Hyphenate: alternatives and connections

A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the…

A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or t…

That part of the large intestines which extends from the caecum to the rectum. [See Illust of Digestion.]

A character or point [,] marking the smallest divisions of a sentence, written or printed.

To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against.

Joining two not adjacent angles of a quadrilateral or multilateral figure; running across from corner to corner; crossing at an angle…

omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences

An animated or passionate exclamation.

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

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

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

Half an em, that is, half of the unit of space in measuring printed matter. See Em.

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…

A loud calling or crying out; outcry; loud or emphatic utterance; vehement vociferation; clamor; that which is cried out, as an expres…

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

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

Filled up, having within its limits all that it can contain; supplied; not empty or vacant; -- said primarily of hollow vessels, and h…

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