Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A badge or insignia consisting of stripes meeting at an angle, worn on the sleeve of a military or police uniform to indicate rank, merit, or length of service.
- noun Heraldry A device shaped like an inverted V.
- noun A V-shaped pattern, especially a kind of fret used in architecture.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In heraldry, one of the honorable ordinaries.
- noun A variety of fret ornament common in Norman and other Romanesque architecture.
- noun Milit., a badge consisting of stripes meeting at an angle, worn on the coat-sleeves of non-commissioned officers, above the elbow.
- noun In anatomy and zoology, a chevron-bone (which see).
- noun plural In carpentry, a pair of rafters set up and meeting at the ridge; or two rafters held together at the foot by a tie of some kind and therefore ready to put into place as a truss.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Her.) One of the nine honorable ordinaries, consisting of two broad bands of the width of the bar, issuing, respectively from the dexter and sinister bases of the field and conjoined at its center.
- noun (Mil.) A distinguishing mark, above the elbow, on the sleeve of a non-commissioned officer's coat.
- noun (Arch.) A zigzag molding, or group of moldings, common in Norman architecture.
- noun (Anat.) The V-shaped subvertebral arches which inclose the caudal blood vessels in some animals.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A V-shaped pattern; used in
architecture , and as aninsignia ofmilitary orpolice rank , on thesleeve - noun heraldry A wide inverted V placed on a shield.
- noun chiefly UK One of the V-shaped markings on the surface of
roads used to indicateminimum distances betweenvehicles . - noun A
guillemet , either of the punctuation marks “« ” or “» ”, used in severallanguages to indicatepassages ofspeech . Similar to typicalquotation marks used in the English language such as ““ ” and “” ”. - noun informal A
háček , a diacritical mark that may resemble an inverted circumflex. - verb To form or be formed into chevrons
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service
- noun an inverted V-shaped charge
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The resemblance of "chevron" to "chèvre," the French word for "goat" and our word for a kind of cheese that comes from goat's milk, is no coincidence, as that word derives from "caper" as well.
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In april I received the one and only document I have received in three years from chevron the document stated I had an overdue payment due of $0.00 I called chevron, they told me to disregard letter.
unknown title 2009
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In another basic task, players were asked to visually track an object moving across a screen such as a chevron, that is, a sign.
Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010
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In another basic task, players were asked to visually track an object moving across a screen such as a chevron, that is, a sign.
Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010
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In another basic task, players were asked to visually track an object moving across a screen such as a chevron, that is, a sign.
Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010
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I thought a chevron was a gas station, so there you go.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Today’s Comic: “Sensory Overload” 2007
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The National Transportation Safety Board has shipped three sections of pipe from the explosion site to its laboratory in Ashburn, Va., where metallurgists and engineers will examine welds, corrosion coatings and so-called chevron marks, which are microscopic ridges in the tear surfaces of the pipe that can disclose which way it ripped apart.
San Bruno gas blast gives ammunition to critics of industry risk assessment - latimes.com 2010
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They body terminates in an eel-like tail of over eighty elements, each strengthened by a dorsal spine above and a V-shaped bone, called a chevron, below; so that a vertical section of the lizard would have a diamond shape.
AMBL 2008
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The NY Times has a great piece on an ongoing project that is reviewing the world's shorelines for "chevron" deposits.
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The NY Times has a great piece on an ongoing project that is reviewing the world's shorelines for "chevron" deposits.
Archive 2006-11-01 2006
chained_bear commented on the word chevron
In heraldry, charge or device on the escutcheon, consisting of a bar bent like two meeting rafters.
examples: chevron couped: one which does not touch the sides of the escutcheon; chevron in chief: one which rises to the top of the field; chevron rompee: one with the upper part displaced, as if broken off.
February 5, 2007
arby commented on the word chevron
It has a whole new meaning for me since seeing Stargate (movie, SG-1 or SGA, take your pick)!!
May 4, 2007
sakhalinskii commented on the word chevron
The private sector's alternative to the Catholic church.
July 30, 2008