Definition of Hyphen. Meaning of Hyphen. Synonyms of Hyphen

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Definition of Hyphen

Hyphen
Hyphen Hy"phen, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? 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 a word, the remainder of which is carried to the next line; or between the parts of many a compound word; as in fine-leaved, clear-headed. It is also sometimes used to separate the syllables of words.
Hyphen
Hyphen Hy"phen, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hyphened; p. pr. & vb. n. Hyphening.] To connect with, or separate by, a hyphen, as two words or the parts of a word.

Meaning of Hyphen from 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. Son-in-law...
- The hyphen-minus symbol - is the form of hyphen most commonly used in digital do****ents. On most keyboards, it is the only character that resembles a...
- to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the en dash –, generally longer than the hyphen but shorter...
- the double hyphen ⹀ is a punctuation mark that consists of two parallel hyphens. It was a development of the earlier double oblique hyphen ⸗, which developed...
- Hyphen Hyphen is a French electropop band from Nice. Santa sings in English with Line and Adam. Their albums — Times, HH, and C'est La Vie — hyphenate...
- Look up hyphen or - in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The hyphen is a punctuation mark. Hyphen may also refer to: Hyphen-minus (-), one computer character...
- In computing and typesetting, a soft hyphen (Unicode U+00AD SOFT HYPHEN (­)) or syllable hyphen, is a code point reserved in some coded character sets...
- SIGN U+002D - HYPHEN-MINUS U+FE63 ﹣ SMALL HYPHEN-MINUS U+FE62 ﹢ SMALL PLUS SIGN U+FF0B + FULLWIDTH PLUS SIGN U+FF0D - FULLWIDTH HYPHEN-MINUS There is...
- The Hyphen War (Czech: Pomlčková válka; Slovak: Pomlčková vojna, lit. 'Dash War') was the political conflict over what to call the country of Czechoslovakia...
- Hyphen is an American print and online magazine, founded in 2002 by a group of San Francisco Bay Area journalists, activists, and artists including Melissa...