
  • transitive verb To furnish with an alphabet.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb US, Canada To arrange items (i.e. words) in order of the first (and subsequent) letters as they appear in the alphabet.
  • verb Alternative spelling of alphabetise.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb arrange in alphabetical order
  • verb provide with an alphabet

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