Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Diacritical.
- adjective Medicine Diagnostic or distinctive.
- noun A mark, such as the cedilla of façade or the acute accent of resumé, added to a letter to indicate a special phonetic value or distinguish words that are otherwise graphically identical.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Serving to distinguish: same as
diacritical (which is the more common form). - noun A diacritical mark (which see, under
diacritical ).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective That separates or distinguishes; -- applied to points or marks used to distinguish letters of similar form, or different sounds of the same letter, as, ā, ă, ä, ō, ŏ, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
distinguishing - adjective orthography, not comparable Denoting a distinguishing
mark applied to aletter orcharacter . - noun A special
mark added to aletter to indicate a differentpronunciation ,stress ,tone , ormeaning .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of distinguishing
- noun a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The French feminine name, however, is “Michelle”, and carries no diacritic. kid bitzer Says:
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Two of the problems that you mention, are lack of a GA that does the focussing job of RP, and the disarray of phonetic, alphabetic and diacritic systems used by different US publishers in their dictionaries.
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AutoCorrect is programmed with a number of two - or three-key combinations that will correct the appearance of a letter with a diacritic.
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AutoCorrect is programmed with a number of two - or three-key combinations that will correct the appearance of a letter with a diacritic.
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The following are Pashto phonemes rendered in Arabic letters and their equivalents in English letters, some of which include a diacritic:
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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The following are Pashto phonemes rendered in Arabic letters and their equivalents in English letters, some of which include a diacritic:
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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Chinese has five vowels, each with one of four tones, and possibly a diacritic mark.
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It is of course a Palandine name, which accounts for the diacritic, but despite the pronunciation and the obvious shortened form, it has nothing to do with the word hawk.
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(Jun 9 2008) I forgot the IPA wavy diacritic underneath the *d denoting creakiness (as in MIE ablative ending *-ad̰ above).
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(Jun 9 2008) I forgot the IPA wavy diacritic underneath the *d denoting creakiness (as in MIE ablative ending *-ad̰ above).
alexz commented on the word diacritic
bîľbÿ mäďę mé łòõk űp ţhîš wøŕď
July 16, 2013