tilde
/ˈtɪldə
/noun
1An accent (~) placed over Spanish n when pronounced ny (as in señor) or Portuguese a or o when nasalized (as in São Paulo), or over a vowel in phonetic transcription, indicating nasalization.A tilde over the vowel indicates a high broken tone, in which the voice starts slightly above the middle of the normal speaking voice range, drops and then rises abruptly....
- In modern Paraguayan orthography, the nasal vowels are represented with the nasal tilde (~) over the oral version of the vowel.
- The fact that the singer was Spanish and that the programme printed the song title with a tilde might have been a clue, anyway.
1.1A symbol similar to a tilde used in mathematics and logic to indicate negation, inversion, etc.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from Spanish, based on Latin titulus (see title).
Rhymes
- be of (any) use
- be of assistance
- be off
- be off the charts
- be of one (or a different) mind
- be of service
- be of the belief that
- be of the opinion that
- Beograd
- be old enough to be someone's father (or mother)
- be on about
- be on a hiding to nothing
- be on at someone
- be one's brother's keeper
- be oneself
- be one's life
- be one's own boss
- be one's (own) lookout
- be one's own man (or woman)
- be one's own master
- be one's own person
- be one's own woman
- be one's own worst enemy
- be on firm ground
- be on nodding terms