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Circumflex   Listen
noun
Circumflex  n.  
1.
A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable.
2.
A character, or accent, denoting in Greek a rise and of the voice on the same long syllable, marked thus (~); and in Latin and some other languages, denoting a long and contracted syllable, marked (^). See Accent, n., 2.






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"Circumflex" Quotes from Famous Books



... twilight it looked dreadful. The rockery, like a mountain, covered the entire grass plot; the tomb formed a cube in the midst of spinaches, the Venetian bridge a circumflex accent over the kidney-beans, and the summer-house beyond a big black spot, for they had burned its straw roof to make it more poetic. The yew trees, shaped like stags or armchairs, succeeded to the tree that seemed thunder-stricken, ...
— Bouvard and Pecuchet - A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life • Gustave Flaubert

... that I am writing. He comes towards me on all fours through the straw and lifts his intelligent face to me, with its reddish forelock and the little quick eyes over which circumflex accents fold and unfold them-selves. His mouth is twisting in all directions, by reason of a tablet of chocolate that he crunches and chews, while he holds the moist stump of ...
— Under Fire - The Story of a Squad • Henri Barbusse

... between two words or letters that are intended to be separated, a parallel line must be drawn where the separation ought to be, and the mark No. 4 placed opposite in the margin. Also where words or letters should join, but are separated, the circumflex No. 5, must be placed under the separation, and the same mark ...
— The Author's Printing and Publishing Assistant • Frederick Saunders

... the falling inflection, but as they are emphatic, and the object of emphasis is to draw attention to the word emphasized, this is here accomplished in part by giving an unusual inflection. Some speakers would give these words the circumflex, but it would he the rising circumflex, so that the sound would still terminate with ...
— McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey

... circumflex (^) is used to indicate that the rest of the word is a superscript. Asterisks (*) are placed around words that were typeset in a Blackletter typeface in ...
— The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II • Ovid

... [-e] [-i] ... [vowel with macron or "long" mark] [)a] [)e] [)i] ... [vowel with breve or "short" mark] [The book generally used circumflex accents to represent long vowels. ...
— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller

... 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. Well, then, has this dog any wings? No. Is he a plantigrade circumflex vertebrate bacterium? Maybe so, maybe not; but without ever having seen ...
— A Horse's Tale • Mark Twain

... but declaimed, now rapid and now slow. The side of the choir which Durtal saw made all the vowels sharp and short letters; the other, on the contrary, altered them all into long letters and seemed to cap all the Os with a circumflex accent. It might be said that one side had the pronunciation of the South, the other that of the North; thus chanted, the office became strange, and ended by rocking like an incantation, and soothing the soul which fell asleep in the rolling of the verses, interrupted by the recurrent ...
— En Route • J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

... contact (F. M. Caird). The subscapularis is bruised or torn, the muscles inserted into the great tuberosity are greatly stretched, or the tuberosity itself may be avulsed, allowing the long tendon of the biceps to slip laterally, where it may form an impediment to reduction. The axillary (circumflex) nerve is often bruised or torn, and the head of the humerus is liable to press injuriously on the nerves ...
— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles

... acute and the second a grave; hence only on the last, or next to the last syllable, and only on a long vowel or a diphthong. When the last syllable has a short vowel, such a penult, if accented, takes the circumflex. ...
— Greek in a Nutshell • James Strong

... open o [[c].] open o with dot under [h] h with stroke [p.] p with dot under [^q] q with circumflex [vs] s with caron [vs.] s with caron and dot under [t.] t with dot under [ts.] ts with dot under ...
— Animal Figures in the Maya Codices • Alfred M. Tozzer and Glover M. Allen

... transliterated and shown between marks. Vowels with macron ("long" mark) have a circumflex accent instead. Vowels with breve ("short" mark, not common) have been unpacked and shown in brackets, ...
— Helps to Latin Translation at Sight • Edmund Luce

... person; seeing ourselves every day, we end, like the Baron, by thinking ourselves but little altered, and still youthful, when others see that our head is covered with chinchilla, our forehead scarred with circumflex accents, our stomach assuming the rotundity of a pumpkin. So these rooms, always blazing in Betty's eyes with the Bengal fire of Imperial victory, were to her ...
— Cousin Betty • Honore de Balzac

... knitting the circumflex accent that he had above his nose, said not a word. Then the very humble priest trembled in his skin to have confessed so much to his superior. But the holy man directly said to him, "She ...
— Droll Stories, Volume 1 • Honore de Balzac

... are used with a double meaning, as in the case of a pun, or with a peculiar implication, or are repeated for some peculiar effect of mere repetition,—when we have, in any form, what is called a play upon words,—a peculiar pointedness is given, wherein the circumflex inflection plays a large part. "Now is it Rome indeed and room enough, when there is in it but one only man." "I had rather bear with you than bear you; yet if I did bear you, I should bear no cross, for I think you have no money in your purse." ...
— Public Speaking • Irvah Lester Winter

... of the sound has been attempted in the manner which seemed least liable to misconception, and, except as regards the letters A and U no particular system has been followed. These have been invariably given the sounds they possess in the words "path" and "cut" respectively, a circumflex being placed over the latter to denote the short ...
— Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet • by William Henry Knight

... Throughout this book, some characters are used which are not part of the Latin-1 character set used in this e-book. The string "[^y]" is used to represent a lower-case "Y" with a circumflex mark on top of it, "[a]" is used to represent a lower-case "A" with a line on top of it, and "[oe]" is used to represent the "oe"-ligature. Numbers in braces such as "{3}" are used to represent the superscription ...
— The Religion of the Ancient Celts • J. A. MacCulloch

... used for these marks is: Macron (straight line over letter) [x] Umlaut (2 dots over letter) [:x] Grave accent ['x] Acute accent ['x] Circumflex [^x] Breve (u-shaped symbol over letter) [)x] Cedilla ...
— "De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries • Caius Julius Caesar

... line) [<] Crescendo hairpin [x] small cross [] 45 degree downstroke [/] 45 degree upstroke [/] large circumflex shape [O|] a circle bisected by a vertical line protruding both ways [Gamma] The Greek capital gamma [mid-dot] a dot at the height of a hyphen [over-dot] a single dot over the following letter [Over-slur] a frown-shaped curved line [Under-slur] a smile-shaped curved ...
— Critical & Historical Essays - Lectures delivered at Columbia University • Edward MacDowell

... 6. The circumflex, which indicates the long, closed [o:], is corrected as other errors by placing the corrected version of the item ...
— Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language • Diego Collado

... normal individuals, the abundance, variety, and precocity of wrinkles almost invariably manifested by criminals, cannot fail to strike the observer. The following are the most common: horizontal and vertical lines on the forehead, horizontal and circumflex lines at the root of the nose, the so-called crow's-feet on the temple at the outer corners of the eyes, naso-labial wrinkles around the region of the ...
— Criminal Man - According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso • Gina Lombroso-Ferrero



Words linked to "Circumflex" :   diacritical mark, circumflex artery of the thigh, circumflex humeral artery, circumflex scapular artery, circumflex vein



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