hyphen
Part of speech: noun
conj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Late Latin, from Ancient Greek ὑφέν (huphén, “together”), contracted from ὑφ’ ἕν (huph’ hén, “under one”), from ὑπό (hupó, “under”) + ἕν (hén, “one”), neuter of εἷς (heîs, “one”).
Inflected forms:
form: hyphens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The symbol "‐", typically used to join two or more words to form a compound term, or to indicate that a word has been split at the end of a line.
pos: noun
examples: As the proud owner of my very own hyphen in a lovingly crafted surname, I have an especial soft spot for this most confusing of punctuation marks.
gloss: Something which links two things of greater significance than itself.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Cunliffe and Karunanayake (2013) developed Fine's notion to introduce potential hyphen spaces that are deeply implicated and reciprocally influential in relationships between researchers and the researched.
gloss: Something which links two things of greater significance than itself.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The hyphens were added, joining the structures into one building, which now measures just over two hundred feet long.
Construction details for the hyphens, or "connecting wings" as they were called by the contractors, were included in the contractors' specifications, as follows:
Those were the “hyphens,” the passageways that connected the wings of the mansion to its center.
gloss: Someone who belongs to a marginalized subgroup, and can therefore described by a hyphenated term, such as "German-American", "female-academic", etc.
pos: noun
examples: Tab has been kept on quite a number of members who rapturously applauded when that part of the message in which the hyphens were attacked was read by the President.
Sign language interpreters fascinate me because their cultural space, "working the hyphens" as Michelle Fine (1994) would call it, and performing in the kind of hybrid third space that Homi Bhabha (1994) has written about resonates often with my own "hard-of-hearing" doubly hyphenated existence in both deaf and hearing worlds.
A leading Republican paper also had, on the eve of the convention, focused attention on this issue by remarking that Hughes was “designated by the Hyphens as their agent to punish Mr. Wilson for his partial refusal to comply with Potsdam orders.
gloss: Used to emphasize the coordinating function usually indicated by the punctuation "-".
pos: conj
examples: You are sitting at the wrong table, if I may be so bold, among the misguided who believe in the mass murder of mentalities, otherwise known as the liberal arts hyphen vocational training hyphen education.
Ax was now a Hollywood hyphenated man. An actor hyphen director hyphen writer.
He described himself as a poet-composer and actually said the word hyphen when he did so: "I'm a poet hyphen composer.
He is an actor (hyphen) writer (hyphen) director. In the fifth year of the series Alan Alda added another title to his growing list — that of creative consultant.
One reason he has avoided reading legal thrillers is that “they seem really to have been written by lawyer-hyphen-authors.”
Derived words: hyphenate
hyphenated
hyphenation
hyphenator
hyphenic
hyphenism
hyphenitis
hyphenize
hyphenless
hyphen-minus
mishyphen
soft hyphen
suspended hyphen
unhyphenate
work the hyphens
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