hyphenate
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to break a word at the end of a line according to the hyphenation rules by adding a…
to break a word at the end of a line according to the hyphenation rules by adding a hyphen on the end of the line.
to join words or syllables with a hyphen.
- you have to hyphenate his surname as it's double-barrelled
A person or object with multiple duties, abilities or characteristics, such as…
A person or object with multiple duties, abilities or characteristics, such as "writer-director", "actor-model", or "singer-songwriter".
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A person whose ethnicity is a multi-word hyphenated term, such as "African-American".
- We seem to have settled on African-American, and at first glance it certainly does seem logical. […] Not to mention what happens when hyphenates marry other hyphenates and have baby hyphenates.
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Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at hyphenate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at hyphenate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
5 hops · closes at hyphenate
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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