chevron

chevron englannista suomeksi

1. polviorsi

2. hihamerkki

0. Substantiivi

1. väkänen; natsa insignia of rank

2. polviorsi

3. turvavälimerkintä

3. Verbi

chevron englanniksi

1. A V-shaped pattern; used in architecture, and as an insignia of military or police rank, on the sleeve.

2. A wide inverted V placed on a shield.

(cot)

3. One of the V-shaped markings on the surface of roads used to indicate minimum distances between vehicles.

4. 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.

5. A guillemet, either of the punctuation marks “«” or “»”, used in several languages to indicate passages of speech. Similar to typical marks used in the English language such as ““” and “””.

6. An bracket, either used as a typographic or a scientific symbol.

7. A (l), a diacritical mark that may resemble an inverted circumflex.

8. {{quote-book|en|year=1953|author=William James Entwistle|title=Aspects of Language|publisher=Faber and Faber|pageurl=http://books.google.co.uk/books?ei=7JtOT6HjFKW70QWT9-CeBQ&id=IgMfAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22chevrons%22+diacritic&q=%22chevrons%22search_anchor|page=107

9. 1976, Stephen J. Lieberman, ''The Sumerian Loanwords in Old-Babylonian Akkadian'' (''Harvard Semitic Studies'', issue 22; ''published by'' Scholars Press ''for'' Museum|Harvard Semitic Museum), page 66

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.

10. A wedge-shaped sediment deposit observed on coastlines and continental interiors around the world.

11. To form or be formed into chevrons

12. 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.

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14. {{quote-book|en|year=1983|author=Allen Sillitoe|title=The Lost Flying Boat|isbn=0246122366|page=118

15. {{quote-book|en|year=2003|author=Felice Picano|title=A House on the Ocean, a House on the Bay|isbn=1560234407|page=55

16. rafter

17. (l)