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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

en · SYM

Meanings

  1. Used in a compound term when the constituent parts are already hyphenated.
    • high-priority–high-pressure tasks
  2. Used to hide letters
    • G–d for God
  3. Used to connect compound terms with the sense of "to" or to show a relationship
    • blood–brain barrier
    • The Boston–Washington race
  4. Used to connect a spaced or hyphenated term.
    • Argent the capitalist, Leeson implies, much more overtly than was possible for Stevenson, who lacked the benefit of hindsight which informs Leeson’s late–twentieth-century text, that capitalism is a form of piracy. 1998: John Stephens and Robyn McCallum, Retelling Stories, Framing Culture: Traditional Story and Metanarratives in Children’s Literature, page 182 (Routledge; →ISBN)
    • Further, this socialization implores black Memphians to strive to challenge the increasingly complex structural inequalities of race and class in the post–civil rights era. 2014 April 15, Zandria F[elice] Robinson, “Post-Soul Blues”, in This Ain’t Chicago: Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South, Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 78:
    • The glass doors open and you are greeted by a walkie-talkie–carrying personal assistant in a Star Trek–ish designer black tracksuit who whisks you to a pod seating booth in the bar. 2006, Alison Culliford, Night+Day Paris (Cool Cities), Pulse Guides, →ISBN, page 59:

Synonyms

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Source: en.wiktionary, “–” (symbol), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
LemmaLanguagePart of speech
^enADP
~enSYM
==enCCONJ
enPUNCT
-'enPART
!enSYM
?enNOUN
?enADJ
·enSYM
'enPART
'enSYM
enSYM
‘ ’enPUNCT
enPUNCT
“ ”enPUNCT
@ 3enCCONJ
@ 1enVERB
@ 1enNOUN
@ 1enADP
@ 2enSYM
@ 3enSYM
@$$enNOUN
$$$enNOUN
*enSYM
&enCCONJ
%enX
+enCCONJ
++enX
ɢenSYM
ɤenSYM
ɴenSYM
ɶenSYM
ʀenSYM
ʉenSYM
ʏenSYM
ʜenSYM
ʹenSYM
enSYM
enSYM
enSYM
enSYM
enSYM
enSYM
enSYM
enPUNCT
enSYM
enSYM
enSYM
enNOUN
◌̆enSYM

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