Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Marking a distinction; distinguishing.
- adjective Able to discriminate or distinguish.
- adjective Serving as a diacritic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Serving to distinguish; distinguishing; distinctive: as, a diacritical mark, point, or sign.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of
distinguishing or of making adistinction . - adjective Of, pertaining to, or serving as a
diacritic
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of distinguishing
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Examples
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First of all, I apologize that I do not know how to make my computer put the diacritical markings on the Spanish words.
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Errors and omissions in Greek diacritical marks have been silently corrected.
The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847
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In the pronunciation guide you will see some strange characters called diacritical marks above or below a letter to modify the way a word is pronounced.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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Jay's theory, and that of a couple other scholars, is that, in fact, Jeffer -- th -- those -- those marks are kind of diacritical accents to indicate how the thing should be read aloud.
Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution 1997
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I am much better with diacritical than with English grammar, anyway.
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It will not be until 2012 that Facebook supports the full range of diacritical marks and international characters that let the other 5.5 billion residents of Earth use their name as a username, but this fact will go unreported.
Exclusive: The Future of Facebook Usernames - Anil Dash 2009
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This was the edit, BTW, where the printer had lost every letter that had a diacritical on it.
Writing Deadlines - The Missed and the Made at SF Novelists 2010
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Bill, try the following to allow your computer to make "foreign" diacritical marks in any document.
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Not since Stør has a diacritical mark been so thoroughly ignored.
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Aside from being pretentious, diacritical marks slow down typing and type setting, and reduce productivity.
jeffazi commented on the word diacritical
capable of distinguishing; "students having superior diacritic powers"; "the diacritic elements in culture"- S.F.Nadel
October 31, 2007