Crossword-Solution: DIACRITICAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Diacritical | a. | That separates or distinguishes; -- applied to points or marks used to distinguish letters of similar form, or different sounds of the same letter, as, a, /, a, /, /, etc. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| diaeresis | 2 answers |
| distinguishing | 18 answers |
| distinctive | 55 answers |
| ACCENT ___ | 57 answers |
| apart | 75 answers |
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Kind of apple
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A
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T
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DIACRITICAL (5)
Yet the fact that our dictionaries supply diacritical marks for some thirty vowels sounds to indicate the pronunciation of the words of our every-day speech, shows how we let memory and guessing do the work that might reasonably be demanded of a really complete alphabet.
Increased scale and consequently less homogenous practical experiences forced the Hebrew scribes to add diacritical marks indicating vowels.
Chamberlain EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF JAPANESE AND PHILOLOGY AT THE IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, JAPAN 1912 Transcriber's Notes: A few diacritical marks have had to be removed, but Chamberlain did not use macrons to represent lengthened vowels.
Either the reader knows Arabic, in which case Greek letters, italics and "upper case," diacritical points and similar typographic oddities are, as a rule with some exceptions, unnecessary; or he does not know Arabic, when none of these expedients will be of the least use to him.
Finally the Maghribi (Moorish) hand differs in form and diacritical points from the characters used further east almost as much as German running hand does from English.