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Dieresis

Definition: Dieresis

Dieresis

Noun

1. A diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dieresis" was first used: 1611. (references)


Synonyms: Dieresis

Synonyms: diaeresis (n), umlaut (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Dieresis

English words defined with "dieresis": Diaereses, Diereses. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dieresis

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dieresis

8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Dieresis

Language Translations for "dieresis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

Diaerese, trema. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ieresisday

   

Russian 

  

две точки. (various references)

   

Thai

  

เครื่องหมาย ที่ใส่เหนือสระตัวที่สอง เพื่อแส"งว่า ออกเสียงแยกจากสระตัวแรก. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

iki sesli harfi ayırma, harfin üzerine konan iki nokta. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Dieresis

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Greek700 BCE-300 CE

diairesis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Misspellings: Dieresis

Misspellings

"Dieresis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: diaeresis, diakrisis, diareses, diaresis, diegeses, diegesis, dimerised, diuresis, Idrissi. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Dieresis

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-i-r-s-s"

-1 letter: desires, resides.

-2 letters: desire, dieses, diesis, eiders, irides, irised, irises, reside, resids, seders, seised, seiser, series, sirees.

-3 letters: deers, drees, dress, dries, eider, erses, irids, issei, redes, reeds, resid, rides, rises, seder, seeds, seers, seise, sered, seres, sides, sired, siree, sires.

-4 letters: deer, dees, dere, dies, dire, diss, dree, eide, eses, ides, ired, ires.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-i-r-s-s"
 

+1 letter: diaeresis, firesides, siderites.

 

+2 letters: digressive, dispersive, disservice, riversides, serialised, sideliners, silverside, soldieries, spideriest.

 

+3 letters: adversities, dentistries, dirtinesses, discoveries, disinterest, dispersible, disrelished, disrelishes, disservices, dissevering, diversifies, diversities, dosimetries, epidermises, hesperidins, misdescribe, residencies, rigidnesses, siderolites, sidewinders, silversides, spermicides, stridencies, verdigrises.

 

+4 letters: depositaries, depositories, derisiveness, dermatitises, desensitizer, desipramines, determinisms, determinists, digressively, disbelievers, disinterests, dispensaries, dispersively, distilleries, distributees, diversifiers, divestitures, friendliness, frigidnesses, hemosiderins, indirectness, intrepidness, iridescences, irredentisms, irredentists, misdescribed, misdescribes, misericordes, presidencies, reclassified, redigestions, resensitized, resolidifies, spiritedness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Dieresis


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 69 65 72 65 73 69 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    ..    .    .-.    .    ...    ..    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01101001 01100101 01110010 01100101 01110011 01101001 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#105 &#101 &#114 &#101 &#115 &#105 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0069 0065 0072 0065 0073 0069 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3875718471857585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Translations: Ancient
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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