chevron
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kápros
Proto-Italic *kapros
Latin caper
Latin *capreus
Vulgar Latin *capriō
Old French chevronbor.
Middle English cheveroun
English chevron
From Middle English cheveroun, from Old French chevron, the mark so called because it looks like rafters of a shallow roof, from Vulgar Latin *capriō, from Latin caper (“goat”), the likely connection between goats and rafters being the animal's horns.
Inflected forms:
form: chevrons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cheveron
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: chevrons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chevroning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chevroned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chevroned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: cheveron
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A V-shaped pattern; used in architecture, and as an insignia of military or police rank, on the sleeve.
pos: noun
gloss: A wide inverted V placed on a shield.
pos: noun
gloss: One of the V-shaped markings on the surface of roads used to indicate minimum distances between vehicles.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: 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.
gloss: 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 “””.
pos: noun
gloss: An angle bracket, either used as a typographic or a scientific symbol.
pos: noun
gloss: A háček, a diacritical mark that may resemble an inverted circumflex.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: 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.
The symbol ř (“r” with a chevron) is used for a phoneme which sounds like Czech ř (as in Dvořák), i.e. a voiced alveolar flap. The presence of the chevron has no effect on the index numbers used in transliteration; cf. 2.058.
gloss: A wedge-shaped sediment deposit observed on coastlines and continental interiors around the world.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of arrowhead (“horse jump obstacle”).
pos: noun
gloss: To form or be formed into chevrons
pos: verb
examples: ...the sheet to be chevroned locks itself into the furrow.
... as a thick finger with a gob of very slippery jelly or cream comes sliding down the crack now towards his asshole, chevroning the hairs along like topo lines up a river valley...
Bull fixed the claw under a batten, strained like a sailor at the capstan, shirt off, arms chevroned by elaborate tattoos.
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...
Synonyms: wicket
Related words: chevrony
echelon
Derived words: chevron bone
chevroned
chevronel
chevronelle
chevronny
chevronwise
per chevron
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