chevron — meaning in English

English meaning

• chevron noun A V-shaped stripe or pattern, often used as a badge of military or police rank.
• rafter noun One of a series of sloped beams that extend from the ridge or hip to the downslope perimeter or eave, designed to support the roof deck and its associated loads.

Senses

chevron is used for these senses in English:

• háček (orthography, and, typography) A caron; a diacritical mark (ˇ) usually resembling an inverted circumflex, but in the cases of ď, Ľ, ľ, and ť resembling an apostrophe (’) instead.
• rafter (architecture) One of a series of sloped beams that extend from the ridge or hip to the downslope perimeter or eave, designed to support the roof deck and its associated loads.

chevron — full definition

1. noun A V-shaped stripe or pattern, often used as a badge of military or police rank.
2. noun A V-shaped road marking used to show a safe following distance between vehicles.

rafter — full definition

1. noun One of a series of sloped beams that extend from the ridge or hip to the downslope perimeter or eave, designed to support the roof deck and its associated loads.
2. noun A flock of turkeys.

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