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单词 diacritical
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Definition of diacritical in English:

diacritical

adjective ˌdʌɪəˈkrɪtɪk(ə)lˌdaɪəˈkrɪdək(ə)l
  • (of a mark or sign) serving to indicate different pronunciations of a letter above or below which it is written.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The present orthographic system was introduced in the fourteenth century by the religious reformer Jan Hus, who instituted a system of diacritical markings to eliminate consonant clusters.
    • Here are some useful sites for anyone needing to display diacritical marks, mathematical symbols, etc.
    • Slovak, like other Slavic languages, has diacritical marks that govern the pronunciation of both consonants and vowels.
    • In modern written Vietnamese, which uses the romanized system of writing introduced by European missionaries, the tones are indicated by diacritical marks, or marks written above and below the vowel in each syllable.
    • Where necessary, I have adapted Italian and Latin texts according to modern convention, spelling out abbreviations, adding diacritical marks, and replacing u for v and i for j.

Derivatives

  • diacritically

  • adverb
    • The key thing that you need to remember is that you can't search for diacritically marked words by simple roman input.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Punctuation marks that we consider standard (such as exclamation points, the dollar sign, or square or curly brackets) are often replaced by other symbols on foreign keyboards (such as the country's currency mark or diacritically marked letters that aren't used in English).
      • But it would be very inconvenient to insist on such an encoding for Turkish, in which diacritically marked letters have their own separate positions in the alphabet.
      • The Scandinavian languages, by contrast, treat the diacritics as new and separate letters of the alphabet, and sort them after z. Other languages treat diacritically marked letters as variants of the underlying letter, but alphabetize them following the unmarked letter.
      • Keep in mind that the bibliography is diacritically sensitive: theologie will not return records that have théologie.

Rhymes

analytical, apolitical, critical, cryptanalytical, eremitical, geopolitical, hypercritical, hypocritical, political, socio-political, subcritical

Definition of diacritical in US English:

diacritical

adjectiveˌdīəˈkridək(ə)lˌdaɪəˈkrɪdək(ə)l
  • (of a mark or sign) serving to indicate different pronunciations of a letter above or below which it is written.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Where necessary, I have adapted Italian and Latin texts according to modern convention, spelling out abbreviations, adding diacritical marks, and replacing u for v and i for j.
    • Slovak, like other Slavic languages, has diacritical marks that govern the pronunciation of both consonants and vowels.
    • In modern written Vietnamese, which uses the romanized system of writing introduced by European missionaries, the tones are indicated by diacritical marks, or marks written above and below the vowel in each syllable.
    • The present orthographic system was introduced in the fourteenth century by the religious reformer Jan Hus, who instituted a system of diacritical markings to eliminate consonant clusters.
    • Here are some useful sites for anyone needing to display diacritical marks, mathematical symbols, etc.
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