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diacritic::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | diacritical |
students having superior diacritic powers.
the diacritic elements in culture.
diacritic::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | diacritical mark |
| Type of | mark |
| Has types | accent mark, breve, cedilla, circumflex, diaeresis, dieresis, hacek, macron, tilde, umlaut, wedge, accent |
| Derivation | diacritical |
Examples of diacritic
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I look forward to a new dawn of posting diacritic marks and other stuff as well.
From the guardian.co.uk
It is, however, unsuitable for use as a diacritic, as it is a spacing character.
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Irish spelling makes use today of only one diacritic, and formerly used a second.
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This has no diacritic form, but is considered inherent in every consonant letter.
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As a result, a diacritic symbol, hamza, was introduced to represent this sound.
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Ogonek is mentioned as a diacritic, and the article ogonek lists the Polish usage.
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Counting syllables with this diacritic, the script represents 1,164 syllables.
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Uniquely, however, the position of this diacritic is varied to represent tone.
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They have the same alphabetical ordering as their non-diacritic counterparts.
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- Capable of distinguishing; "students having superior diacritic powers"; "the diacritic elements in culture"- S.F.Nadel
- Diacritical mark: a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation
- (Diacritics (Greek alphabet)) Greek orthography has used a variety of diacritics starting in the Hellenistic period. ...
- (Diacritics (journal)) Diacritics is an academic journal founded in 1971 at Cornell University. Articles serve to review important recent literature in the field of literary criticism and have covered topics in gender studies, political theory, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and other areas of ...
- A mark such as an acute, grave or circumflex accent, a cedilla, or an umlaut, which is added to a letter to give it a special phonetic value. Characters with diacritics can be typed on standard computer keyboards by using the Alt Key in combination with a sequence of numbers. ...
- A written symbol which is structurally dependent upon another symbol; that is, a symbol that does not occur independently, but always occurs with and is visually positioned in relation to another character, usually above or below. Diacritics are also sometimes referred to as accents. ...
- A mark, such as an accent, underline, or bar, which is added to a written symbol to indicate an alteration of how the symbol should be pronounced.
- An accent or change to a normal alphabetical letter to differentiate its pronunciation. Click here for examples.
- A small mark (such as an accent mark) added above, below, before, or after a base character to modify its pronunciation or significance.
