Crossword clues for ampersand
ampersand
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ampersand \Am"per*sand\, n. [A corruption of and, per se and, i.
e., & by itself makes and.]
A word used to describe the character ?, ?, or &.
--Halliwell.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1837, contraction of and per se and, meaning "(the character) '&' by itself is 'and' " (a hybrid phrase, partly in Latin, partly in English). The symbol is based on the Latin word et "and," and comes from an old Roman system of shorthand signs (ligatures), attested in Pompeiian graffiti, but not (as sometimes stated) from the Tironian Notes, which was a different form of shorthand, probably invented by Cicero's companion Marcus Tullius Tiro, which used a different symbol, something like a reversed capital gamma, to indicate et.\n
\nThis Tironian symbol was maintained by some medieval scribes, including Anglo-Saxon chroniclers, who sprinkled their works with a symbol like a numeral 7 to indicate the word and. In old schoolbooks the ampersand was printed at the end of the alphabet and thus by 1880s had acquired a slang sense of "posterior, rear end, hindquarters."
Wiktionary
n. The symbol "&".
WordNet
n. a punctuation mark (&) used to represent conjunction (and)
Wikipedia
Ampersand is a typographical symbol (&).
Ampersand may also refer to:
- Ampersand Communications, a Liverpool-based company
- Ampersand (magazine), a student newspaper at Wyższa Szkoła Biznesu – National-Louis University
- Ampersand Mountain, a mountain in New York State
- Ampersand Network, a not-for-profit organization
- BAE Systems Ampersand, an unmanned autonomous flight system
Usage examples of "ampersand".
Special Operations volunteers endured, everyone in the Ampersand group was grateful for the program of calisthenics, combat sports, and Swimming that Major Warren had imposed during the months at Gatehouse.
Hence, none of the Ampersand group who arrived at the submarine school in the second week of January needed any introduction to flippers, masks, wet suits, dry suits, or underwater breathing apparatus.
Each of the three pairs making up the Ampersand operation would be told only their own cover identities and route into Germany.
It meant that the equipment would be transported separately by people who were considered more expendable than the six Ampersand specialists.
Lindemann called them, and after at least one of the Ampersand pairs had found its contact.
If need arose, the Ampersand operation could be halted anytime within the next week-Ferracini and Cassidy at Rome by a message to the American Consulate there, and by similar means in the cases of the others.
Nevertheless, to be on the safe side, the Ampersand group had decided to infiltrate separately.
Since nobody was going to come looking for them, and knowing that the four others of the Ampersand party ought to have arrived in the vicinity, they had spent two weeks driving brazenly around Weissenberg and the surrounding area in the hope of spotting one of the group or of being recognized themselves.
Hitler would be getting the A-bombs, and therefore Ampersand had failed.
The Ampersand troops, who had memorized every detail of that layout, stared in astonishment and elation.
In response to further questions, the Ampersand soldiers filled in details of the operation at Weissenberg, and Warren described briefly his return to England by submarine with the Knackes.
She was at it all week for more than eight hours a day, until her back and neck ached, and ragged curls of unfurling ampersands swam across her vision.
MMMMMMMM> replied the computer, adding two rows of ampersands by way of salt in the wound.
The only way to fit the beast into the shallow freezer compartment of my refrigerator was to pretzel the long limp corpse into the shape of an ampersand.