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A diacritical mark or character used in writing to indicate the place of stress (spoken accent), or to indicate the nature or quality of the vowel marked (such as long vowel versus short vowel).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: strictly
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
Examples
- Written Spanish uses acute accent marks very precisely, to show where the stress falls whenever it does not follow the default patterns; this practice is part of the highly phonemic nature of Spanish orthography.
- The name of the French painter Paul Cézanne is written with an acute accent mark.
- The Italian word è (which means "is") is written with a grave accent mark.
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Broader terms: diacritic, diacritical mark
Any diacritical mark.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
Examples
- Student: Why does the word Čech have an accent mark on it? Teacher: That mark is called a háček or caron. It tells the reader that the letter sounds like [ch] as in "church", not like [k] as in "carrot" or [s] as in "celery".
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: diacritic, diacritical mark
Antonyms: none provided
A mark used to represent specific stress on a note.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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A mark placed after a letter designating a note of music to indicate the octave in which it occurs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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A prime symbol.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: accent
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: diacritical mark, diacritic
Narrower terms: stress mark, acute accent, acute, ague, grave accent, grave
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