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Word: Asterisk
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late Middle English: via late Latin from Greek asteriskos ‘small star’, diminutive of astēr
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈast(ə)rɪsk
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a symbol (*) used in text as a pointer to an annotation or footnote.
Short Definition:symbol (*) used in text as pointer to annotation or footnote
Word: Asterisk
Speech Type: Verb
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈast(ə)rɪsk
Dialects: British English
Definition:
mark (a word or piece of text) with an asterisk
Short Definition:mark word or piece of text with asterisk
Examples:- he had asterisked the things about the case that still bothered him
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