What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Circumflex vs Chevron - What's the difference?

circumflex | chevron |

As nouns the difference between circumflex and chevron

is that circumflex is (orthography) a diacritical mark () placed over a vowel in certain languages to change its pronunciation; also used in combination with certain consonants]] in esperanto to create [[w:esperanto_orthography|additional letters while chevron is a v-shaped pattern; used in architecture, and as an insignia of military or police rank, on the sleeve.

As verbs the difference between circumflex and chevron

is that circumflex is to mark or pronounce with a circumflex while chevron is to form or be formed into chevrons.

As an adjective circumflex

is having a mark.

circumflex

English

Noun

(es)
  • (orthography) a diacritical mark () placed over a vowel in certain languages to change its pronunciation; also used in combination with certain consonants]] in Esperanto to create [[w:Esperanto_orthography, additional letters

    • Adjective

  • having a mark
    • ê is e circumflex .
  • curving around
    • The circumflex coronary artery

    Verb

    (es)
  • to mark or pronounce with a circumflex
    • to circumflex a syllable
    (Walker)

    chevron

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
    • 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.
  • 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 (), 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 ), 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.

    External links

    * (wikipedia "chevron") *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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:
    • 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 1560234407, 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...
    ----