Dieresis

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Linguistics A mark ( ¨ ) placed over the second of two adjacent vowels to indicate that they are to be pronounced as separate sounds rather than a diphthong, as in naïve.
  • n. Linguistics A mark ( ¨ ) placed over a vowel, such as the final vowel in Brontë, to indicate that the vowel is not silent.
  • n. Poetry A break or pause in a line of verse that occurs when the end of a word and the end of a metrical foot coincide.
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  • n. A diacritic ( ¨ ) placed over the second of two consecutive vowels to indicate that the second vowel is to be pronounced separately from the preceding vowel (as in the girls’ given name of Zoë). It does not indicate a diphthong, but rather that each vowel has its full quality, within the sound-context. Now an uncommon practice in English, but still used in some other languages (e.g. French: haïr, Dutch: ruïne).
  • n. Alternative form of diaeresis.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Same as diæresis.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The separate pronunciation of two vowels usually united as a diphthong; by extension of meaning, separate pronunciation of any two adjacent vowels, or the consequent division of one syllable into two. See dialysis and distraction, 8.
  • n. The sign (¨) regularly placed over the second of two contiguous vowels to indicate that they are pronounced separately; the same sign used for other purposes.
  • n. In prosody, the division made in a line or a verse by coincidence of the end of a foot and the end of a word; especially, such a division at the close of a colon or rhythmic series. It is strictly distinct from, but often included under, cesura (which see).
  • n. In pathology, a solution of continuity, as an ulcer or a wound.
  • n. In crustaceans, the division in the outer branch of the last pleopods.
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  • n. a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    diacritic    diacritical mark   
    Cross Reference
    umlaut   
    Variant
    diereses    diaeresis   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    trema   
     
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