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See also: [U+2010 HYPHEN], - [U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS], [U+2212 MINUS SIGN], [U+2014 EM DASH], [U+2015 HORIZONTAL BAR], and [U+4E00 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E00]
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Translingual

Punctuation mark

(English name en dash) (Alt + 0150)

  1. Indicates ranges.
    610 yearssix to ten years
    • 1881 March–April, Frederick Schwatka, “In the Land of the Midnight Sun”, in Good Company, volume VII, number XIX, XX (in English), Springfield, Mass., →OCLC, part III (The Franklin Search of 1878–79–80), page 11, column 2:
      The American Franklin Search Party of 18787980 originated in information supposed to have been obtained by American whalers prosecuting their vocations in Repulse Bay, Rae’s Welcome, and other estuaries of North Hudson’s Bay.
  2. Indicates items in a list.
    Things to buy:
    Toilet paper
    Towels
  3. Alternative form of (indicates a quotation or a line of dialogue).
    Could you direct me to the bus station?
    It's just on your right at the end of the road.
    • 2005, John Aberdein, “The Speckled Slope”, in Amande’s Bed (in English), Edinburgh: Thirsty Books, →ISBN, page 303:
      Heave me up that haversack, Annie. / What’s in? / Ye’ll see. / M’hungry.

Symbol

  1. (poetry) Alternative form of

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:–.

See also

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English

Symbol

  1. Used in a compound term when the constituent parts are already hyphenated.
    high-priorityhigh-pressure tasks
  2. Used to hide letters
    Gd for God
  3. Used to connect compound terms with the sense of "to" or to show a relationship
    The BostonWashington race
    bloodbrain barrier
  4. Used to connect a spaced or hyphenated term.
    • 1998: John Stephens and Robyn McCallum, Retelling Stories, Framing Culture: Traditional Story and Metanarratives in Children’s Literature, page 182 (Routledge; →ISBN
      Argent the capitalist, Leeson implies, much more overtly than was possible for Stevenson, who lacked the benefit of hindsight which informs Leeson’s latetwentieth-century text, that capitalism is a form of piracy.
    • 2006, Alison Culliford, Night+Day Paris (Cool Cities), Pulse Guides, →ISBN, page 59:
      The glass doors open and you are greeted by a walkie-talkiecarrying personal assistant in a Star Trekish designer black tracksuit who whisks you to a pod seating booth in the bar.
    • 2014 April 15, Zandria F[elice] Robinson, “Post-Soul Blues”, in This Ain’t Chicago: Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South, Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 78:
      Further, this socialization implores black Memphians to strive to challenge the increasingly complex structural inequalities of race and class in the postcivil rights era.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:–.

Synonyms

  • (hide letters): (hyphen)
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German

Symbol

  1. Used to replace two zeroes after the decimal point in monetary values in running text (in tables, the em dash is used).
    Dieses Gerät kostet 12,– DM.
  2. Used to replace a zero before the decimal point, i. e. for monetary values below 1.
    Diese Packung Milch kostet –,89 DM.

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Lithuanian

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