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Punctuation mark in the word "two-faced"
Answer for the clue "Punctuation mark in the word "two-faced" ", 6 letters:
hyphen
Alternative clues for the word hyphen
Word definitions for hyphen in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB use ▪ Councillors have suggested using Tees-side using a hyphen to emphasise the name of the river rather than the name of a local authority. ▪ Answer: a. Why: Use hyphens with a prefix and a proper noun. ▪ Answer: a. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hyphen \Hy"phen\ (h[imac]"f[e^]n), n. [L., fr. Gr. "yfe`n, fr. "yf "e`n under one, into one, together, fr. ? under + ?, neut. of ? one. See Hypo- .] (Print.) A mark or short dash, thus [-], placed at the end of a line which terminates with a syllable of ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The hyphen ( ‐ ) is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation . The hyphen should not be confused with dashes ( ‒ , – , — , ― ), which are longer and have different uses, or ...
Usage examples of hyphen.
Sometimes he listed them as we do here, with a hyphen where the ending is to follow, e.
When I discovered a week ago that I could make a true dash by employing the alt key with the hyphen, it was truly one of the red-letter days of my life.
Meanwhile, the distinction between the big bold dash and its little brother the hyphen is evidently blurring these days, and requires explanation.
With astonishing speed, the third alternative is just disappearing, and I have heard that people with double-barrelled names are simply unable to get the concept across these days, because so few people on the other end of a telephone know what a hyphen is.
One of the main uses of the hyphen, of course, is to indicate that a word is unfinished and continues on the next line.
When two or more words are combined to form a compound adjective, a hyphen is usually required.
Obviously, we ask too much of a hyphen when we ask it to cast its spell over words it does not adjoin.
Her rather small lips were set in a bright red hyphen that curved downward just enough at one corner to allow itself to be read as a smirk of amusement, from which she herself was not exempted, at the surrounding tableau of human vanity.
Her face was long, her chin pointed, and her mouth a bright red hyphen, downturned at one corner in a saucy little smirk.
Americans live and like their beverages with a hyphen in it, because, Mawruss, where a hundred per cent.
Hotshot With a Hyphen was the meanest woman Staci Ellen had had the misfortune to meet in all her born days.
State assault-bit, was disastrously involved with one Pamela Hoffman-Jeep, his first girl ever with a hyphen, a sort of upscale but directionless and not very healthy and pale and incredibly passive Danvers girl that worked in Purchasing for a hospital-supply co.
Carefully placed hyphens do not always save the day, however, as I recently had good reason to learn.
It is still necessary to use hyphens when spelling outnumbers, such as thirty-two, forty-nine.
But in our newspapers the compounding-disease lingers a little to the present day, but with the hyphens left out, in the German fashion.