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Literal vs. Typo — What's the Difference?

Literal vs. Typo — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Literal and Typo

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Literal

Conforming or limited to the simplest, nonfigurative, or most obvious meaning of a word or words.

Typo

A typographical error.

Literal

Word for word; verbatim
A literal translation.

Typo

A typographical error.
Sorry, I meant to say "buy a SODA" - "sofa" was a typo

Literal

Avoiding exaggeration, metaphor, or embellishment; factual; prosaic
A literal description.
A literal mind.
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Typo

A compositor; a typographer.

Literal

Consisting of, using, or expressed by letters
Literal notation.

Typo

To make a typographical error.

Literal

A letter or symbol that stands for itself as opposed to a feature, function, or entity associated with it in a programming language
$ can be a symbol that refers to the end of a line, but as a literal, it is a dollar sign.

Typo

A compositor.

Literal

Exactly as stated; read or understood without additional interpretation; according to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical, and etymonic rather than idiomatic.
The literal translation is "hands full of bananas" but it means "empty-handed".

Typo

A typographical error; an error in typing, printing, etc.

Literal

Following the letter or exact words; not free; not taking liberties
A literal reading of the law would prohibit it, but that is clearly not the intent.

Typo

A mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind

Literal

(theology) (broadly) That which generally assumes that the plainest reading of a given scripture is correct but which allows for metaphor where context indicates it; (specifically) following the historical-grammatical method of biblical interpretation

Literal

(uncommon) Consisting of, or expressed by, letters (of an alphabet)
A literal equation

Literal

(of a person) Unimaginative; matter-of-fact

Literal

(proscribed) Used non-literally as an intensifier; see literally for usage notes.
Telemarketers are the literal worst.

Literal

A misprint (or occasionally a scribal error) that affects a letter.

Literal

(programming) A value, as opposed to an identifier, written into the source code of a computer program.

Literal

(logic) A propositional variable or the negation of a propositional variable. Wp

Literal

According to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical; as, the literal meaning of a phrase.
It hath but one simple literal sense whose light the owls can not abide.

Literal

Following the letter or exact words; not free.
A middle course between the rigor of literal translations and the liberty of paraphrasts.

Literal

Consisting of, or expressed by, letters.
The literal notation of numbers was known to Europeans before the ciphers.

Literal

Giving a strict or literal construction; unimaginative; matter-of-fact; - applied to persons.

Literal

Literal meaning.

Literal

A mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind

Literal

Being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something;
Her actual motive
A literal solitude like a desert
A genuine dilemma

Literal

Without interpretation or embellishment;
A literal translation of the scene before him

Literal

Limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text;
A literal translation

Literal

Lacking stylistic embellishment;
A literal description
Wrote good but plain prose
A plain unadorned account of the coronation
A forthright unembellished style

Literal

Of the clearest kind; usually used for emphasis;
It's the literal truth
A matter of investment, pure and simple

Literal

(of a translation) corresponding word for word with the original;
Literal translation of the article
An awkward word-for-word translation

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