caret en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈkɛɹ.ət/ (General-American)
- /ˈkæɹ.ət/ (General-American)
- /ˈkæɹ.ɪt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈkæɹ.ɪt/ (General-American)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈkɛɹ.ɪt/ (General-American)
- /ˈkæɹ.ət/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
From the Latin caret (“it lacks”), the third-person singular present active indicative form of careō (“to lack”).
Meanings
- A mark ⟨ ‸ ⟩ used by writers and proofreaders to indicate that something is to be inserted at that point.
- An exponentiation symbol or operator ⟨＾⟩.
- (qualifier:user interface) An indicator, often a blinking line or bar and usually called a cursor, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place.
- (nonstandard) A circumflex ⟨ ˆ ⟩.
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(nonstandard) A háček ⟨ ˇ ⟩.
[…] the more conventional semivocalic j and the caret (ˇ) respectively.
1944, Maro Beath Jones, “Inclusive Uniform Alphabet for Russian, Bulgarian, Serb-Croatian, Czech, Polish”, in Claremont Slavic Series, Claremont College, page 10:The caret (ˇ), háček, is used over the following consonants: c, d, n, t, r, s, and z to indicate the soft sound. The caret (ˇ) is also used over the vowel e (See Pronunciation II, b, p, v).
1948, Bohumil Emil Mikula, Progressive Czech (Bohemian) (Chicago: Czechoslovak National Council of America), 6In contemporary Czech, the “hook” or caret is no longer in use for lower-case t and d when the latter are palatal; instead, an apostrophe is used (t’, d’) This development is clearly connected with the practical difficulty encountered in printing a caret over letter stems that are too thin.
1991, Michael Shapiro, The Sense of Change: Language as History, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 58, →ISBN:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| carets | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Hyponyms
Translations (23)
de Dach (symbol) · de Einschaltungszeichen (symbol) · hu hatványjel (symbol) · pt acento circunflexo (symbol) · hu betoldásjel (symbol) · hu hiányjel (symbol) · de Einfügezeichen (symbol) · es signo de intercalación (symbol) · mi hiwi (symbol) · hu beszúrási jel (symbol) · de Exponent-Operator (symbol) · hu kalap (symbol) · tr düzeltme imi (symbol) · eo ĉapelo (symbol) · cs vynechávka v rukopise (symbol) · cs stříška (symbol) · fr circonflexe (symbol) · fi sirkumfleksi (symbol) · mi tohu hiwi (symbol) · de Zirkumflex (symbol) · hu háztető (symbol) · ml പാടിനി (symbol) · hu beszúrásjel (symbol)