Chevron vs Epa - What's the difference?
chevron | epa |
A V-shaped pattern; used in architecture, and as an insignia of military or police rank, on the sleeve
(heraldiccharge) A wide inverted V placed on a shield.
(chiefly, British) 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.
A guillemet, either of the punctuation marks “ ”.
(informal) A , a diacritical mark that may resemble an inverted circumflex.
* 1953 , William James Entwistle, Aspects of Language (),
* 1976 , Stephen J. Lieberman, The Sumerian Loanwords in Old-Babylonian Akkadian'' (''Harvard Semitic Studies'', issue 22; ''published by'' Scholars Press ''for ),
To form or be formed into chevrons
* 1963 , Lucien Victor Gewiss, "Process and Devices for Chevroning Pliable Sheet Material," US Patent 3397261 [http://www.google.com/patents?id=XflXAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA11-IA4], page 14:
*:...the sheet to be chevroned locks itself into the furrow.
* 1983 , Allen Sillitoe, The Lost Flying Boat , ISBN 0246122366, page 118:
* 2003 , Felice Picano, A House on the Ocean, a House on the Bay , ISBN 1560234407, page 55:
As a noun chevron
is a v-shaped pattern; used in architecture, and as an insignia of military or police rank, on the sleeve.As a verb chevron
is to form or be formed into chevrons.As an interjection epa is
(protest or reprimand).chevron
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
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- 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.
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.
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* (wikipedia "chevron") *Verb
(en verb)- 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...