Chevron

/ˈʃɛvɹən/

Synonyms for "chevron" (169 found)

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Closest matches (34)

achievementalerionangleanimal chargeannuletapexargentarmorial bearingsarmoryarmsaviation badgeazurebadgebandeaubarbar sinisterbatonbearingsbendbend sinister
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Noun(2 words)
angle stripechevron pattern

Strong matches (51)

Related words (84)

Noun(8 words)
military insigniamouldingrank insigniastripestripesv motifv shapewicket

Related word relations

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More general

11 entries
architectural ornamentarmorial bearingbadgebearingchargedesignemblemheraldic bearinginsigniapatternsymbol

More specific

9 entries
brick chevron patterndiagonal chevron patterninverted chevronlieutenant chevronmoulded chevronrepeating chevron motifsergeant chevronstaff sergeant chevronupward chevron

Collocations

6 entries
V shapechevron insigniachevron mouldingchevron patternheraldic chevronmilitary chevrons

Inflections

3 entries

Derivations

2 entries

Sample sentences

7 total sentences available.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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...the sheet to be chevroned locks itself into the furrow.

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