"‐" meaning in English

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Conjunction

Head templates: {{head|en|conjunction}} ‐
  1. Joins the components of compounds.
    Joins the components of coordinative compounds, with equal components.
    Synonyms (joining components of coordinative compounds): and, hyphen, -hyphen-, cum, -cum-, /, slash
    Sense id: en-‐-en-conj-hVSJ-94m Disambiguation of 'joining components of coordinative compounds': 67 33
  2. Joins the components of compounds.
    Joins the components of subordinative compounds, with a dominant component or head.
    Sense id: en-‐-en-conj-m1hZAc1P
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: apostrophe (alt: '; ’), curly brackets, brace (alt: { }) [US], square bracket, bracket (alt: [ ]) [US], colon (alt: :), comma (alt: ,), dash (alt: ‒; –; —; ―), ellipsis (alt: ), exclamation mark (alt: !), fraction slash (alt: ), guillemet (alt: « »; ‹ ›), hyphen (alt: -; ‐), interpunct (alt: ·), interrobang (alt: ) [rare], bracket, parentheses (US, Canada) (alt: ( )), full stop, period (alt: .) [Canada, US], question mark (alt: ?), quotation marks (alt: ‘ ’ ‚; „) [formal], quotation marks (alt: "; ') [informal] [computing, engineering, mathematics, sciences, physical-sciences, natural-sciences], semicolon (alt: ;), slash, stroke (alt: /) [UK], space (alt: ] [)

Punctuation

Forms: hyphen [name]
Head templates: {{head|en|punctuation mark|name|hyphen}} ‐ (name hyphen)
  1. Separates certain pieces of text.
    Separates syllables.
    Synonyms (distinguish syllables): · (interpunct) [US]
    Sense id: en-‐-en-punct-1wiHFxcO Disambiguation of 'distinguish syllables': 35 4 4 5 5 3 4 4 4 4 3 5 6 4 6 4
  2. Separates certain pieces of text.
    Separates letters to indicate the spelling of a word.
    Sense id: en-‐-en-punct-ExcPMouq
  3. Separates certain pieces of text.
    Separates letters to indicate emphasis.
    Sense id: en-‐-en-punct-jEFFBWdi
  4. Separates certain pieces of text.
    Splits a word across a line break (called hyphenation).
    Sense id: en-‐-en-punct-9vT-LXgJ
  5. Separates certain pieces of text.
    Marks a point where a morpheme (a suffix, a prefix, etc.) is supposed to be attached to a word.
    Sense id: en-‐-en-punct-4OMKtoeJ
  6. Connects certain pieces of text.
    Joins prefixes and suffixes according to stylistic rules, often to avoid confusion in pronunciation or meaning.
    Synonyms (all sense): - (english: hyphen-minus), often used for its ease
    Sense id: en-‐-en-punct-yVFo5hhP Disambiguation of 'all sense': 0 0 0 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  7. Connects certain pieces of text.
    Connects words in compound terms.
    Sense id: en-‐-en-punct-xH4N0AQH
  8. Connects certain pieces of text.
    Connects words in a compound modifier according to various stylistic rules.
    Sense id: en-‐-en-punct-W4jEopKO Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 7 2 2 2 10 11 5 2 14 2 7 7 2 8 6 1 3
  9. Connects certain pieces of text.
    Connects names in some compound surnames.
    Sense id: en-‐-en-punct-9dNzAUbI
  10. Connects certain pieces of text.
    Indicates common parts of repeated compounds.
    Synonyms (connecting compounds): (en-dash), when the constituent parts already contain hyphens
    Sense id: en-‐-en-punct-KjuJH0D3 Disambiguation of 'connecting compounds': 3 3 3 5 8 4 8 13 7 17 7 4 7 5 3 3
  11. Connects certain pieces of text.
    Connects words in some situations, akin to a space.
    Sense id: en-‐-en-punct-VRnmV0jC
  12. Connects certain pieces of text.
    Connects the year, the month and the day, in dates.
    Sense id: en-‐-en-punct-4p6JxbFk
  13. Indicates stuttering.
    Sense id: en-‐-en-punct-ilwa-2Mk
  14. Separates the components of a pun.
    Sense id: en-‐-en-punct-ePnz0uc5
  15. Hides letters. Synonyms (hide letters): , e, n, -, d, a, s, h
    Sense id: en-‐-en-punct-2lbAWKcI Disambiguation of 'hide letters': 4 15 17 3 4 2 3 3 2 2 2 3 4 2 32 3
  16. (Internet slang) Used as sentence-final punctuation. Tags: Internet Categories (topical): English punctuation marks
    Sense id: en-‐-en-punct-gMc6aF~4 Disambiguation of English punctuation marks: 14 3 2 8 5 3 10 3 2 6 2 3 3 2 4 3 7 19

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          "text": "ultra‐ambitious (to indicate both aes are pronounced)"
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          "text": "\"real‐world examples\" (but \"examples are from the real world\")"
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          "text": "Chandler‐Mather"
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          "ref": "1990, Larry Gonick, The Cartoon History of the Universe, page 25",
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          "text": "1789-07-14 the date of the first Bastille Day"
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        {
          "text": "This is a cat‐astrophe! (a catastrophe involving cats)"
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          "_dis1": "4 15 17 3 4 2 3 3 2 2 2 3 4 2 32 3",
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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      "tags": [
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          "text": "secretary-general; yellow-green; a here-today-gone-tomorrow attitude; kitchen-dinette-office"
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          "_dis1": "67 33",
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          "word": "and"
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          "word": "hyphen"
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        {
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          "word": "-hyphen-"
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        {
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          "word": "cum"
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        {
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          "sense": "joining components of coordinative compounds",
          "word": "-cum-"
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        {
          "_dis1": "67 33",
          "sense": "joining components of coordinative compounds",
          "word": "/"
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        {
          "_dis1": "67 33",
          "sense": "joining components of coordinative compounds",
          "word": "slash"
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        {
          "text": "a has-been; cholesterol-free; short-changing"
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        "Joins the components of compounds.",
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      ],
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          "subordinative",
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          "head",
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        ]
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        {
          "text": "syl‐lab‐i‐fi‐ca‐tion",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
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        "Separates syllables."
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        {
          "text": "W‐O‐R‐D spells \"word\"",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Separates certain pieces of text.",
        "Separates letters to indicate the spelling of a word."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "letter",
          "letter#English"
        ],
        [
          "spelling",
          "spelling#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "punctuation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1945 April 30, ad for Listerine shaving cream in LIFE, vol. 18, no. 18, page 7",
          "text": "35¢ TUBE LASTS AND L-A-S-T-S"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Separates certain pieces of text.",
        "Separates letters to indicate emphasis."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "letter",
          "letter#English"
        ],
        [
          "emphasis",
          "emphasis#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "punctuation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We, therefore, the represen‐\ntatives of the United States […]",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Separates certain pieces of text.",
        "Splits a word across a line break (called hyphenation)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "line break",
          "line break#English"
        ],
        [
          "hyphenation",
          "hyphenation#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "punctuation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Happiness ends with -ness.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Separates certain pieces of text.",
        "Marks a point where a morpheme (a suffix, a prefix, etc.) is supposed to be attached to a word."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "morpheme",
          "morpheme#English"
        ],
        [
          "suffix",
          "suffix#English"
        ],
        [
          "prefix",
          "prefix#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "punctuation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "ultra‐ambitious (to indicate both aes are pronounced)"
        },
        {
          "text": "I must re‐press the shirt (to avoid confusion with repress)"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Connects certain pieces of text.",
        "Joins prefixes and suffixes according to stylistic rules, often to avoid confusion in pronunciation or meaning."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "prefix",
          "prefix#English"
        ],
        [
          "stylistic",
          "stylistic#English"
        ],
        [
          "pronunciation",
          "pronunciation#English"
        ],
        [
          "meaning",
          "meaning#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "punctuation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "freeze‐dry"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Connects certain pieces of text.",
        "Connects words in compound terms."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "punctuation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "\"real‐world examples\" (but \"examples are from the real world\")"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Connects certain pieces of text.",
        "Connects words in a compound modifier according to various stylistic rules."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "compound modifier",
          "compound modifier#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "punctuation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Chandler‐Mather"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Connects certain pieces of text.",
        "Connects names in some compound surnames."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "punctuation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "nineteenth‐ and twentieth‐century"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Connects certain pieces of text.",
        "Indicates common parts of repeated compounds."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "punctuation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1990, Larry Gonick, The Cartoon History of the Universe, page 25",
          "text": "Bee #1: It‐is‐good‐that‐we‐do‐all‐the‐work‐and‐the‐queen‐gets‐all‐the‐sex‐\nBee #2: Yes‐good‐for‐the‐hive",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Connects certain pieces of text.",
        "Connects words in some situations, akin to a space."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "space",
          "space#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "punctuation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1789-07-14 the date of the first Bastille Day"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Connects certain pieces of text.",
        "Connects the year, the month and the day, in dates."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "punctuation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "W‐w‐would you marry me?"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Indicates stuttering."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "stuttering",
          "stuttering#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "punctuation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "This is a cat‐astrophe! (a catastrophe involving cats)"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Separates the components of a pun."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "component",
          "component#English"
        ],
        [
          "pun",
          "pun#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "punctuation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "G‐d for God"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Hides letters."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "punctuation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English internet slang"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used as sentence-final punctuation."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Internet",
          "Internet"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Internet slang) Used as sentence-final punctuation."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "punctuation"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Internet"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "english": "hyphen-minus",
      "sense": "all sense",
      "word": "-"
    },
    {
      "sense": "all sense",
      "word": "often used for its ease"
    },
    {
      "roman": "interpunct",
      "sense": "distinguish syllables",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "word": "·"
    },
    {
      "qualifier": "hide letters",
      "sense": "hide letters",
      "word": "–"
    },
    {
      "qualifier": "hide letters",
      "sense": "hide letters",
      "word": "e"
    },
    {
      "qualifier": "hide letters",
      "sense": "hide letters",
      "word": "n"
    },
    {
      "qualifier": "hide letters",
      "sense": "hide letters",
      "word": "-"
    },
    {
      "qualifier": "hide letters",
      "sense": "hide letters",
      "word": "d"
    },
    {
      "qualifier": "hide letters",
      "sense": "hide letters",
      "word": "a"
    },
    {
      "qualifier": "hide letters",
      "sense": "hide letters",
      "word": "s"
    },
    {
      "qualifier": "hide letters",
      "sense": "hide letters",
      "word": "h"
    },
    {
      "roman": "en-dash",
      "sense": "connecting compounds",
      "word": "–"
    },
    {
      "sense": "connecting compounds",
      "word": "when the constituent parts already contain hyphens"
    }
  ],
  "word": "‐"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English conjunctions",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English punctuation marks"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "conjunction"
      },
      "expansion": "‐",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "conj",
  "related": [
    {
      "alt": "'; ’",
      "word": "apostrophe"
    },
    {
      "word": "curly brackets"
    },
    {
      "alt": "{ }",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "word": "brace"
    },
    {
      "word": "square bracket"
    },
    {
      "alt": "[ ]",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "word": "bracket"
    },
    {
      "alt": ":",
      "word": "colon"
    },
    {
      "alt": ",",
      "word": "comma"
    },
    {
      "alt": "‒; –; —; ―",
      "word": "dash"
    },
    {
      "alt": "…",
      "word": "ellipsis"
    },
    {
      "alt": "!",
      "word": "exclamation mark"
    },
    {
      "alt": "⁄",
      "word": "fraction slash"
    },
    {
      "alt": "« »; ‹ ›",
      "word": "guillemet"
    },
    {
      "alt": "-; ‐",
      "word": "hyphen"
    },
    {
      "alt": "·",
      "word": "interpunct"
    },
    {
      "alt": "‽",
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "interrobang"
    },
    {
      "word": "bracket"
    },
    {
      "word": "parentheses (US"
    },
    {
      "alt": "( )",
      "word": "Canada)"
    },
    {
      "word": "full stop"
    },
    {
      "alt": ".",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US"
      ],
      "word": "period"
    },
    {
      "alt": "?",
      "word": "question mark"
    },
    {
      "alt": "‘ ’ ‚; „",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ],
      "word": "quotation marks"
    },
    {
      "alt": "\"; '",
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "word": "quotation marks"
    },
    {
      "alt": ";",
      "word": "semicolon"
    },
    {
      "word": "slash"
    },
    {
      "alt": "/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "word": "stroke"
    },
    {
      "alt": "] [",
      "word": "space"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "secretary-general; yellow-green; a here-today-gone-tomorrow attitude; kitchen-dinette-office"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Joins the components of compounds.",
        "Joins the components of coordinative compounds, with equal components."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "compound",
          "compound#English"
        ],
        [
          "coordinative",
          "coordinative#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "a has-been; cholesterol-free; short-changing"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Joins the components of compounds.",
        "Joins the components of subordinative compounds, with a dominant component or head."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "compound",
          "compound#English"
        ],
        [
          "subordinative",
          "subordinative#English"
        ],
        [
          "head",
          "head#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "joining components of coordinative compounds",
      "word": "and"
    },
    {
      "sense": "joining components of coordinative compounds",
      "word": "hyphen"
    },
    {
      "sense": "joining components of coordinative compounds",
      "word": "-hyphen-"
    },
    {
      "sense": "joining components of coordinative compounds",
      "word": "cum"
    },
    {
      "sense": "joining components of coordinative compounds",
      "word": "-cum-"
    },
    {
      "sense": "joining components of coordinative compounds",
      "word": "/"
    },
    {
      "sense": "joining components of coordinative compounds",
      "word": "slash"
    }
  ],
  "word": "‐"
}

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