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"word": "柴"
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"word": "katonai rangjelzés"
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"word": "pipa"
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"word": "pere tapaono"
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"(heraldry) A wide inverted V placed on a shield."
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"sense": "heraldry: wide inverted V",
"word": "polviorsi"
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}
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"ref": "1953, William James Entwistle, Aspects of Language, Faber and Faber, page 107",
"text": "It is pertinent to remember, however, that one of the greatest phoneticians, Jan Hus, used diacritics (in the form of points, which have later become chevrons in his own language), and that his alphabet is the most satisfactory for eastern Europe, since it has been officially adopted by the languages which use the Latin script.",
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"ref": "1976, Stephen J. Lieberman, The Sumerian Loanwords in Old-Babylonian Akkadian (Harvard Semitic Studies, issue 22; published by Scholars Press for Harvard Semitic Museum), page 66",
"text": "The symbol ř (“r” with a chevron) is used for a phoneme which sounds like Czech ř (as in Dvořák), i.e. a voiced alveolar flap. The presence of the chevron has no effect on the index numbers used in transliteration; cf. 2.058."
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"ref": "1963, Lucien Victor Gewiss, \"Process and Devices for Chevroning Pliable Sheet Material,\" US Patent 3397261 http://www.google.com/patents?id=XflXAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA11-IA4, page 14",
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}
],
"text": "→ English: chevron"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ru",
"2": "шевро́н",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Russian: шевро́н (ševrón)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Russian: шевро́н (ševrón)"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "Inherited"
},
"expansion": "Inherited",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "fro",
"3": "-",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"g": "",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"id": "",
"lit": "",
"nocat": "",
"pos": "",
"sc": "",
"sort": "",
"tr": "",
"ts": ""
},
"expansion": "Old French",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "fro",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Inherited from Old French",
"name": "inh+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "VL.",
"3": "*capriō",
"4": "*capriōnem"
},
"expansion": "Vulgar Latin *capriōnem",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "",
"3": "*capreus"
},
"expansion": "*capreus",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "caprone"
},
"expansion": "caprone",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "la",
"3": "caper",
"4": "",
"5": "goat"
},
"expansion": "Latin caper (“goat”)",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Inherited from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *capriōnem, from *capreus, cf. also caprone. Ultimately from Latin caper (“goat”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "chevrons",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m"
},
"expansion": "chevron m (plural chevrons)",
"name": "fr-noun"
}
],
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "chèvre"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"rafter"
],
"links": [
[
"rafter",
"rafter"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"fr:Heraldic charges"
],
"glosses": [
"chevron"
],
"links": [
[
"heraldry",
"heraldry"
],
[
"chevron",
"chevron#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(heraldry) chevron"
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"topics": [
"government",
"heraldry",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"monarchy",
"nobility",
"politics"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ʃə.vʁɔ̃/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-Lepticed7-chevron.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a8/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Lepticed7-chevron.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Lepticed7-chevron.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a8/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Lepticed7-chevron.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Lepticed7-chevron.wav.ogg",
"text": "Audio"
}
],
"word": "chevron"
}
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