English word senses marked with topical category "Symbols"

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Parent categories: Letters, symbols, and punctuation, Orthography, Writing, Human behaviour, Language, Human, Communication
Subcategories: Chemical notation, Diacritical marks, Letters, Logograms, Matched pairs, Numeral symbols, Punctuation marks

Total 507 word senses

• A … Et (13 senses)
• F … NaCl (18 senses)
• O … acribic (17 senses)
• acute … broad arrow (21 senses)
• c … circumflex accent (15 senses)
• cis … cédille (14 senses)
• d … dwi- (23 senses)
• e … full-point (18 senses)
• fylfot … guillemet (10 senses)
• h … interpunctuation (17 senses)
• interrobang … kubutz (18 senses)
• l … nundinal letter (20 senses)
• o … pling (17 senses)
• plus … punctus versus (15 senses)
• q … skeletal formula (22 senses)
• skull … structural formula (15 senses)
• sukun … trema (17 senses)
• tri- … čiriklo (23 senses)
• ⠂ (Prefix) Marks non-Latin letters, such as the following for International Greek Braille
• ⠄ (Punctuation) the apostrophe (')
• ⠄⠄⠄ (Punctuation) ellipsis (... or …)
• ⠆ (Character) Renders the print sequence -bb-.
• ⠈ (Character) derives some punctuation marks, namely
• ⠌ (Punctuation) the fraction bar
• ⠐⠂ (Punctuation) The ditto mark
• ⠐⠜ (Punctuation) Closing parenthesis, )
• ⠐⠠⠤ (Punctuation) The dash, —
• ⠐⠣ (Punctuation) Opening parenthesis, (
• ⠒ (Character) Renders the print sequence -cc-.
• ⠒ (Symbol) Starts or stops formatting within a word
• ⠔⠔ (Punctuation) A generic mark for footnotes and references. Equivalent to the symbols *, †, §, etc., and to superscripting numbers and letters.
• ⠖ (Character) Renders the print sequence -ff-.
• ⠘⠦ (Punctuation) The double quotation mark, “
• ⠘⠴ (Punctuation) The double quotation mark, ”
• ⠜ (Character) Renders the print sequence ar.
• ⠠⠦ (Punctuation) The opening inner quotation mark, ‘ in the US, “ in the UK.
• ⠠⠴ (Punctuation) The opening single quotation mark, ‘
• ⠤ (Punctuation) - (hyphen)
• ⠤ (Symbol) Marks the beginning or end of capitalization or emphasis that does not span an entire word.
• ⠤ (Symbol) Marks the end of a metrical foot.
• ⠤ (Prefix) Renders the print sequence com.
• ⠤⠤ (Punctuation) caesura
• ⠤⠤⠤ (Punctuation) The em dash, —
• ⠦ (Punctuation) ? (question mark)
• ⠨ (Symbol) Emphasis mark. Equivalent to italics, bold, or underline in print.
• ⠨⠜ (Punctuation) The closing square bracket, ]
• ⠨⠣ (Punctuation) The opening square bracket, [
• ⠨⠤ (Punctuation) The underscore, _
• ⠲ (Punctuation) . (period, full stop)
• ⠴ (Punctuation) The closing outer quotation mark (” in the US, ’ in the UK)
• ⠴⠄ (Punctuation) The closing inner quotation mark, ’ in the US, ” in the UK.
• ⠶ (Punctuation) ( (opening parenthesis)
• ⠶ (Punctuation) ( (closing parenthesis)
• ⠶ (Character) Renders the print sequence -gg-.
• ⠶⠄ (Punctuation) The closing bracket, ]
• ⠷ (Punctuation) ( (variant opening parenthesis)
• ⠸⠌ (Punctuation) The solidus, /
• ⠸⠜ (Punctuation) The closing curly bracket, }
• ⠸⠡ (Punctuation) The back-slash, \
• ⠸⠣ (Punctuation) The opening curly bracket, {
• ⠼ (Punctuation) used to indicate that the subsequent Braille characters are to be read as digits rather than as letters
• ⠾ (Punctuation) ( (variant closing parenthesis)
• (Punctuation) Used to space out letters in words relating to vaporwave.
• ))) ((( (Symbol) Indicates somebody or something of pure non-Jewish background.
• -gen (Suffix) A producer of something, or an agent in the production of something.
• -ine (Suffix) Used to form names of chemical substances, especially basic (alkaline) substances, alkaloidal substances, or halogen elements.
• -ium (Suffix) Used to form the temporary systematic element name of a metallic or nonmetallic element which is postulated to exist, or which has been newly synthesized and has not yet been assigned a permanent name.
• -on (Suffix) Forming nouns denoting subatomic particles (proton), quanta (photon), molecular units (codon), or substances (interferon).
• -on (Suffix) Forming names of things considered as basic or fundamental units, such as codon or recon.
• -on (Suffix) Forming names of noble gases and certain nonmetal elements (such as boron or silicon).
• 101 (Adjective) Basic, beginner, starting from scratch.
• ~ (Character) Written on a letter, usually a vowel, in place of an omitted n or m.
• ‐ (Punctuation) Connects words in a compound modifier according to various stylistic rules.
• ‐ (Punctuation) Used as sentence-final punctuation.
• ‐ (Conjunction) Joins the components of compounds.; Joins the components of coordinative compounds, with equal components.
• ‘ ’ (Punctuation) Encloses a quotation, title, ironic comment (scare quotes), nickname, gloss, or the mention of a word (e.g. ‘cheese’ derives from Old English ċīese.).
• “ ” (Punctuation) Encloses a quotation, title, ironic comment (scare quotes), nickname, gloss, or the mention of a word
• ◌̀ (Character) Used to indicate that the suffix -ed is pronounced with a schwa: lookèd (IPA /ˈlʊkəd/); past-tense learned vs adjective learnèd. Often used for metrical reasons.
• ◌̀ (Character) Sometimes used for secondary stress in glossaries that use ◌́ for primary stress when full pronunciations are not given.
• ◌̀ (Character) Retained in foreign (mostly French) loan words, particularly when unassimilated: à la carte, crème brûlée, pièce de résistance, pied-à-terre, tête-à-tête, vis-à-vis.
• ◌̀ (Character) An affectation in some proper names: e.g. Ketèlbey.
• ◌́ (Character) Used on loan words to mark e's (mostly final) that are pronounced rather than silent, e.g. animé, café, exposé, maté, resumé, paté, saké; Malé, Pokémon. (Cf. expose, mate, resume, pate, sake, male.)
• ◌́ (Character) Used in glossaries, such as for Latinate technical terms or Classical names, to mark stressed syllables when full pronunciations are not given, as the pronunciation is largely predictable once stress-placement is known.
• ◌́ (Character) Used to show an unexpectedly stressed syllable, or where the choice of stress is metrically important, e.g. idiosyncratic caléndar; noun rébel as opposed to verb rebél; áll trádes as a spondee rather than iamb.
• ◌́ (Character) Retained in foreign loan words (mostly French é), particularly when unassimilated
• ◌̂ (Character) Retained in foreign loan words (mostly French): château, crème brûlée, crêpe, maître d', mêlée, papier-mâché, rôle, tête-à-tête.
• ◌̄ (Character) Placed over a vowel letter to indicate that the syllable is long. Also used alone to mark stress in a metrical foot or verse: see ⟨ˉ⟩.
• ◌̆ (Character) The breve, used to mark a vowel letter as having its 'short' sound: ⟨ă⟩ /æ/, ⟨ĕ⟩ /ɛ/, ⟨ĭ⟩ /ɪ/, ⟨ŏ⟩ /ɒ/, ⟨ŭ⟩ /ʌ/.
• ◌̈ (Character) Retained in foreign (mostly French) loan words where vowels are pronounced separately: naïve (or naive), Noël (or Noel), but also for umlaut in German Götterdämmerung, Führer.
• ◌̧ (Character) Retained in foreign loan words (mostly French ç): façade (or facade).
• ◌͝◌ (Character) Used to mark the digraph ⟨oo⟩ as having its 'short' sound: ⟨o͝o⟩ /ʊ/.
• ◌͞◌ (Character) Used to mark the digraph ⟨oo⟩ as having its 'long' sound: ⟨o͞o⟩ /uː/.
• ◌͞◌ (Character) Ties together the pronunciation-key digraphs a͞a, a͞e, a͞o, e͞w, c͞i, s͞i, t͞h, t͞i.
• ◌͟◌ (Character) Ties together the pronunciation-key digraphs a͟i and c͟h.
• ◌͡◌ (Character) Used to mark digraphs such as the consonants ⟨c͜h, n͡g, s͜h, t͜h, z͜h⟩ for IPA /t͡ʃ, ŋ, ʃ, θ, ʒ/, ⟨ᴋ͜ʜ⟩ for Scottish /x/, or the rhotic vowels ⟨a͡r, e͡r⟩ for IPA /ɑɹ, ɜɹ/.
• ◌᷍◌ (Character) Ties together the pronunciation-key digraphs a᷍a, a᷍i, a᷍u, e᷍e, e᷍i, e᷍u, o᷍i.
• ◌᷵ (Character) Marks a vowel as a schwa.
• ◌᷵ (Character) A partially or optionally reduced vowel, e.g. fa᷵‧tal′i‧ty, de᷵‧pend′, pro᷵‧pose′, for′mu᷵‧late.
• ⸼ (Punctuation) A full stop (period).

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