macron

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[Transcriber's note: the "o" in "_Sahiblog_" is o-macron, Unicode U+014D.]

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  1. noun A diacritical mark placed above a vowel to indicate a long sound or phonetic value in pronunciation, such as (ā) in the word make.
  2. noun The horizontal mark ( ¯ ) used to indicate a stressed or long syllable in a foot of verse.

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  • There are many delightful walks around Exmouth, both along the coast and inland, the view from Beacon Hill being very fine and including a large strip of the eastern and the western coastlines that border the blue waters of the English Channel PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN At the Villafield Press, Glasgow, Scotland Transcribers note In this plain text E and S with a macron is represented by [=S] [=E —  Exeter
  • Transcriber's Note: The letters "a" and "e" with a macron are rendered as in this text Illustration: THE PRINCESS AND HER COMPANION SHORT SKETCHES FROM OLDEST AMERICA By JOHN B. DRIGGS, M.D PHILADELPHIA GEORGE W. JACOBS & CO. PUBLISHERS Copyright, 1905, by GEORGE W. JACOBS & COMPANY Published July, 1905 Publishers' Preface From the small size of this volume, one would hardly realize, perhaps, what an immense amount of labor and patient research its writing must necessarily represent. —  Short Sketches from Oldest America
  • In this text a character with macron is represented as [=x Superscripted characters are enclosed by curly brackets and preceed by a caret character (example: ^{th Illustration: BRINGING IN THE YULE LOG. —  Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries
  • Typing errors have been corrected, and minor errors have been set right All statements made and conjectures proposed should be considered to have been made in 1985 The HTML and Text versions of this edition This digital edition is being made available in two versions The HTML version takes advantage of the Unicode character set to present Greek passages using the Greek alphabet, and to present certain other special characters, such as the macron. —  The Last Poems of Ovid
  • Similarly, in the textual apparatus any capital letter occurring in the report of a manuscript should be considered to be that letter in lower case, with a macron (dash) above When the textual apparatus reports a manuscript correction where the original reading is no longer legible, the HTML version underlines the corrected letters, but the Text version uses capitalization. —  The Last Poems of Ovid
 

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  1. Greek makron, from neuter of makros, long; see māk- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Greek μακρόν, neuter of μακρός, long, tall, deep, far, large, great, long in time, akin to μῆκος, Doric μᾶκος, length, and prob. = Latin macer(macr-), lean, lank: see meager.
 

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