Look up: diacritic

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   diacritic
   [adj] - capable of distinguishing
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   diacritic
   a mark added to a letter to indicate a phonetic or semantic value different from that of the unmarked letter Category: Language and literature
   Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition
   
   
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   diacritic
   Diacritical ... Distinguishing; diagnostic; allowing of distinction. ... Origin: G. Diakritikos, able to distinguish ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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   diacritic
   diacritical adjective capable of distinguishing; `students having superior diacritic powers`; `the diacritic elements in culture`- S.F.Nadel
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   Diacritic
   A `diacritic` or `diacritical mark`, also called an `accent`, is a small sign added to a letter to alter pronunciation or to distinguish between similar words. The term derives from Greek διακÃ?Â?ιÃ?„ικÃ?Å’Ã?‚ (`diakritikos`, `distinguishing`). `Diacritic` is both adjective and noun, whereas `diacritical` is only an adjective. A diacritical mark can appear above or below a letter, or in some other position. Its main usage is to change the phone...
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   diacritic
   (di″ә-krit´ik) diagnostic; distinguishing.
   Found on http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns
   
   
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   Diacritic
   • (a.) Alt. of Diacritical
   Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning
   
   
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   diacritic
   (from the article `alphabet`) ...the absence of vowel letters was not strongly felt in Arabic (as in Hebrew and other Semitic languages), for teaching purposes and for correct ... ...and in the Anglo-Saxon adoption of the Latin alphabet. In more recent times the most common way of representing sounds that cannot be represented ... Ar...
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   diacritic
   Distinguishing; diagnostic; allowing of distinction. [G. diakritikos, able to distinguish]
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    diacritic
    A modifying mark on a character. For example, the accent marks in Latin script (acute, tilde, and ogonek) and the tone marks in Thai. Synonymous with accent.
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