"-" meaning in Translingual

See - in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Character

  1. A long signal, used to form Morse code text, together with . (a short signal). Tags: letter
    Sense id: --mul-character-UXWvhjYW
  2. Visual rendering of Morse code for T. (Latin) Tags: alt-of, letter, morse-code, visual-rendering Alternative form of: T (extra: Latin)
    Sense id: --mul-character-8mA5Qzmy
  3. Visual rendering of Morse code for Т. (Cyrillic) Tags: alt-of, letter, morse-code, visual-rendering Alternative form of: Т (extra: Cyrillic)
    Sense id: --mul-character-SFMFtWII

Symbol

Head templates: {{head|mul|symbol}} -
  1. The hyphen-minus, a catch-all symbol for certain dash and dash-like characters.
    ‐ (hyphen)
    Sense id: --mul-symbol-4hEUh0qA
  2. The hyphen-minus, a catch-all symbol for certain dash and dash-like characters.
    − (minus sign)
    Sense id: --mul-symbol-RhLiRw-l
  3. The hyphen-minus, a catch-all symbol for certain dash and dash-like characters.
    ‒ (figure dash)
    Sense id: --mul-symbol-lnWD3eK8
  4. The hyphen-minus, a catch-all symbol for certain dash and dash-like characters.
    – (en dash)
    Sense id: --mul-symbol-qVbq9TgL
  5. The hyphen-minus, a catch-all symbol for certain dash and dash-like characters.
    — (em dash)
    Sense id: --mul-symbol--4kerGI5
  6. The hyphen-minus, a catch-all symbol for certain dash and dash-like characters.
    ― (horizontal bar)
    Sense id: --mul-symbol-u34qDpVB
  7. The hyphen-minus, a catch-all symbol for certain dash and dash-like characters.
    (sports) skip
    Categories (topical): Sports
    Sense id: --mul-symbol-jvSvdnwZ Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
  8. The hyphen-minus, a catch-all symbol for certain dash and dash-like characters.
    (chemistry) A single bond.
    Categories (topical): Chemistry
    Sense id: --mul-symbol-YxoxKjog Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: ֊ (english: Armenian hyphen), apostrophe (alt: '; ’), curly brackets, brace (alt: {{l|mul|{}} }) [US], square bracket, bracket (alt: [[Unsupported titles/`lsqb`#Translingual|] ]) [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 (alt: ( )) [Canada, US], 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: &)

Alternative forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.