Asterisk
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Noun
asterisk
- Symbol (*), used to highlight a particular word or sentence, often to indicate a footnote.
- (sports, US) A blemish in an otherwise outstanding achievement.
- They came into the tournament highly ranked, but with a little bit of an asterisk as their last two wins had been unconvincing.
Translations
- Basque: istartxo
- Dutch: asterisk f, sterretje n
- Finnish: asteriski, tähti, tähti-merkki
- French: astérisque m
- German: Sternchen n
- Interlingua: asterisco
- Italian: asterisco m
- Portuguese: asterisco m
- Spanish: asterisco m
- Swedish: asterisk c
Punctuation
| Symbol | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| ' | apostrophe | |
| [ and ] | bracket (US), square bracket (British) | |
| : | colon | |
| , | comma | |
| — | dash, em rule | |
| – | en rule | |
| ! | exclamation mark | |
| - | hyphen | |
| ( and ) | parenthesis, bracket (British) | |
| . | period (US), full stop (British) | |
| ? | question mark | |
| " or ' | quotation mark, quote, inverted commas (British) | |
| ; | semicolon |
Noun
asterisk f
- Symbol (*), used to highlight a particular word or sentence, often to indicate a footnote.
