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  • 21spell trouble — {v. phr.} To signify major difficulties ahead. * /The note we just received from the Chancellor seems to spell trouble./ …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 22Spell Cast — (MediaCorp TV Channel 5 Singapore)premiered June 5 2007.It is a spelling game show. Earlier this year, Channel 5 s new spelling game show Spell Cast, well, cast its net for young spelling mavericks aged 9 to 12 years. Now, you can track these… …

    Wikipedia

  • 23spell check — n. the act or an instance of using a SPELL CHECKER * * * …

    Universalium

  • 24spell — spel n a period of bodily or mental distress or disorder <a spell of coughing> <fainting spells> * * * (spelґ) a short period of time, of indefinite length …

    Medical dictionary

  • 25spell-checker — spell .checker n a computer program that tells you when you have spelled a word wrongly >spell check v [I and T] …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 26spell check — (v.) to use a computer s spell checker application on a document, by 1985. The applications themselves date to the late 1970s …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 27spell out something — spell out (something) to explain something in detail. Students have been given a fact sheet that spells out how AIDS is transferred. The company has a very strict dress code, and they spell it out for you when you start working there …

    New idioms dictionary

  • 28spell out — (something) to explain something in detail. Students have been given a fact sheet that spells out how AIDS is transferred. The company has a very strict dress code, and they spell it out for you when you start working there …

    New idioms dictionary

  • 29spell checker — spell′ (or spell′ing) check er n. cmp edu a computer program for checking the spelling of words in an electronic document • Etymology: 1980–85 …

    From formal English to slang

  • 30spell — verb. The form for the past tense and past participle is spelt or spelled. Spelt is more usual in BrE, especially in the primary meaning ‘to write or name the letters of a word’; spelled is more common in AmE and in the phrasal verb spell out =… …

    Modern English usage