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Ellipsis

Omission; a figure of syntax, by which one or more words, which are obviously understood, are omitted; as, the virtues I admire, for, the virtues which I admire.

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Deletion 76% connected

Act of deleting, blotting out, or erasing; destruction.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Omission 76% connected

The act of omitting; neglect or failure to do something required by propriety or duty.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Apostrophe noun · 78% connection

the mark (‘'’) used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word

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Bolt noun · 78% connection

the act of moving with great haste; "he made a dash for the door"

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Colon noun · 78% connection

the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted

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Comma noun · 78% connection

a punctuation mark (‘,’) used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence

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Dash noun · 78% connection

the act of moving with great haste; "he made a dash for the door"

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Diagonal noun · 78% connection

a punctuation mark (‘/’) used to separate related items of information

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Eclipsis noun · 78% connection

omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences

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Ecphonesis noun · 78% connection

an exclamatory rhetorical device; "exclamation such as ‘O tempore! O mores’"

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Em noun · 78% connection

a quad with a square body; "since ‘em quad’ is hard to distinguish from ‘en quad’, printers sometimes called it a ‘mutton quad’"

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Em quad noun · 78% connection

a quad with a square body; "since ‘em quad’ is hard to distinguish from ‘en quad’, printers sometimes called it a ‘mutton quad’"

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En noun · 78% connection

half the width of an em

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En dash noun · 78% connection

a dash that is one-half the length of an em dash.; "The en dash is commonly used to indicate a closed range of values — a range with c…

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Exclamation noun · 78% connection

an exclamatory rhetorical device; "exclamation such as ‘O tempore! O mores’"

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Exclamation mark noun · 78% connection

a punctuation mark (‘!’) used after an exclamation

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Exclamation point noun · 78% connection

a punctuation mark (‘!’) used after an exclamation

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Full verb · 78% connection

beat for the purpose of cleaning and thickening; "full the cloth"

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Full point noun · 78% connection

a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations; "in England they…

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Full stop noun · 78% connection

a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations; "in England they…

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Absurd adjective · 78% connection

Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and fiatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense;…

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Admire verb · 78% connection

To regard with wonder and delight; to look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem…

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Admired imp. & p. p. · 78% connection

of Admire

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Admiring p. pr. & vb. n. · 78% connection

of Admire

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Admit verb · 78% connection

To be capable of; to permit; as, the words do not admit such a construction. In this sense, of may be used after the verb, or may be o…

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Apparently adverb · 78% connection

unmistakably (‘plain’ is often used informally for ‘plainly’); "the answer is obviously wrong"; "she was in bed and evidently in great…

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Apposition noun · 78% connection

The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Her…

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Asterisk noun · 78% connection

The figure of a star, thus, /, used in printing and writing as a reference to a passage or note in the margin, to supply the omission…

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Bewonder verb · 78% connection

To wonder at; to admire.

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Checking program noun · 78% connection

a program that examines other computer programs for syntax errors

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Chlorophyta noun · 78% connection

large division of chiefly freshwater eukaryotic algae that possess chlorophyll a and b, store food as starch, and cellulose cell walls…

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Clitic noun · 78% connection

a word that is treated in pronunciation as forming a part of a neighboring word and that is often unaccented or contracted.; "Most lan…

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