Used in a Sentence

diacritic

How to use diacritic in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for diacritic.

Editorial note

Drop some of those diacritic stacks into Twitter and check out the mayhem.

Examples8
Definitions2
Parts of speech2

Quick take

a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of diacritic gathered in one view.

noun

a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation

adjective

capable of distinguishing; "students having superior diacritic powers"; "the diacritic elements in culture"- S.F.Nadel

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for diacritic.

noun

a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation

adjective

capable of distinguishing; "students having superior diacritic powers"; "the diacritic elements in culture"- S.F.Nadel

Example sentences

1

Drop some of those diacritic stacks into Twitter and check out the mayhem.

2

They should have specified Turkish alphabet to use ı and a diacritic to make the dotted one.

3

There are a lot of diacritics to choose from if you don't know all their names, and that's assuming you even catch on that it's supposed to be a diacritic.

4

In any case, most computer users in Israel don't even know how to add diacritic marks, so I don't see anyone typing such an address in their browser.

5

∑ looks like a sideways 'W", the trademark symbol is just a circled r, and the diacritic marks fit the character you'd commonly associate them with.

6

There are also some languages that routinely use more than one stacked diacritic on letters and encoding every possible precomposed variant would be at least a little bit silly.

7

I realized I probably write more curly braces than accented characters during the day and switched to using an US-International style keyboard layout that puts the diacritic characters under the Alt Gr key.

8

There are a lot of code points that would need to be filtered out if you do this - Noncharacters, Control codes, High/Low surrogates, Private-Use, Whitespace, and then of course the ones that mutate other code points in the sequence - Bidirectional, Combining characters / diacritical marks.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use diacritic in a sentence?

Drop some of those diacritic stacks into Twitter and check out the mayhem.

What does diacritic mean?

a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation

What part of speech is diacritic?

diacritic is commonly used as noun, adjective.