"punctuate" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈpʌŋktjuːeɪt/ [Received-Pronunciation], [ˈpʌŋkʃuːeɪt] [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-punctuate.wav Forms: more punctuate [comparative], most punctuate [superlative]
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin punctuare (“to mark with points”), from Latin punctus, perfect passive participle of pungō (“I prick, punch”); see point, and compare punch and punctate. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*pewǵ-}}, {{bor|en|ML.|punctuare||to mark with points}} Medieval Latin punctuare (“to mark with points”), {{der|en|la|punctus}} Latin punctus Head templates: {{en-adj|more}} punctuate (comparative more punctuate, superlative most punctuate)
  1. Point-like; consisting of or marked with one or more points.
    Sense id: en-punctuate-en-adj-sdEExal6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Ido translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Turkish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 61 7 27 6 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 61 10 22 7 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 59 6 31 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 69 5 23 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 60 15 16 9 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 60 11 21 7 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 62 9 20 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Ido translations: 67 8 20 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 65 9 21 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations: 57 17 14 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 60 15 17 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 66 9 19 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 60 15 17 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 60 15 17 9

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈpʌŋktjuːeɪt/ [Received-Pronunciation], [ˈpʌŋkʃuːeɪt] [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-punctuate.wav Forms: punctuates [present, singular, third-person], punctuating [participle, present], punctuated [participle, past], punctuated [past]
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin punctuare (“to mark with points”), from Latin punctus, perfect passive participle of pungō (“I prick, punch”); see point, and compare punch and punctate. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*pewǵ-}}, {{bor|en|ML.|punctuare||to mark with points}} Medieval Latin punctuare (“to mark with points”), {{der|en|la|punctus}} Latin punctus Head templates: {{en-verb}} punctuate (third-person singular simple present punctuates, present participle punctuating, simple past and past participle punctuated)
  1. (transitive) To add punctuation to. Tags: transitive Translations (add punctuation to): puntuar (Catalan), ponctuer (French), interpunktieren (German), puntuar (Ido), interpungere (Italian), نقطهلامق (noktalamak) (Ottoman Turkish), pontuar (Portuguese), puntuar (Spanish), interpunktera (Swedish), noktalamak (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-punctuate-en-verb-ViQ4T0-O Disambiguation of 'add punctuation to': 95 4 1
  2. (transitive) To add or to interrupt at regular intervals. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-punctuate-en-verb-KgGuhqya
  3. (transitive) To emphasize; to stress. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-punctuate-en-verb-zXLEXtki
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: point, punctilious, punctual, punctuality, punctuation

Verb [Latin]

Forms: pūnctuāte [canonical]
Head templates: {{head|la|verb form|head=pūnctuāte}} pūnctuāte
  1. second-person plural present active imperative of pūnctuō Tags: active, form-of, imperative, plural, present, second-person Form of: pūnctuō
    Sense id: en-punctuate-la-verb-xUcyL9HD Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2012 January 25, Ming Zhou, George Netto, Jonathan I Epstein, Uropathology E-Book: A Volume in the High Yield Pathology Series, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 403:",
          "text": "[…] with a punctuate or “salt and pepper” chromatin pattern • Associated with focal epidermoid cyst or teratoma in 25% of cases • Lacks intratubular germ cell neoplasia Immunopathology (including immunohistochemistry)[…]",
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          "text": "[…] looking more punctuate. This mechanism is accompanied by a transient increase of mROS that could be inhibited by decreasing DRP1, thus decreasing DRP1/FIS1 association, and thus fission. In fasting animals, hypothalamic mitochondria appear[…]",
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          "emphasize"
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          "stress"
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        "(transitive) To emphasize; to stress."
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpʌŋktjuːeɪt/",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    },
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    },
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    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "add punctuation to",
      "word": "puntuar"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "add punctuation to",
      "word": "ponctuer"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "add punctuation to",
      "word": "interpunktieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "add punctuation to",
      "word": "puntuar"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "add punctuation to",
      "word": "interpungere"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "noktalamak",
      "sense": "add punctuation to",
      "word": "نقطهلامق"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "add punctuation to",
      "word": "pontuar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "add punctuation to",
      "word": "puntuar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "add punctuation to",
      "word": "interpunktera"
    },
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "add punctuation to",
      "word": "noktalamak"
    }
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  "word": "punctuate"
}

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          "ref": "1918, Franklin Henry Martin, Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics, page 11:",
          "text": "[…] with a punctuate wound of entrance and a small wound of exit, may very properly be treated with a dry dressing and not disturbed, and in a large proportion of the cases there will be little or no tissue reaction that will require[…]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1922, Medical Review of Reviews, page 315:",
          "text": "[…] with a punctuate eruption on the hard palate, and a peppery red punctuate rash becoming generalized within twenty-four hours can mean nothing else but scarlet fever. Add to this the circumoral pallor and the glandular enlargements[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005 March 22, Tor Savidge, Charalabos Pothulakis, Microbial Imaging, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 16:",
          "text": "Positive HPV 16 hybridization signal in two cervical carcinomas. A punctuate signal (a) and a punctuate and diffuse signal (b).",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 January 25, Ming Zhou, George Netto, Jonathan I Epstein, Uropathology E-Book: A Volume in the High Yield Pathology Series, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 403:",
          "text": "[…] with a punctuate or “salt and pepper” chromatin pattern • Associated with focal epidermoid cyst or teratoma in 25% of cases • Lacks intratubular germ cell neoplasia Immunopathology (including immunohistochemistry)[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 November 8, Zoran Rumboldt, Mauricio Castillo, Benjamin Huang, Brain Imaging with MRI and CT: An Image Pattern Approach, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 344:",
          "text": "[…] with a punctuate wall calcification (arrow) along the right postcentral sulcus.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 April 13, Beatrice Morio, Luc Penicaud, Michel Rigoulet, Mitochondria in Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes: Comprehensive Review on Mitochondrial Functioning and Involvement in Metabolic Diseases, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 255:",
          "text": "[…] looking more punctuate. This mechanism is accompanied by a transient increase of mROS that could be inhibited by decreasing DRP1, thus decreasing DRP1/FIS1 association, and thus fission. In fasting animals, hypothalamic mitochondria appear[…]",
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        "Point-like; consisting of or marked with one or more points."
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