Meaning of accent grave | Babel Free

Definitions

A grave accent.

Examples

“The second method for shutting off the macro key is to type an accent grave (`). The key is usually located in the upper left corner of the keyboard. The accent grave symbol shares the key with the tilde symbol (~).”

“In order to print an actual semicolon or the prefix marker (\) as part of a citation, type an accent grave (`) before the character. The accent grave tells EndNote to treat the following character as regular text, and not as a significant character for parsing the citation.”

“To display formulas in a spreadsheet, press Ctrl+` (an accent grave character, which appears on the same key as the ~ sign and often appears to the left of the number 1 key near the top of a keyboard).”

“If you occasionally have to type a foreign word with special punctuation such as Español with the tilde over the “n” or Frère with an accent grave, it can be exasperating to find the right program within word processing.”

“California, like several other states, prohibits the use of diacritical marks or accents on official documents. That means no tilde (~), no accent grave (`), no umlaut (¨) and certainly no cedilla (¸).”

“Dorothy took a short breath. “Accent grave over the third e.” / Lucybelle laughed. She knew exactly what Dorothy was referring to. Anytime someone asked her name, the Vassar scholar said, “Geneviève, four e’s, accent grave over the third one.””

“I glanced at the recipe. TOURTIÈRE, scrawled across the top of the white card in my mother’s unwieldy handwriting, an accent grave raising its head pointedly above the ‘E.’ Below, a list of ingredients.”

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