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"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": [
{
"categories": [
"Translingual terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2009, Terry Stickels, Math Puzzles and Brainteasers, Grades 3-5: Over 300 Puzzles that Teach Math and Problem-Solving Skills (in English), John Wiley & Sons, page 6",
"roman": "1 4 9 16 25 36 ?",
"text": "What is the next number in the sequence below?",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A placeholder for an unknown word, phrase, text, or numerical value."
],
"links": [
[
"placeholder",
"placeholder"
],
[
"word",
"word"
],
[
"phrase",
"phrase"
],
[
"text",
"text"
],
[
"value",
"value"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"mul:Chess"
],
"glosses": [
"In algebraic notation, marking a bad move."
],
"links": [
[
"chess",
"chess"
],
[
"algebraic notation",
"algebraic notation"
],
[
"bad",
"bad"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(chess) In algebraic notation, marking a bad move."
],
"topics": [
"board-games",
"chess",
"games"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"mul:Programming"
],
"glosses": [
"A wildcard for one character in query language."
],
"links": [
[
"programming",
"programming#Noun"
],
[
"wildcard",
"wildcard"
],
[
"character",
"character"
],
[
"query language",
"query language"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(programming) A wildcard for one character in query language."
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"programming",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"mul:Programming"
],
"glosses": [
"The ternary operator in some programming languages."
],
"links": [
[
"programming",
"programming#Noun"
],
[
"ternary operator",
"ternary operator"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(programming) The ternary operator in some programming languages."
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"programming",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"mul:Regular expressions"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The string colou?r matches both \"color\" and \"colour\"."
}
],
"glosses": [
"Detects zero or one occurrences of the preceding element."
],
"links": [
[
"regular expression",
"regular expression"
],
[
"zero",
"zero"
],
[
"one",
"one"
]
],
"qualifier": "regular expressions",
"raw_glosses": [
"(regular expressions) Detects zero or one occurrences of the preceding element."
]
},
{
"categories": [
"mul:Networking"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Wiktionary:Word_of_the_day&action=view"
}
],
"glosses": [
"In a URL, begins a query string (a series of data formatted as field-value pairs)."
],
"links": [
[
"networking",
"networking#Noun"
],
[
"URL",
"URL"
],
[
"query string",
"query string"
],
[
"data",
"data"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(networking) In a URL, begins a query string (a series of data formatted as field-value pairs)."
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"networking",
"physical-sciences",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"word": "?"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Translingual dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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