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(orthography) A mark or character used in writing, in order to indicate the place of the spoken accent, or to indicate the nature or quality of the vowel marked.
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(linguistics) A mark or character used in writing, in order to indicate the place of the spoken accent, or to indicate the nature or quality of the vowel marked.
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(Internet) A video uploaded to YouTube in which a speaker signifies bits of English dialectal language distinctive to their region.
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(rare) Alternative spelling of accent mark [(linguistics) A mark or character used in writing, in order to indicate the place of the spoken accent, or to indicate the nature or quality of the vowel marked.]
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Act of accentuating; applications of accent.
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(orthography) An acute accent (´).
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(orthography): A diacritical mark ( ´ ) that can be placed above a number of letters in many languages of the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic writing systems.
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(linguistics) Of a pronounced word: exhibiting a language-specific type of pitch accent or tone characterized by an acute accent mark in the respective language transcription or orthography.
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(orthography) The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts.
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(orthography and typography) An Ancient Greek pitch-marking diacritic: ⟨ ` ⟩; written atop vowels, it denotes normal or low pitch.
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(US) An accent characteristic of African-Americans (black Americans).
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(orthography, printing) A semicircular diacritical mark (˘) placed above a vowel, commonly used to mark its quantity as short.
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(nonstandard) A circumflex, ⟨ ＾ ⟩.
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(orthography) In the spelling of Catalan, French, Portuguese and some other languages, a mark ⟨¸⟩ sometimes placed under the letter c to indicate that it is pronounced /s/ rather than /k/, as in Catalan força, French menaçant, and Portuguese almoço, and also used in various other languages to change the sounds of other letters.
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A diacritical mark (ˆ) placed over a vowel in the orthography or transliteration of many languages to change its pronunciation; while in some other languages over a consonant.
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(Romanian typography) A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
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(orthography, not comparable) Denoting a distinguishing mark applied to a letter or character.
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other similar diacritics
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(orthography, typography) A symbol in writing used with a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning, also called "tone marks" when used to indicate tones, e.g. in Vietnamese or pinyin (romanised Mandarin Chinese).
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Written with diacritics.
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The addition of diacritical marks
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To add diacritical marks
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That has diacritical marks added
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(orthography) A diacritic ( ¨ ) placed over a vowel letter (especially the second of two consecutive ones) indicating that it is sounded separately, usually forming a distinct syllable, as in the English words naïve, Noël and Brontë, the French haïr and the Dutch ruïne.
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Alternative form of diaeresis [(orthography) A diacritic ( ¨ ) placed over a vowel letter (especially the second of two consecutive ones) indicating that it is sounded separately, usually forming a distinct syllable, as in the English words naïve, Noël and Brontë, the French haïr and the Dutch ruïne.]
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(Hebrew grammar) A distinctive accent.
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A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ.
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A rare diacritical mark (˝) made up of two acute accents on the same letter, usually a vowel.
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A diacritical mark whose appearance consists of two grave accents.
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(linguistics) Of a character, having a diaeresis/umlaut/rock dots
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Prominence given to a syllable or words, by raising the voice or printing in italic or underlined type.
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(typography) The symbol 〓, used as a placeholder in electronic or printed text to indicate the presence of an ideographic character for which no glyph is available.
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(countable) A diacritic mark ( ` ) used in many languages to distinguish the pronunciations of vowels.
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(phonology and typography, obsolete, rare) A dipping tone, or the diacritic that denotes it, similar in form to the breve (˘) and the háček (ˇ).
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(typography, very rare) The double acute accent (˝), a rare diacritical mark made up of two acute accents, chiefly used in the Hungarian language.
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A mark ⟨⸒⟩ in late Classical and Byzantine Greek used as a form of interpunct to show two words should be read separately in situations where they might otherwise be confused with an identically spelled single word.
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A diacritical mark whose appearance is of a breve upside-down, thus similar to a rounded circumflex.
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(typography) Any diacritic obtained by rotating a circumflex (ˆ) 180°.
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(linguistics) A punctuation mark or character used as a substitute for a repeated word or character, and generally handwritten as a form of abbreviation.
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A diacritical mark used in Indic scripts to suppress an inherent vowel (e.g., the Hindi viram, the Bengali or Oriya hasanta) or render the entire syllable silent (e.g., the Burmese virama, the Khmer toandakhiat).
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A ring-shaped diacritical mark (˚), whose use is largely restricted to Å, å and Ů, ů, and whereon it represents an etymological ‘o’.
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The symbol ː (the triangular colon), which marks long vowels in IPA.
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(orthography) A short, straight, horizontal diacritical mark (◌̄) placed over a letter, usually to indicate that the pronunciation of a vowel is long.
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A diacritical mark whose appearance is of a macron, and is placed below the letter.
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A written character or sign.
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A tilde that runs through a character halfway up instead of being placed above it.
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(Celtic linguistics) An Old Irish pronominal clitic added to the end of an accentual unit containing a pronoun, now more commonly called emphatic suffixes.
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A dagger symbol (†), which is used in printed matter as a reference mark to refer the reader to a footnote, marginal note, etc.; beside a person's name to indicate that the person is deceased; or beside a date to indicate that it is a person's death date.
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(orthography) A hook-shaped diacritical mark (˛) attached underneath a vowel, typically to indicate nasalization, as in Ąą, Ęę, Įį, Ǫǫ or Ųų.
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A dot placed above a letter, as a diacritical mark.
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A ring diacritic positioned above a character, as in Å.
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Alternative spelling of oxia [(orthography and typography) An Ancient Greek pitch-marking diacritic: ⟨ ´ ⟩; written atop vowels, it denotes high pitch on short vowels, and rising pitch on long vowels and diphthongs.]
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(orthography and typography) An Ancient Greek pitch-marking diacritic: ⟨ ´ ⟩; written atop vowels, it denotes high pitch on short vowels, and rising pitch on long vowels and diphthongs.
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(typography, pre-1989 IPA) A hamiform diacritic (̡) formerly used to mark consonantal palatalisation; superseded by the superscript jay: (ʲ).
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(phonology) Any of a variety of restricted tone systems that use variations in pitch to give prominence to a syllable or mora within a word. The placement of this tone or the way it is realized can give different meanings to otherwise similar words.
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(transitive) To mark with diacritics.
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A stroke added to a medieval punctus; a punctuation mark created by addition of such a stroke.
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(orthography) A dot placed above a letter to indicate that it is a copying error and should be ignored.
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(palaeography) A medieval punctuation mark indicating a short pause (approximately '̣).
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(palaeography) A medieval punctuation mark indicating a medium-length pause (approximately ⸵).
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A kind of diacritic used in some South Asian language scripts to indicate an "r" sound at the beginning of a consonant cluster.
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(typography) A hamiform diacritic used to mark consonantal retroflexion.
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(Old Latin typography) A diacritic, resembling a 180°-rotated ‘C’ (i.e., being similar in appearance to ⟨ ᵓ ⟩), written atop a consonant to mark gemination, superseded in Classical Latin by doubling the letter representing the geminated consonant.
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(computing, typography) Of a character: having a dot that is removed when an accent is applied, as for example with the character i becoming í.
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(orthography) A diacritic mark in Ancient Greek used to indicate aspiration of an initial vowel or rho.
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A dot used as a punctuation mark in historical Greek texts, especially at the top of the line, equivalent to a period or full stop.
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(phonology) A method or application of realizing phonological prominence of a segment phonetically by loudness or duration.
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(phonetics) A written mark to show which part of a word should be stressed
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(typography) Synonym of ellipsis
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A diacritical mark (˜) placed above a letter to modify its pronunciation, such as by palatalization in Spanish words or nasalization in Portuguese words.
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(orthography and typography) The Modern Greek stress-marking diacritic: ⟨ ΄ ⟩, written atop a vowel in a given word’s stressed syllable.
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A diacritic consisting of two dots ( ¨ ) placed over a letter, used among other things to indicate umlaut or diaeresis.
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A diacritical mark (ː), used in IPA, consisting of two triangles, and marking the preceding phoneme as long.
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Alternative form of trema [A diacritic consisting of two dots ( ¨ ) placed over a letter, used among other things to indicate umlaut or diaeresis.]
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(informal, orthography) A diaeresis.
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A dot placed below a letter, as a diacritical mark.
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(typography, dated) A pipe, ⟨[[Unsupported titles/Vertical line||]]⟩, particularly (poetry) in its use to mark metrical feet.
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