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Mark in the intersection of 19-Across and 11-Down
Answer for the clue "Mark in the intersection of 19-Across and 11-Down ", 10 letters:
circumflex
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Word definitions for circumflex in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Circumflex \Cir"cum*flex\, n. [L. circumflexus a bending round, fr. circumflectere, circumflexum, to bend or turn about; circum + flectere to bend. See Flexible .] A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable. ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Slavic cheekbones caught the gentle light; one eyebrow was incomplete but the other was angled like a circumflex .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 having a #Noun mark 2 curve around n. (context orthography English) a diacritical mark ((l mul ˆ)) placed over a vowel in certain languages to change its pronunciation; also used in combination with certain consonant in Esperanto to create http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto_orthography ...
Usage examples of circumflex.
The street outside is flanked on both sidewalks by defiles of wheelchaired, blanket-lapped persons whose faces are obscured by what look like large and snow-dotted leaves, and the shades of the Portuguese grocery have been drawn and a ROPAS sign hung by a circumflex of twine in the pane of the front door.
Himself's film opens as a beautifully sad young bus-station male prostitute, fragile and epicene and so blond even his eyebrows and lashes are blond, is approached in the Greyhound coffee shop by a flabby, dissipated-looking old specimen with gray teeth and circumflex eyebrows and obvious temporal-lobe difficulties.
I was with the Philadelphia Institute expedition in the Bad Lands under Professor Cope, hunting mastodon bones, and I overheard him say, his own self, that any plantigrade circumflex vertebrate bacterium that hadn't wings and was uncertain was a reptile.
The use of the circumflex in other languages such as Adûnaic or Dwarvish has no special significance, and is used merely to mark these out as alien tongues (as with the use of _k_).
The three dots, most usual in forming writing for _a, _were variously written in quicker styles, a form like a circumflex being often employed.
Long vowels are usually marked with the 'acute accent', as in some varieties of Fëanorian script In Sindarin long vowels in stressed monosyllables are marked with the circumflex, since they leaded in such cases to be specially prolonged.
The use of the circumflex in other languages such as Adûnaic or Dwarvish has no special significance, and is used merely to mark these out as alien tongues (as with the use of k).
The three dots, most usual in forming writing for a, were variously written in quicker styles, a form like a circumflex being often employed.
The heavy black brows circumflexed Monk's eyes, and he drew down the corners of his wide mouth.
A circumflex accent in stressed monosyllables in Sindarin denotes the particularly long vowel heard in such words (thus H?