Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
LITERAL
literal
(adjective) without interpretation or embellishment; “a literal depiction of the scene before him”
literal
(adjective) limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text; “a literal translation”
literal
(adjective) avoiding embellishment or exaggeration (used for emphasis); “it’s the literal truth”
actual, genuine, literal, real
(adjective) being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something; “her actual motive”; “a literal solitude like a desert”- G.K.Chesterton; “a genuine dilemma”
misprint, erratum, typographical error, typo, literal error, literal
(noun) a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
literal (comparative more literal, superlative most literal)
Exactly as stated; read or understood without additional interpretation; according to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical.
• Hooker
Following the letter or exact words; not free; not taking liberties.
(uncommon) Consisting of, or expressed by, letters.
• Johnson
(of a person) Giving a strict or literal construction; unimaginative; matter-of-fact.
(proscribed) Used non-literally as an intensifier; see literally for usage notes.
Antonyms
• (exactly as stated): figurative, metaphorical
Noun
literal (plural literals)
(epigraphy, typography) A misprint (or occasionally a scribal error) that affects a letter.
Synonym: typo
(programming) A value, as opposed to an identifier, written into the source code of a computer program.
Synonym: literal constant
(logic) A propositional variable or the negation of a propositional variable. Wp
Anagrams
• tallier
Source: Wiktionary
Lit"er*al, a. Etym: [F. litéral, littéral, L. litteralis, literalis, fr. littera, litera, a letter. See Letter.]
1. 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. Tyndale .
2. Following the letter or exact words; not free. A middle course between the rigor of literal translations and the liberty of paraphrasts. Hooker.
3. Consisting of, or expressed by, letters. The literal notation of numbers was known to Europeans before the ciphers. Johnson.
4. Giving a strict or literal construction; unimaginative; matter-of fast; -- applied to persons. Literal contract (Law), contract of which the whole evidence is given in writing. Bouvier.
– Literal equation (Math.), an equation in which known quantities are expressed either wholly or in part by means of letters; -- distinguished from a numerical equation.
Lit"er*al, n.
Definition: Literal meaning. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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TYPIFY
(verb) embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of; “The fugue typifies Bach’s style of composition”
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