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accent grave

accent grave noun: a grave accent.

Noun

accent grave (plural accents grave)

  1. A grave accent.
    • The second method for shutting off the macro key is to type an accent grave (`). The key is usually located in the upper left corner of the keyboard. The accent grave symbol shares the key with the tilde symbol (~).1991, Douglas J. Wolf, Microsoft Works Quick Reference, Carmel, IN: Que Corporation, →ISBN, page 128
    • In order to print an actual semicolon or the prefix marker (\) as part of a citation, type an accent grave (`) before the character. The accent grave tells EndNote to treat the following character as regular text, and not as a significant character for parsing the citation.2001, Endnote 5: Bibliographies Made Easy, Berkeley, CA: ISI ResearchSoft, Thomson Scientific, page 208

accent grave meaning in Tamil

accent grave in Tamil

எடுத்துக்காட்டு

Examples of accent grave in a sentence

  • That means no tilde (~), no accent grave (`), no umlaut (¨) and certainly no cedilla (¸).2015 April 11, Tovin Lapan, “California birth certificates and accents: O’Connor alright, Ramón and José is not”, in The Guardian, archived...
  • “Accent grave over the third e.” / Lucybelle laughed.2016, Lucy Jane Bledsoe, A Thin Bright Line, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 182:
  • TOURTIÈRE, scrawled across the top of the white card in my mother’s unwieldy handwriting, an accent grave raising its head pointedly above the ‘E.’ Below, a list of ingredients.2018 November 30, Isabelle Bourgeault-Tassé, “How a family recipe taught me what’s at stake when Franco-Ontarians lose their roots”, in The...

Forms of accent grave

pluralaccents grave

Questions about accent grave

What does accent grave mean?
Accent grave means a grave accent.
What is accent grave in Tamil?
Accent grave in Tamil is எடுத்துக்காட்டு. See Accent grave meaning in Tamil.
How do you use accent grave in a sentence?
That means no tilde (~), no accent grave (`), no umlaut (¨) and certainly no cedilla (¸).
What part of speech is accent grave?
Accent grave is a noun.
What is the plural of accent grave?
The plural of accent grave is accents grave.

Words near accent grave in the dictionary

  1. accent
  2. accent acute
  3. accent circumflex
  4. accent diamond
  5. accent diamonds
  6. accent grave
  7. accent mark
  8. accent marks
  9. accent tag
  10. accent tags
  11. accent wall

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Adapted from Wiktionary: accent grave (page history and authors); accent grave (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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