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dieresis
or 诲颈路补别谤路别路蝉颈蝉
[ dahy-er-uh-sis ]
noun
plural diereses
- Linguistics, Phonetics. the separation of two adjacent vowels, dividing one syllable into two.
- Phonetics, Orthography. a diacritic (篓) placed over the second of two adjacent vowels to indicate separate pronunciation, as in one spelling of the older forms 苍补茂惫别 and 肠辞枚辫别谤补迟别: 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
/ da瑟藞蓻r瑟s瑟s; 藢da瑟蓹藞r蓻t瑟k /
noun
- a variant spelling of diaeresis
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Derived Forms
- dieretic, adjective
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 诲颈路别路谤别迟路颈肠 [dahy-, uh, -, ret, -ik], adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
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Example Sentences
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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 鈥渃o枚perate.鈥
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Since the ligatures 鈥溍︹ and 鈥溑撯 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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