单词 | breathing mark |
释义 | breathing markn. 1. Phonetics. In Ancient Greek: a diacritic mark indicating the presence or absence of aspiration on an initial vowel, diphthong, or rho. Cf. breathing n. 9. ΚΠ 1859 J. F. Richardson Roman Orthoëpy 48 F and H..were originally mere marks of aspiration... The form of the latter resulted from the union of..two Grecian breathing marks... They were afterwards treated as letters. 1932 Language 8 Pref. Accents and breathing marks of Greek words are omitted in quotations from the inscriptions. 2009 F. Boschetti et al. in M. Agosti et al. Res. & Advanced Technol. for Digital Libraries: 13th European Conf. 156 Ancient Greek utilizes a wide set of characters to represent the combinations of accents and breathing marks on the vowels. 2. Music. A mark in musical notation which indicates where a singer or wind instrument player may take a breath. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > notation > [noun] marking1597 notation1776 breathing mark1863 1863 T. E. Perkins Sacred Lute 32/1 Chest tones are marked C...Head-tones are marked H. Breathing mark |. 1963 A. C. Boult Thoughts on Conducting 12 Bowings for the strings, also breathing marks for long wind passages, are most important. 2007 J. L. Bell Singing Thing Too 12 They [sc. church musicians] may require their singers..to scribble down tempo and breathing marks in pencil in the margins. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1859 |
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