noun Download 🔗Share A V-shaped pattern; used in architecture, and as an insignia of military or police rank, on the sleeve Examples : "The sergeant's uniform displayed three chevrons on his sleeve, indicating his rank. " architecture military police sign style heraldry Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A wide inverted V placed on a shield. Examples : "The knight's shield featured two bold, red chevrons against a silver background. " heraldry sign military style war Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share One of the V-shaped markings on the surface of roads used to indicate minimum distances between vehicles. Examples : "The highway department painted new chevrons on the road to help drivers keep a safe distance from each other. " traffic sign Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A guillemet, either of the punctuation marks “«” or “»”, used in several languages to indicate passages of speech. Similar to typical quotation marks used in the English language such as ““” and “””. Examples : "In French class, we learned to use chevrons « » instead of quotation marks when writing dialogue. " grammar language writing mark sign linguistics Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share An angle bracket, either used as a typographic or a scientific symbol. Examples : "The computer code used chevrons to indicate HTML tags: <p> for paragraph and for heading. " sign technical math writing communication Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A háček, a diacritical mark that may resemble an inverted circumflex. Examples : "The teacher explained that the symbols looking like small, upside-down "v" shapes above some letters in Czech words are called chevrons. " mark language Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To form or be formed into chevrons Examples : "The geese chevroned across the autumn sky, heading south for the winter. " appearance structure Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading