| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb hyphen.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (hyphen) | 1. Divide or connect with a hyphen; "hyphenate these words and names".[Wordnet]. 2. To connect with, or separate by, a hyphen, as two words or the parts of a word.[Websters]. 3. Base verb from the following inflections: hyphening, hyphened, hyphens, hyphener, hypheners, hypheningly and hyphenedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "HYPHENING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: hyphen
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Noun] A mark or short line made between two words to show that they form a compound word,or are to be connected; as in pre-occupied; five-leafed; ink-stand. In writing and printing, the hyphen is used to connect the syllables of a divided word, and is placed after the syllable that closes a line, denoting the connection of that syllable or part of a word with the first syllable of the next line.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Computing | One of the special characters in a standard character set such as ASCII or EBCDIC. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Technology | In printing, the shortest rule used as punctuation. Also used to join the parts of a compound name (Jean-Pierre) or compound word (dog-eared), and to divide a long word at the end of a line of written or printed text. Compare with dash. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | [Noun] Symbol "-", typically used to join two related words to form a compound noun, or to indicate that a word has been split at the end of a line. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: hyphen
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Double hyphen | The double hyphen is a punctuation mark, consisting of two parallel hyphens. It should not be confused with similarly-looking equals sign (=), which is a mathematical symbol indicating equality, or with two consecutive hyphens (--). (references) | ||
| Hyphen War | The Hyphen War (in Czech Pomlčková válka, in Slovak Pomlčková vojna — literally "Dash War") was the tongue-in-cheek name given to the conflict over what to call Czechoslovakia after the fall of Communism. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: hyphen
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Required hyphen | Computing | A hyphen that must appear on output, as other graphic characters. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: hyphen | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Hyphen | 51 | Double hyphen | 6 | |
| Hyphen (magazine) | 12 | Hyphen | 51 | |
| Hyphen War | 8 | Hyphen (magazine) | 12 | |
| Double hyphen | 6 | Hyphen Barb | 4 | |
| Hyphen Barb | 4 | Hyphen War | 8 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
