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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
chevron
noun
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▪ Between them the sea came in from two directions, sending a constantly renewed chevron of breakers toward the beach.
▪ Down one arm ran gold chevrons, denoting her length of service with the Regiment.
▪ His sleeves were rolled almost to the shoulder and the right one bore the three gold chevrons denoting his rank.
▪ Originally described: 1775 Colour: The body is predominantly yellow and white with black markings reminiscent of an off-centre chevron.
▪ Some carried standards, chevrons, gules and badges.
▪ The chevron is of silver lace with edging of dark blue facing colour.
▪ The arches are decorated with chevron ornament.
▪ They did not respond if the perceived direction of movement of the chevron was in the preferred direction.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Ordinary \Or"di*na*ry\, n.; pl. Ordinaries (-r[i^]z).

  1. (Law)

    1. (Roman Law) An officer who has original jurisdiction in his own right, and not by deputation.

    2. (Eng. Law) One who has immediate jurisdiction in matters ecclesiastical; an ecclesiastical judge; also, a deputy of the bishop, or a clergyman appointed to perform divine service for condemned criminals and assist in preparing them for death.

    3. (Am. Law) A judicial officer, having generally the powers of a judge of probate or a surrogate.

  2. The mass; the common run. [Obs.]

    I see no more in you than in the ordinary Of nature's salework.
    --Shak.

  3. That which is so common, or continued, as to be considered a settled establishment or institution. [R.]

    Spain had no other wars save those which were grown into an ordinary.
    --Bacon.

  4. Anything which is in ordinary or common use.

    Water buckets, wagons, cart wheels, plow socks, and other ordinaries.
    --Sir W. Scott.

  5. A dining room or eating house where a meal is prepared for all comers, at a fixed price for the meal, in distinction from one where each dish is separately charged; a table d'h[^o]te; hence, also, the meal furnished at such a dining room.
    --Shak.

    All the odd words they have picked up in a coffeehouse, or a gaming ordinary, are produced as flowers of style.
    --Swift.

    He exacted a tribute for licenses to hawkers and peddlers and to ordinaries.
    --Bancroft.

  6. (Her.) A charge or bearing of simple form, one of nine or ten which are in constant use. The bend, chevron, chief, cross, fesse, pale, and saltire are uniformly admitted as ordinaries. Some authorities include bar, bend sinister, pile, and others. See Subordinary. In ordinary.

    1. In actual and constant service; statedly attending and serving; as, a physician or chaplain in ordinary. An ambassador in ordinary is one constantly resident at a foreign court.

    2. (Naut.) Out of commission and laid up; -- said of a naval vessel.

      Ordinary of the Mass (R. C. Ch.), the part of the Mass which is the same every day; -- called also the canon of the Mass.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chevron

late 14c., from Old French chevron "rafter; chevron" (13c.), the accent mark so called because it looks like rafters of a shallow roof, from Vulgar Latin *caprione, from Latin caper "goat" (see cab); the hypothetical connection between goats and rafters being the animal's angular hind legs. Compare Latin capreolus "props, stays, short pieces of timber for support," lit. "wild goat, chamoix."

Wiktionary
chevron

n. 1 A V-shaped pattern; used in architecture, and as an insignia of military or police rank, on the sleeve 2 (context heraldiccharge English) A wide inverted V placed on a shield. 3 (context chiefly British English) One of the V-shaped markings on the surface of roads used to indicate minimum distances between vehicles. 4 A guillemet, either of the punctuation marks “'''«'''” or “'''»'''”, used in several languages to indicate passages of speech. Similar to typical quotation marks used in the English language such as “'''“'''” and “'''”'''”. 5 (context informal English) A (l en háček), a diacritical mark that may resemble an inverted circumflex. vb. To form or be formed into chevrons

WordNet
chevron
  1. n. V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service; "they earned their stripes in Kuwait" [syn: stripe, stripes, grade insignia]

  2. an inverted V-shaped charge

Wikipedia
Chevron (insignia)

A chevron (also spelled cheveron, especially in older documents) is an inverted V-shaped pattern. The word is usually used in reference to a kind of fret in architecture, or to a badge or insignia used in military or police uniforms to indicate rank or length of service, or in heraldry and the designs of flags (see flag terminology). The symbol is also used on highway signs to guide drivers around curves.

Chevron (anatomy)

A chevron is one of a series of bones on the ventral (under) side of the tail in many reptiles, dinosaurs (such as Diplodocus; see picture), and some mammals such as kangaroos and manatees.

Their main function is to protect critical elements in the tail such as nerves and blood vessels from being damaged when the animal either supports its weight on its tail, or pushes it against a hard surface to propel itself.

Chevron (land form)

A chevron is a wedge-shaped sediment deposit observed on coastlines and continental interiors around the world. The term chevron was originally used independently by Maxwell and Haynes and Hearty and others for large, v-shaped, sub-linear to parabolic landforms in southwestern Egypt and on islands in the eastern, windward Bahamas.

Chevron

Chevron may refer to:

Nature
  • Chevron (anatomy), a bone
  • Eulithis testata, a moth
  • Chevron (geology), a fold in rock layers
  • Chevron (land form), a sediment deposit across the earth's surface
Organisations
  • The Chevron, former newspaper at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
  • Chevron Corporation, an American multinational energy corporation
    • Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837 (1984), a United States Supreme Court case dealing with administrative law
  • Chevron Cars Ltd, a British racing car constructor
  • Chevron Engineering Ltd, a New Zealand car maker
People
  • Phil Chevron (1957–2013), Irish singer/songwriter
  • The Chevrons, an American pop group
Places
  • Chevron, or Hebron, a city in Judea
  • Chevron Island, a neighbourhood in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Symbols
  • Chevron (insignia), a heraldic symbol
  • Guillemets, a type of quotation mark
  • Angle brackets, another punctuation mark
  • Trill (music), a wavy line indicating a trill
Technology
  • Chevron (aerospace), sawtooth patterns on some jet engines
  • Part of a stargate in the Stargate fictional universe
Chevron (geology)

Chevron folds are a structural feature characterized by repeated well behaved folded beds with straight limbs and sharp hinges. Well developed, these folds develop repeated set of v-shaped beds. They develop in response to regional or local compressive stress. Inter-limb angles are generally 60 degrees or less. Chevron folding preferentially occurs when the bedding regularly alternates between contrasting competences. Turbidites, characterized by alternating high-competence sandstones and low-competence shales, provide the typical geological setting for chevron folds to occurs.

Perpetuation of the fold structure is not geometrically limited. Given a proper stratigraphy, chevrons can persist almost indefinitely.

Chevron (aeronautics)

In aerospace industry, chevrons are the sawtooth patterns on the trailing edges of some jet engine nozzles that are used for noise reduction. Their principle of operation is that, as hot air from the engine core mixes with cooler air blowing through the engine fan, the shaped edges serve to smooth the mixing, which reduces noise-creating turbulence. Chevrons were developed with the help of NASA. Some notable examples of such engines include GEnx and Rolls-Royce Trent 1000.

Usage examples of "chevron".

When he came to the Castalia Invincibles, he picked Caudell out by his chevrons, handed him a length of iron with a curved and flattened end.

Jondalar came over to them and lowered himself carefully to the grass mat beside Ayla while he balanced with both hands a watertight but handleless and somewhat flexible cup, woven out of bear grass in a chevron design of contrasting colors, filled with hot mint tea.

Gabriel Perea and the Virgin while covering the latest fire at the Chevron refinery in El Paso.

With his visor down, his face could not be seen, but his surcoat was dark green with a yellow crest of rearing stags, and his cloak was chevroned in strips of dark and pale fur.

Zim had tried out all of the older men as temporary non-coms first and I had inherited a brassard with chevrons on it a couple of days before when our squad leader had folded up and gone to hospital.

After I got my chevrons I simply had to get things straight with Ace, because Jelly kept me on as assistant section leader.

Like boot chevrons, this is an uncomfortable honor, but in less than two days my own call came.

And there beyond I see the red and silver of the Worsleys of Apuldercombe, who like myself are of Hampshire lineage, Close behind us is the moline cross of the gallant William Molyneux, and beside it the bloody chevrons of the Norfork Woodhouses, with the amulets of the Musgraves of Westmoreland.

The outer wall was only the height of a tall man, but a circle of stone pillars supported the sloping roof, carved with spirals and triple knots, chevrons and wound about with twisted bands of colour.

The patterns incorporated not only chevrons but triangles, zigzags, rhomboids, and right-angled spirals, in both blue and red.

Major Tweedy, moustached like Turko the terrible, in bearskin cap with hackleplume and accoutrements, with epaulettes, gilt chevrons and sabretaches, his breast bright with medals, toes the line.

I wished that I were back in the drop room of the Rog, with not too many chevrons and an after-chow bull session in full swing.

Here's your room assignment, here's a checkoff list you start withand you can start by cutting off those chevrons.

These boot chevrons didn't mean muchmostly the privilege of being chewed out for whatever your squad did as well as for what you did yourselfand they could vanish as quickly as they appeared.

Several recruits resigned that evening and I thought about it but didn't because I had those silly boot chevrons and hadn't been busted yet.