tildes
Marks over ñ's
Tildes are the wavy diacritical marks (~) placed over letters in certain languages—most commonly the Spanish ñ, where it indicates a palatalized n sound: señor, jalapeño.
In Portuguese, tildes mark nasalized vowels: São Paulo.
In informal digital communication, tildes sometimes bracket words for emphasis or irony, or trail off to suggest playfulness: ~fancy~, see you later~.
Language of Iberia
- PortugueseOf a western Iberian nation
- accentRegional speech pattern
- diacriticalRelating to accent marks
- orthographyStandard writing conventions
pronunciation · nasal · vowel · spelling · linguistics · phonetics · character · glyph
In approximate terms
- approximatelyClose but not exact
- aboutConcerning or approximately
- estimateInformed guess at quantity
- equivalenceState of being equal
mathematics · notation · symbol · asymptotic · similarity · proportional · nearly · circa
Periodic oscillation curve
- oscillationRepeated back-and-forth movement
- undulationRhythmic rise and fall
- curveSmooth, angleless line
- squiggleIrregular wavy mark
waveform · frequency · amplitude · signal · modulation · vibration · wavy · serpentine
To grow vigorously
- ornamentThing that beautifies
- swirlRotating, curving movement
- scrollWound document of parchment
- filigreeDelicate twisted-wire ornamentation
embellishment · calligraphy · penmanship · swash · curlicue · lettering · manuscript · illumination
Spanish
Language of Iberia
- PortugueseOf a western Iberian nation
- accentRegional speech pattern
- diacriticalRelating to accent marks
orthography · pronunciation · nasal · vowel · spelling · linguistics · phonetics · character · glyph · cedilla
roughly
In approximate terms
- approximatelyClose but not exact
- aboutConcerning or approximately
- estimateInformed guess at quantity
equivalence · mathematics · notation · symbol · asymptotic · similarity · proportional · nearly · circa · ballpark
sinusoid
Periodic oscillation curve
- oscillationRepeated back-and-forth movement
- undulationRhythmic rise and fall
- curveSmooth, angleless line
squiggle · waveform · frequency · amplitude · signal · modulation · vibration · wavy · serpentine · wiggle
flourish
To grow vigorously
filigree · embellishment · calligraphy · penmanship · swash · curlicue · lettering · manuscript · illumination · handwriting
home directory
Personal storage starting point
- pathRoute for traveling
- UnixMultitasking operating system family
- LinuxOpen-source operating system kernel
shell · terminal · command-line · shortcut · user · filesystem · expansion · variable · directory
- lettersa, d, e, h, q
- writing rulespunctuation, capitalization, spelling, apostrophes, commas
- scribal abbreviationsTironian notes
- typographic ornamentsdingbats, flourishes, swashes, filigree, arabesques
- English grammarnouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns
- spellingspelling, spelling rules, spelling patterns, spelling errors, spelling conventions