English word senses marked with topical category "Diacritical marks"

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• accent acute (Noun) An acute accent.
• accent grave (Noun) A grave accent.
• acute (Adjective) Intense; sensitive; sharp.
• acute accent (Noun) A diacritical mark ( ´ ) that can be placed above a number of letters in many languages of the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic writing systems.
• anusvara (Noun) A diacritic used in Indic scripts as a nasal consonant.
• apostrophe (Noun) The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts.
• bar (Noun) Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash.
• bar (Preposition) Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.
• baria (Noun) An Ancient Greek pitch-marking diacritic: ⟨ ` ⟩; written atop vowels, it denotes normal or low pitch.
• breve (Noun) A semicircular diacritical mark (˘) placed above a vowel, commonly used to mark its quantity as short.
• candrabindu (Noun) A diacritic used in Indic scripts like Devanagari (ँ), Bengali (ঁ), Gurmukhi ( ਁ), Gujarati (ઁ), Odia (ଁ), and Telugu (ఁ) scripts. It usually indicates that the previous vowel is nasalized. Shown here over the letter "ka" (or in the case of Telugu, after the "ka")
• caron (Noun) háček
• cedilla (Noun) 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.
• circumflex (Noun) 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.
• circumflex accent (Noun) Synonym of circumflex
• comma (Noun) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
• cédille (Noun) A cedilla.
• dagesh (Noun) A symbol used in Hebrew script to denote a geminated consonant, or a consonant pronounced as a plosive as opposed to as a fricative.
• dakuten (Noun) A diacritic (゛) used with Japanese kana to mark a consonant as voiced.
• diacritic (Adjective) Denoting a distinguishing mark applied to a letter or character.
• diacritic (Noun) A special mark added to a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning.
• diacritical mark (Noun) A symbol in writing used with a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning.
• diaeresis (Noun) A separation of one syllable (especially a vowel which is a diphthong, that is, beginning with one sound and ending with another) into two distinct syllables; distraction.; The diacritical mark consisting of two dots (¨) placed over a letter (especially the second of two consecutive vowels) to indicate that it is sounded separately, usually as a distinct syllable.
• dialytika (Noun) A diaeresis or trema in the Greek alphabet
• diaresis (Noun) Alternative spelling of diaeresis
• dieresis (Noun) Alternative spelling of diaeresis
• diæresis (Noun) Archaic form of diaeresis.
• dot (Noun) A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period.
• double acute accent (Noun) A rare diacritical mark (˝) made up of two acute accents on the same letter, usually a vowel.
• double grave accent (Noun) A diacritical mark whose appearance consists of two grave accents.
• geresh (Noun) The symbol "׳", that serves as a diacritical mark, or a punctuation mark, in Hebrew.
• grave (Adjective) Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
• grave accent (Noun) A diacritic mark ( ` ) used in many languages to distinguish the pronunciations of vowels.
• halant (Noun) A diacritic used in most writing systems of the Indian subcontinent to signify the lack of an inherent vowel.
• handakuten (Noun) A semi-voiced diacritic (゜) used with Japanese kana to change a /h/ to a /p/.
• hiriq (Noun) A Hebrew nikud vowel sign, a dot written beneath a letter.
• holam (Noun) A Hebrew nikud vowel sign represented by a dot above the upper-left corner of the consonant letter. It indicates the mid back rounded vowel.
• hook (Noun) A diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
• hook above (Noun) A tone mark ( ̉) that indicates falling then rising tone in Vietnamese.
• horn (Noun) A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u when writing in Vietnamese, thus forming ơ and ư.
• hungarumlaut (Noun) The double acute accent (˝), a rare diacritical mark made up of two acute accents, chiefly used in the Hungarian language.
• háček (Noun) A caron; a diacritical mark (ˇ) usually resembling an inverted circumflex, but in the cases of ď, Ľ, ľ, and ť resembling a prime (′) instead.
• inverted breve (Noun) A diacritical mark whose appearance is of a breve upside-down, thus similar to a rounded circumflex.
• inverted caret (Noun) A caret (^) that has been inverted.
• kamatz (Noun) A Hebrew nikud vowel sign, shaped like a small uppercase T, which is written beneath a letter to indicate an /a/ sound (or, in Ashkenazi pronunciation, an /o/ sound).
• killer (Noun) Synonym of virama (“kind of diacritical mark”)
• kroužek (Noun) A ring-shaped diacritical mark (˚), whose use is largely restricted to Å, å and Ů, ů, and whereon it represents an etymological ‘o’.
• kubutz (Noun) A Hebrew nikud diacritical mark (ִ◌ֻ) in the form of three diagonal dots underneath a letter. Kubutz is pronounced as Modern Hebrew /u/, like the vowel “o” in “moon”.
• long-vowel mark (Noun) The symbol ː (the triangular colon), which marks long vowels in IPA.
• long-vowel mark (Noun) The symbol ー, which marks long vowels in Japanese hiragana and katakana.
• macron (Noun) A short, straight, horizontal diacritical mark (◌̄) placed over a letter, usually to indicate that the pronunciation of a vowel is long.
• macron below (Noun) A diacritical mark whose appearance is of a macron, and is placed below the letter.
• maru (Noun) A large, circular punctuation mark (。) used as a full stop in Japanese text.
• middle tilde (Noun) A tilde that runs through a character halfway up instead of being placed above it.
• ogonek (Noun) A hook-shaped diacritical mark ⟨◌̨⟩ attached underneath a vowel, typically to indicate nasalization, as in Ąą, Ęę, Įį, Ǫǫ or Ųų.
• overdot (Noun) A dot placed above a letter, as a diacritical mark.
• overring (Noun) A ring diacritic positioned above a character, as in Å.
• oxia (Noun) An Ancient Greek pitch-marking diacritic: ⟨ ´ ⟩; written atop vowels, it denotes high pitch on short vowels, and rising pitch on long vowels and diphthongs.
• patach (Noun) A vowel point in the Hebrew script appearing as a horizontal line placed below a letter (ִ◌ַ) and designating the open vowel a /a/.
• perispomene (Noun) The circumflex ⟨◌͂⟩, a diacritical mark used in the polytonic script of Greek.
• ring (Noun) A solid object in the shape of a circle.; In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
• ring (Noun) Short for webring.
• ring (Noun) A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
• ring (Noun) An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation.
• rocker (Noun) The breve below as in ḫ.
• rough breathing (Noun) The sound equivalent to an initial "h" before a vowel or an "r" in Ancient Greek.
• segol (Noun) A Hebrew niqqud diacritical mark (ִ◌ֶ) in the form of three dots arranged as an upside-down triangle, pronounced in Modern Hebrew as /e/.
• shva (Noun) A Hebrew nikud vowel sign written as two vertical dots beneath a letter, in Israeli Hebrew indicating either the phoneme /e/ or the complete absence of a vowel.
• slash (Noun) Something resembling such a mark:; The slash mark: the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩.
• slash (Noun) Something resembling such a mark:; The slash mark: the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩.; Any similar typographical mark, such as the backslash ⟨\⟩.
• slash (Noun) Slash fiction; fan fiction focused on homoerotic pairing of fictional characters.
• slash (Verb) To write slash fiction.
• slash (Noun) A slash pine, which grows in such (swampy) areas.
• solidus (Noun) Various medieval and early modern coins or units of account; A Roman ~23k gold coin introduced by Diocletian in AD 301 and called by that name, but reissued at a slightly lower weight by Constantine I.
• solidus (Noun) Various medieval and early modern coins or units of account; Its successor Byzantine coins, from the eleventh century onward of progressively debased weight and purity.
• solidus (Noun) Various medieval and early modern coins or units of account; Synonym of sol or sou: a Carolingian unit of account equivalent to a solidus of silver.
• solidus (Noun) Various medieval and early modern coins or units of account; Synonym of soldo: the silver coins of various Italian states.
• solidus (Noun) Various medieval and early modern coins or units of account; Synonym of shilling: an English unit of account and, following the Tudor dynasty, silver coin.
• solidus (Noun) Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩, originally (UK) in its use as the shilling mark and now its formal designation by the ISO and Unicode.
• solidus (Noun) The line in a phase diagram marking the temperatures and pressures below which a given substance is a stable solid.
• strikethrough (Verb) Alternative form of strike through
• stroke (Noun) A movement similar to that of hitting.; One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished.; The rower nearest the stern of the boat, the movement of whose oar sets the rhythm for the other rowers; the position in the boat occupied by this rower.
• stroke (Noun) A movement similar to that of hitting.; One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished.; A movement of the arms and legs which propels a swimmer through the water; a specific combination of such movements, constituting a swimming style.
• stroke (Noun) A single movement of a paintbrush, chisel, pen, pencil, or similar implement; a line or mark made by such an implement.; A line making up a written character.
• stroke (Verb) Followed by out or through: to draw a line or lines through (text) to indicate that it is deleted; to cancel, to strike or strike out.
• sukun (Noun) A diacritic (ـْ) used in the Arabic abjad to mark the absence of a vowel.
• tenten (Noun) A diacritic (゛) used with Japanese kana to mark a consonant as voiced.
• tečka (Noun) A dot diacritic (used to mark consonantal palatalisation).
• tilde (Noun) A diacritical mark ⟨˜⟩ placed above a letter to modify its pronunciation.; In Spanish, ⟨ñ⟩ is a palatalized ⟨n⟩, for example in ⟨cañón⟩.
• tilde (Noun) A diacritical mark ⟨˜⟩ placed above a letter to modify its pronunciation.; Another name for the Vietnamese tone mark dấu ngã, which is placed above a vowel to indicate a creaky rising tone (thanh ngã).
• tilde (Noun) A diacritical mark ⟨˜⟩ placed above a letter to modify its pronunciation.; Another name for apex, a curved diacritic used in the 17th century to mark final nasalization in the early Vietnamese alphabet. It was an adoption of the Portuguese tilde.
• tilde (Noun) A symbol ⟨~⟩, with various names and uses, also known as swung dash or wave dash. In the computer industry, various other names may be used, such as squiggle and twiddle.; A punctuation mark that indicates range (from a number to another number). This use is common in Asia, where the symbol in this case is also called a wave dash.
• titlo (Noun) The character ◌҃, which serves as a diacritical mark in Old Cyrillic.
• tittle (Noun) Any small dot, stroke, or diacritical mark, especially if part of a letter, or if a letter-like abbreviation; in particular, the dots over the Latin letters i and j.
• tittle (Verb) To chatter.
• tonos (Noun) The Modern Greek stress-marking diacritic: ⟨ ΄ ⟩, written atop a vowel in a given word’s stressed syllable.
• trema (Noun) A diacritic consisting of two dots ( ¨ ) placed over a letter, used among other things to indicate umlaut or diaeresis.
• triangular colon (Noun) A diacritical mark (ː), used in IPA, consisting of two triangles, and marking the preceding phoneme as long.
• umlaut (Noun) The umlaut process (as above) that occurred historically in Germanic languages whereby back vowels became front vowels when followed by syllable containing a front vocoid (e.g. Germanic lūsiz > Old English lȳs(i) > Modern English lice).
• umlaut (Noun) A vowel so assimilated.
• umlaut (Noun) The diacritical mark ( ¨ ) placed over a vowel when it indicates a (rounded) front vowel
• umlaut (Noun) Synonym of diaeresis
• underdot (Noun) A dot placed below a letter, as a diacritical mark.
• varia (Noun) Alternative form of baria (“Greek diacritic”).
• vinculum (Noun) Any symbol used to group some of the terms in an expression, indicating that that part of the calculation should be done before other parts, or that the Roman numeral underneath should be multiplied by 1,000.
• vinculum (Noun) A horizontal line over the top of some of the terms in an expression, indicating that that part of the calculation is to be done before other parts.
• vinculum (Noun) A horizontal line over the top of some of the terms in an expression, indicating that that part of the calculation is to be done before other parts.; Specifically, the horizontal line between the numerator and denominator in a fraction.
• vinculum (Noun) A ligament that limits the movement of an organ or part.
• virama (Noun) A diacritic used in most writing systems of the Indian subcontinent to signify the lack of an inherent vowel.
• ümlaut (Noun) Misspelling of umlaut.
• čiriklo (Noun) A háček (marking palatalisation when written atop a consonant, iotation when written atop a vowel).
• ~ (Character) Written on a letter, usually a vowel, in place of an omitted n or m.
• ◌̀ (Character) Used to indicate that the suffix -ed is pronounced with a schwa: lookèd (IPA /ˈlʊkəd/); past-tense learned vs adjective learnèd. Often used for metrical reasons.
• ◌̀ (Character) Sometimes used for secondary stress in glossaries that use ◌́ for primary stress when full pronunciations are not given.
• ◌̀ (Character) Retained in foreign (mostly French) loan words, particularly when unassimilated: à la carte, crème brûlée, pièce de résistance, pied-à-terre, tête-à-tête, vis-à-vis.
• ◌̀ (Character) An affectation in some proper names: e.g. Ketèlbey.
• ◌́ (Character) Used on loan words to mark e's (mostly final) that are pronounced rather than silent, e.g. animé, café, exposé, maté, resumé, paté, saké; Malé, Pokémon. (Cf. expose, mate, resume, pate, sake, male.)
• ◌́ (Character) Used in glossaries, such as for Latinate technical terms or Classical names, to mark stressed syllables when full pronunciations are not given, as the pronunciation is largely predictable once stress-placement is known.
• ◌́ (Character) Used to show an unexpectedly stressed syllable, or where the choice of stress is metrically important, e.g. idiosyncratic caléndar; noun rébel as opposed to verb rebél; áll trádes as a spondee rather than iamb.
• ◌́ (Character) Retained in foreign loan words (mostly French é), particularly when unassimilated
• ◌̂ (Character) Retained in foreign loan words (mostly French): château, crème brûlée, crêpe, maître d', mêlée, papier-mâché, rôle, tête-à-tête.
• ◌̄ (Character) Placed over a vowel letter to indicate that the syllable is long. Also used alone to mark stress in a metrical foot or verse: see ⟨ˉ⟩.
• ◌̆ (Character) The breve, used to mark a vowel letter as having its 'short' sound: ⟨ă⟩ /æ/, ⟨ĕ⟩ /ɛ/, ⟨ĭ⟩ /ɪ/, ⟨ŏ⟩ /ɒ/, ⟨ŭ⟩ /ʌ/.
• ◌̈ (Character) Retained in foreign (mostly French) loan words where vowels are pronounced separately: naïve (or naive), Noël (or Noel), but also for umlaut in German Götterdämmerung, Führer.
• ◌̧ (Character) Retained in foreign loan words (mostly French ç): façade (or facade).
• ◌͝◌ (Character) Used to mark the digraph ⟨oo⟩ as having its 'short' sound: ⟨o͝o⟩ /ʊ/.
• ◌͞◌ (Character) Used to mark the digraph ⟨oo⟩ as having its 'long' sound: ⟨o͞o⟩ /uː/.
• ◌͞◌ (Character) Ties together the pronunciation-key digraphs a͞a, a͞e, a͞o, e͞w, c͞i, s͞i, t͞h, t͞i.
• ◌͟◌ (Character) Ties together the pronunciation-key digraphs a͟i and c͟h.
• ◌͡◌ (Character) Used to mark digraphs such as the consonants ⟨c͜h, n͡g, s͜h, t͜h, z͜h⟩ for IPA /t͡ʃ, ŋ, ʃ, θ, ʒ/, ⟨ᴋ͜ʜ⟩ for Scottish /x/, or the rhotic vowels ⟨a͡r, e͡r⟩ for IPA /ɑɹ, ɜɹ/.
• ◌᷍◌ (Character) Ties together the pronunciation-key digraphs a᷍a, a᷍i, a᷍u, e᷍e, e᷍i, e᷍u, o᷍i.
• ◌᷵ (Character) Marks a vowel as a schwa.
• ◌᷵ (Character) A partially or optionally reduced vowel, e.g. fa᷵‧tal′i‧ty, de᷵‧pend′, pro᷵‧pose′, for′mu᷵‧late.

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