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dieresis
or 徱···
[ dahy-er-uh-sis ]
noun
plural diereses
- Linguistics, Phonetics. the separation of two adjacent vowels, dividing one syllable into two.
- Phonetics, Orthography. a diacritic (¨) placed over the second of two adjacent vowels to indicate separate pronunciation, as in one spelling of the older forms Բï and öٱ: no longer widely used in English.
- Prosody. the division made in a line or verse by coincidence of the end of a foot and the end of a word.
dieresis
/ daɪˈɛrɪsɪs; ˌdaɪəˈrɛtɪk /
noun
- a variant spelling of diaeresis
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Derived Forms
- dieretic, adjective
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Other yvlogs From
- 徱··· [dahy-, uh, -, ret, -ik], adjective
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Example Sentences
But those at The New Yorker are something else entirely, a species nova that mutated into existence in 1925 and would hurl itself off a cliff rather than forsake the dieresis in “coöperate.”
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Since the ligatures “æ” and “œ” are used consistently, dieresis can be assumed even when not explicitly indicated.
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At "anapest" it was a noticeable frown, at "apothem" it became very pronounced, and at "dieresis" his shaggy red brows nearly covered his eyes, he was frowning so hard.
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