From en.wiktionary.org:
[Chevron]
** English
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Etymology
From [en], from [en], the mark so called because it looks like rafters of a
shallow roof, from [en], from [en], the likely connection between goats and
rafters being the animal's horns.
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A V-shaped pattern; used in architecture , and as an insignia of military or police rank , on the sleeve .
2. [en] A wide inverted V placed on a shield.
3. [en] One of the V-shaped markings on the surface of road s used to indicate minimum distances between vehicle s.
4. * 2009 , Jamie Dunn, _Truckie has a point_ , Sunshine Coast Daily Online, June 13, 2009.
5. *: 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.
6. A guillemet , either of the punctuation marks “ <big> « </big> ” or “ <big> » </big> ”, used in several language s to indicate passage s of speech . Similar to typical quotation mark s used in the English language such as “ <big> “ </big> ” and “ <big> ” </big> ”.
7. An angle bracket , either used as a typographic or a scientific symbol.
8. [en] A [en] , a diacritical mark that may resemble an inverted circumflex.
9. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1953 | author=William James Entwistle | title=Aspects of Language | publisher=w:Faber and Faber | pageurl=http://books.google.co.uk/books?ei=7JtOT6HjFKW70QWT9-CeBQ&id=IgMfAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22chevrons%22+diacritic&q=%22chevrons%22#search_anchor | page=107
|passage=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.}}
1. * 1976 , Stephen J. Lieberman, _The Sumerian Loanwords in Old-Babylonian Akkadian_ ( _Harvard Semitic Studies_ , issue 22; _published by_ Scholars Press _for_ 吴语: Semitic Museum ), <span class="plainlinks"> page 66 (see http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gCUOAAAAYAAJ&q=%22chevron%22&dq=%22chevron%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=b5ZOT92aNOGj0QXBgvidBQ&redir_esc=y) </span>
2. *: The symbol ř (“r” with a CHEVRON ) is used for a phoneme which sounds like Czech ř (as in Dvořák), i.e. a voiced alveolar flap. The presence of the CHEVRON has no effect on the index numbers used in transliteration; cf. 2.058.
3. A wedge -shaped sediment deposit observed on coastlines and continental interiors around the world.
4. [en] .
**** Usage notes
- In heraldry, broken chevron s are represented and described in blazon in a variety of ways: see examples at [en] .
**** Synonyms
- [rank insignia] [en]
- [computing] [en]
- [typographic and mathematical symbols] [en]
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Related terms
- [en]
**** Translations
[V-shaped pattern]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Finnish: [fi] ; [fi] [insignia of rank]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el] [insignia of rank]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Polish: [pl]
- Russian: [ru] [insignia of rank]
- Spanish: [es]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[heraldry: wide inverted V]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[V-shaped marking on the surface of road]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Polish: [pl]
[trans-bottom]
[guillemet]
[diacritical mark]
**** See also
{{col|en |echelon#Noun }}
**** Further reading
- [pedia]
- [Chevron]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. To form or be formed into chevrons
2. * 1963 , Lucien Victor Gewiss, "Process and Devices for Chevroning Pliable Sheet Material," US Patent 3397261 see http://www.google.com/patents?id=XflXAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA11-IA4 , page 14:
3. *: ...the sheet to be CHEVRONED locks itself into the furrow.
4. * {{ quote-book
|en |year=1973 |author=w:Thomas Pynchon |title=w:Gravity's Rainbow |section=
|passage= ... as a thick finger with a gob of very slippery jelly or cream
comes sliding down the crack now towards his asshole, CHEVRONING the hairs
along like topo lines up a river valley...}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1983 | author=Allen Sillitoe | title=The Lost Flying Boat | isbn=0246122366 | page=118
|passage=Bull fixed the claw under a batten, strained like a sailor at the
capstan, shirt off, arms CHEVRONED by elaborate tattoos.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2003 | author=Felice Picano | title=A House on the Ocean, a House on the Bay | isbn=1560234407 | page=55
|passage=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...}}
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** French
*** Etymology
[fr], from [fr], from [la], cf. also [la]. Ultimately from [fr].
*** Pronunciation
- [fr-IPA]
- [fr]
- [fr]
*** Noun
[m]
1. rafter
2. [fr] [en]
**** Related terms
- [fr]
**** Descendants
- [en]
- [ru]
*** Further reading
- [R:fr:TLFi]
[fr]