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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

headstroke en · NOUN

Etymology

From head + stroke.

Meanings

  1. A horizontal line at the top of a letter such as F or T.
  2. In some language scripts, a line written over the letters of a word.
    • The distinguishing feature of Oriya letters is the curved headstroke instead of the straight horizontal headstroke of Devanagari, Bengali, and Gurmukhi. 2003, Richard Gillam, Unicode Demystified: A Practical Programmer's Guide to the Encoding Standard:

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headstrokes Number=Plur lexicographic

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