Meaning of "tilde" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TILDE

From Spanish, from Latin titulus title, superscription.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF TILDE

tilde  [ˈtɪldə]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TILDE

Tilde is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TILDE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Tilde

The tilde (/ˈtɪldə/, /ˈtɪldi/; ˜ or ~; also referred to informally as squiggly or squiggle(s)) is a grapheme with several uses. The name of the character comes from Portuguese and Spanish, from the Latin titulus meaning "title" or "superscription", though the term "tilde" has evolved and now has a different meaning in linguistics. Some may refer to it as a "flourish". It was originally written over a letter as a scribal abbreviation, as a "mark of suspension", shown as a straight line when used with capitals. Thus the commonly used words Anno Domini were frequently abbreviated to Ao Dñi an elevated terminal with a suspension mark placed above the "n". Such mark could denote the omission of one letter or several letters. This saved on the expense of the scribe's labour and the cost of vellum and ink. Mediaeval European charters written in Latin are largely made up of such abbreviated words with suspension marks, with few being given in full, generally only uncommon words. It has since acquired a number of other uses as a diacritic mark or a character in its own right.

Definition of tilde in the English dictionary

The definition of tilde in the dictionary is the diacritical mark placed over a letter to indicate a palatal nasal consonant, as in Spanish señor. This symbol is also used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent any nasalized vowel.

TRANSLATION OF TILDE

Find out the translation of tilde to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of tilde from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tilde» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 波浪
• Translator English - Spanish: tilde
• English: tilde
• Translator English - Hindi: टिल्ड
• Translator English - Arabic: تيلدا
• Translator English - Russian: тильда
• Translator English - Portuguese: til
• Translator English - Bengali: টিল্ড
• Translator English - French: tilde
• Translator English - Malay: Tilde
• Translator English - German: Tilde
• Translator English - Japanese: ティルデ
• Translator English - Korean: 물결
• Translator English - Javanese: Tilde
• Translator English - Vietnamese: dấu nga
• Translator English - Tamil: டில்டு
• Translator English - Marathi: टिल्ड
• Translator English - Turkish: tilde
• Translator English - Italian: tilde
• Translator English - Polish: tyldy
• Translator English - Ukrainian: Тільда
• Translator English - Romanian: tilda
• Translator English - Greek: περισπωμένη
• Translator English - Afrikaans: tilde
• Translator English - Swedish: tilde
• Translator English - Norwegian: tilde

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TILDE»

Discover the use of tilde in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tilde and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Geometry of Sporadic Groups: Volume 1, Petersen and Tilde ...

Important monograph on finite group theory.

A. A. Ivanov, 1999

Field Guide to Mammals of Southern Africa

And, often overlooked but included here too is the diversity of marine mammals seals, whales and dolphins that are found in our oceans.This new edition of Field Guide to Mammals of Southern Africa has been extensively revised to include the ...

Chris Stuart, Tilde Stuart, 2001

Asherah: Goddesses in Ugarit, Israel and the Old Testament

The main theses of the book are that two or more divinities carrying the same name but separated by several hundred years are not necessarily to be identified; that Asherah is probably not a name, but rather a title, carried by the main ...

Tilde Binger, 1997

Introductory Command Line Unix for Users

Editing Mail Messages: The Tilde Commands A mail message has two components: the header and the text. The header contains information about the message such as the addresses of people to whom the message is to be sent and the ...

Richard Petersen, 2006

French Women Writers and the Book: Myths of Access and Desire

Examines the work of French women writers, Marie de France, Simone de Beauvoir and Helene Cixous, and three who are much less well-known, Madeline and Catherine des Roches and Marie de Gournay.

Tilde Sankovitch, 1988

Designing Type

The tilde is also an artifact of an ancient scribal tradition. ln early Latin texts, the n or m could be written above a letter instead of after it. Over several centuries, the form of the elevated n and m gradually evolved into the modem tilde. Today, the ...

Karen Cheng, 2006

Brand Management: Research, Theory and Practice

Brand Management: Research, Theory and Practice is an important new study that provides an overview of the assumptions, theories, methods and managerial implications of different approaches to the management of brands.

Tilde Heding, Charlotte F. Knudtzen, Mogens Bjerre, 2008

Geometry of Sporadic Groups: Volume 1, Petersen and Tilde ...

Important monograph on finite group theory.

A. A. Ivanov, 2008

No Matter, Never Mind: Proceedings of Toward a Science of ...

So nontilde and tilde universes are not at parity. However, nontilde and tilde operators are equally required for thermal observables, such as heat energy and entropy (Umezawa 1993: 146). Vitiello ( 1995, in press) emphasizes ,, ... the tilde  ...

Kunio Yasue, Mari Jibu, Tarcisio Della Senta, 2002

Harvey's Graded-school Speller

Some Latin adjectives form English nouns in tude; e. g., altitude, height, from altus, high. mul'ti tilde mag'ni tude lat'i tude ... for'ti tilde ree'ti tude sol'i tilde qui'e tilde grat'i tilde serv'i tude plen'i tilde eon'sue tilde des'ue tilde apt'i tilde hab'i tilde  ...

Thomas Wadleigh Harvey, 1878

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TILDE»

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«Tilde»: 21 valoda Eiropā ilgtermiņā ir digitāli apdraudēta

No 30 Eiropas valodām 21 ilgtermiņā ir digitāli apdraudēta, šorīt Latvijas Radio teica tehnoloģiju uzņēmuma «Tilde» valdes priekšsēdētājs Andrejs Vasiļjevs, ... «TVNET, Apr 15»

Tilde de Paula pussar Peter Jihde på kinden

... en puss på kinden framför tv-tittarna. Tilde de Paula och Peter Jihde leder morgonshowen tillsammans på vardagar och har vid flera tillfällen skapat rubriker. «Expressen, Apr 15»

Här får Mattias, 21, en dejt med Tilde de Paula

Efter miljonvinsten i "Nyhetsmorgon" tog Mattias Aziz mod till sig och bjöd ut programledaren Tilde de Paula på en dejt. På måndagen dukade han upp med ... «Expressen, Mar 15»

¡Deja de vivir en el engaño! Estas palabras NO llevan tilde

No llevan tilde por ser palabras graves terminadas en “n”, aunque sus plurales sí la llevan (imágenes, exámenes, volúmenes, resúmenes, orígenes, jóvenes y ... «Sopitas.com, Mar 15»

Bjöd ut de Paula efter vinst i Nyhetsmorgon

Både programledaren Tilde de Paula Eby och Mattias Aziz har erfarenhet av att jobba i restaurangbranschen och som pizzabagare. Något som får Tilde de ... «Expressen, Feb 15»

Fina klippet som får Tilde de Paula att gråta

Efter den hjärtvärmande videon blev det svårt för programledaren Tilde de Paula och meteorologen Madeleine Westin att hålla tillbaka känslorna under ... «Expressen, Feb 15»

Jonathan On the Edge By Dr. Aliyu U. Tilde

Jonathan On the Edge By Dr. Aliyu U. Tilde. The revelation from his Special Adviser on Publicity, Doyin Okupe, that this government would rather handover to ... «SaharaReporters.com, Feb 15»

Gunmen kill 72-year-old ex-Bauchi Accountant General

A former Accountant General to the Bauchi State Government , Alhaji Baffa Tilde abducted recently by unknown gunmen has been confirmed dead. «Daily Sun, Dec 14»

Quartz Daily Brief—Europe edition—Japan enters recession, China …

Please send any news, comments, tilde rebranding strategies, and Japanese butter substitutes to [e-mail]. You can follow us on Twitter here for updates ... «Quartz, Nov 14»

¿El doble tilde de WhatsApp provocará más problemas de pareja?

Whatsapp empezó a informar a los usuarios si sus mensajes fueron leídos con una doble tilde azul desde el miércoles. Antes la aplicación sólo indicaba si los ... «Minutouno.com, Nov 14»