Phrase guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
The symbol ~, resembling a tilde or curvy hyphen, used to indicate the repetition of a previous item.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
a punctuation mark used in text to indicate the omission of a word
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: punctuation, punctuation mark
History
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Across languages
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
