- “Haifa?” neighed Ted. “I’ve heard it’s done with a dash!” - Haifa? Nay, Ted, they say it’s done with a dash - inserted dashes - Joined with punctuation mark - United by hyphens; hyphened; as, a hyphenated or
hyphened word.
- Fridge or pram, for instance, save space - Shortening - The shortening of a word or text - The act of shortening, or reducing. - The result of abbreviating; an abridgment. - The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by
contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or
phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for
United States of America. - One dash, or more, through the stem of a note,
dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or
demi-semiquavers.
- Dash - Dash away from Murphy? Phenomenal! - Mark joins words like some flashy phenomena - Punctuation mark - 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. - To connect with, or separate by, a hyphen, as two words
or the parts of a word.