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breve
[ breev, brev ]
noun
- Phonetics, Orthography. a diacritic (藰) over a vowel to show that it is short, or to indicate a specific pronunciation, as 怒 in (k怒t) cut.
- Law.
- an initial writ.
- a writ, as one issued by a court of law.
- Music.
- the longest modern note, equivalent to two semibreves or whole notes.
- Also 产谤别惫路颈蝉 []. a note in medieval mensural notation equal to one-half or one-third of a longa.
- Prosody. a mark (鈥娝樷) over a syllable to show that it is not stressed.
breve
/ 产谤颈藧惫 /
noun
- an accent, (藰), placed over a vowel to indicate that it is of short duration or is pronounced in a specified way
- music a note, now rarely used, equivalent in time value to two semibreves
- RC Church a less common word for brief
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of breve1
Example Sentences
One in particular, called B. breve, could help babies make the most of nutrients in breast milk and ward off bugs, preliminary tests suggest.
His breve bid for the presidency will restore in the United States the ideals of Athenian democracy 鈥 or at least give us a good Greek yogurt parfait.
The babies were given either the probiotic Bifidobacterium breve or a placebo.
These missae breves, or short Masses, as Protestant churches used them in Bach鈥檚 time, retained only the Kyrie and Gloria of the Roman Catholic Mass, stopping short of the Credo for obvious reasons.
Before him on the sheet was half a line of breves and semibreves, which Nancy remembered from her childhood as little men getting over stiles.
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