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guillemet
English
Etymology
From French guillemet, diminutive form of the name Guillaume (“William”), named after French typecutter Guillaume Le Bé (1525–1598) who supposedly invented the marks.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??i.(j)??me(?)/, /???l.??m?t/
Noun
guillemet (plural guillemets)
- Either of the punctuation marks « or », used in several languages to indicate passages of speech. Similar to typical quotation marks used in the English language such as “ and ”.
Synonyms
- angle quote
- chevron (Typography)
- duckfoot quote
- double angle quotation mark (Unicode name)
Translations
References
Further reading
- guillemet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Etymology
Diminutive form of the name Guillaume (“William”), named after French typecutter Guillaume Le Bé (1525–1598), 1677.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ij.m?/
- Rhymes: -?
- Homophone: guillemets
Noun
guillemet m (plural guillemets)
- quotation mark
- guillemet
Usage notes
In French typography, a space is put after the opening guillemet and before the closing one. This rule is followed in France and most of the time in Canadian usage but not necessary elsewhere and not necessary on the internet, even on French websites; in Switzerland, no space is required in punctuation.
Derived terms
- entre guillemets
Further reading
- “guillemet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
guillemet From the web:
chevron
English
Alternative forms
- cheveron (dated)
Etymology
Borrowed from French chevron (“rafter, chevron”), the mark so called because it looks like rafters of a shallow roof, from Vulgar Latin *capri?, from Latin caper (“goat”), the likely connection between goats and rafters being the animal's angular hind legs.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???v??n/
Noun
chevron (plural chevrons)
- A V-shaped pattern; used in architecture, and as an insignia of military or police rank, on the sleeve
- (heraldry) A wide inverted V placed on a shield.
- (chiefly Britain) One of the V-shaped markings on the surface of roads used to indicate minimum distances between vehicles.
- 2009, Jamie Dunn, Truckie has a point, Sunshine Coast Daily Online, June 13, 2009.
- I told you that in fact they were called chevrons and it was an exercise by the transport department to teach us to stay two chevrons behind the car in front.
- 2009, Jamie Dunn, Truckie has a point, Sunshine Coast Daily Online, June 13, 2009.
- A guillemet, either of the punctuation marks “«” or “»”, used in several languages to indicate passages of speech. Similar to typical quotation marks used in the English language such as ““” and “””.
- An angle bracket, either used as a typographic or a scientific symbol.
- (informal) A há?ek, a diacritical mark that may resemble an inverted circumflex.
- 1953, William James Entwistle, Aspects of Language (Faber and Faber), page 107
- It is pertinent to remember, however, that one of the greatest phoneticians, Jan Hus, used diacritics (in the form of points, which have later become chevrons in his own language), and that his alphabet is the most satisfactory for eastern Europe, since it has been officially adopted by the languages which use the Latin script.
- 1976, Stephen J. Lieberman, The Sumerian Loanwords in Old-Babylonian Akkadian (Harvard Semitic Studies, issue 22; published by Scholars Press for Harvard Semitic Museum), page 66
- The symbol ? (“r” with a chevron) is used for a phoneme which sounds like Czech ? (as in Dvo?ák), i.e. a voiced alveolar flap. The presence of the chevron has no effect on the index numbers used in transliteration; cf. 2.058.
- 1953, William James Entwistle, Aspects of Language (Faber and Faber), page 107
Synonyms
- (computing): wicket
- (Typographic and mathematical symbols): angle bracket
Translations
Further reading
- chevron on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Chevron in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Verb
chevron (third-person singular simple present chevrons, present participle chevroning, simple past and past participle chevroned)
- To form or be formed into chevrons
- 1963, Lucien Victor Gewiss, "Process and Devices for Chevroning Pliable Sheet Material," US Patent 3397261 [1], page 14:
- ...the sheet to be chevroned locks itself into the furrow.
- 1983, Allen Sillitoe, The Lost Flying Boat, ?ISBN, page 118:
- Bull fixed the claw under a batten, strained like a sailor at the capstan, shirt off, arms chevroned by elaborate tattoos.
- 2003, Felice Picano, A House on the Ocean, a House on the Bay, ?ISBN, page 55:
- Earlier, in glaring winter daylight, I'd first noticed thin lines chevroning off the edge of each eye into the taut skin of his cheeks...
- 1963, Lucien Victor Gewiss, "Process and Devices for Chevroning Pliable Sheet Material," US Patent 3397261 [1], page 14:
French
Etymology
From Old French, from Vulgar Latin *capri?, *capri?nem, from *capreus, cf. also caprone. Ultimately from Latin caper (“goat”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.v???/
Noun
chevron m (plural chevrons)
- rafter
- (heraldry) chevron
Related terms
- chèvre
Further reading
- “chevron” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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