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Intrepid vs Breve - What's the difference?

intrepid | breve |

As an adjective intrepid

is fearless; bold; brave.

As a noun breve is

a semicircular diacritical mark (˘) placed above a vowel, commonly used to mark its quantity as short.

intrepid

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Fearless; bold; brave.
  • :* 2000 — Lennard Bickel, Shackleton's Forgotten Men: The Untold Tale of an Antarctic Tragedy
  • :*: Fewer than 70 years earlier, the intrepid James Cook in his ship Resolution had been the first explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle.

    • Derived terms

    * intrepidity * intrepidness * intrepidly

    Related terms

    * trepidation

    See also

    * fearless * unafraid * courageous

    breve

    English

    (wikipedia breve)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (orthography, printing) A semicircular diacritical mark () placed above a vowel, commonly used to mark its quantity as short.
  • (music, UK) A double whole note.
  • (legal) Any writ or precept under seal, issued out of any court.
  • The great ant thrush of Sumatra (, which has a very short tail.

    • Related terms

    * brevity * brief * semibreve

    See also

    * half note * longa * whole note

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