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Definition: Caret |
CaretNoun1. A mark used by an author or editor to indicate where something is to be inserted into a text. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "caret" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | Caret ^ Common: hat; control; uparrow; caret; ITU-T: circumflex. Rare: chevron; INTERCAL: shark (or shark-fin); to the ("to the power of"); fang; pointer (in Pascal). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Business | A mark made on written or printed matter to indicate the place where something is inserted or is to be inserted: an inverted v placed below the line or in the margin. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CARET | English | Computerized anatomical, reconstruction and editing toolkit | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Incompleteness | Phrase: caetera desunt; caret. |
Defect, deficit, defalcation, omission; caret; shortage; interval; break; (discontinuity); noncompletion; missing link. | |
Insufficiency | Want, lack, need, require; caret; be in want; (poor), live from hand to mouth. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Caret |
| Specialty definitions using "caret": PETSCII. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | What else is on your mind besides one hundred proof women, ninety proof whiskey and fourteen caret gold? (The Professionals; writing credit: Richard Brooks; Frank O'Rourke) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
1. Caret, VA |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
caret | 20 |
caret x | 13 |
caret mariah | 4 |
bay caret villa | 3 |
caret va | 2 |
cancun caret x | 2 |
97 access box caret position text | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "caret"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shenjë për të futur diçka në tekst. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | علامة الإقحام فى الكتابة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | коректорски знак (proofreader's mark). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 八字. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vynechávka v rukopise. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | indskudstegn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | caret. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | caret, renvoi, lambda, bourdon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | einschaltungszeichen (carets). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σημείο παράληψης, σημείο παράλειψησ, αγκύλη (ansa, bracket, hook, staple). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | סימן חסר. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hiányjel (apostrophe, blank), beszúrási jel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tanda sisipan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | simbolo di omissione, segno di omissione. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 脱字記号 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | つじき"う. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 탈자기호. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cowrey (attribute, badge, beacon, brand, character, check, denotation, emblem, evidence, feature, gesture, hint, indication, intimation, mark, marque, motion, sign, signal, stamp, symbol, symptom, token, trace, wealth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aretcay circunflexo (circumflex), V invertido, sinal de intercalação, símbolo de intercalação. (various references) semn de omisiune. (various references) знак вставки. (various references) znak za umetanje. (various references) signo de intercalación. (various references) markör (cursor, Mark, marker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "caret": caretake, caretaken, caretaker, caretakers, caretakes, caretaking, caretakings, caretook, carets. (additional references) | |
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"Caret" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acarte, acert, cabet, caget, cairt, cajet, camet, capet, capretto, caract, caraq, carea, careatum, careb, caree, careem, Careg, carem, caren, Carent, careo, carest, Careta, careth, Careto, Caretto, carew, cariat, carit, carnt, carot, Caroto, carrat, Carratu, carre, carrea, carrem, carret, Carrett, carretta, Carretti, carseat, Caruth, Carwelti, Caset, catet, Catraeth, cavet, cavret, cawet, cayent, cayet, cerit, cerot, ceyrek, charet, Charvet, cirat, ciret, Cirith, cisret, coret, corot, corret, Cotret, Crait, creatt, creot, cret, icazet, Jaret, karet, Karte, Mcgarrett, scarett, sharret. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: carte, cater, crate, react, recta, trace. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-r-t" | |
-1 letter: acre, care, cart, cate, race, rate, tace, tare, tear. | |
-2 letters: ace, act, arc, are, art, ate, car, cat, ear, eat, era, eta, rat, rec, ret, tae, tar, tea. | |
-3 letters: ae, ar, at, er, et, re, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-r-t" | |
+1 letter: acuter, canter, carate, carets, carnet, carpet, carted, cartel, carter, cartes, caster, caters, centra, cerate, claret, coater, crated, crater, crates, create, curate, ecarte, nectar, preact, rachet, racket, reacts, recant, recast, rectal, redact, retack, tacker, tanrec, traced, tracer, traces, trance. | |
+2 letters: abreact, accrete, acerate, actress, arcuate, article, batcher, bearcat, brachet, bracket, bracted, cabaret, canters, capture, carates, carnets, carpets, cartage, cartels, carters, casters, catcher, cateran, catered, caterer, cattery, cattier, cautery, centare, centaur, central, cerated, cerates, ceratin, certain, chanter, chapter, charted, charter, chaster, chatter, cheater, cigaret, cirrate, citrate, clarets, clatter, coaster, coaters, cordate, crafted, craters, created, creates, creatin, creator, cremate, crenate, crestal, cristae, curated, curates, curtate, detract, ecartes, enactor, erotica, erratic, exacter, exactor, excreta, extract, facture, fracted, furcate, hatcher, hectare, locater, matcher, nectars, nectary, ocreate, outrace, overact, paretic, patcher, picrate, plectra, preacts, precast, rachets, raciest, rackets, rackety, racquet, ratches, ratchet, reacted, reactor, recants, recasts, rechart, recheat, recital, recrate, redacts, redcoat, reenact, refract, rematch, repatch, restack, retacks, reteach, retrace, retrack, retract, scanter, scarlet, scarted, scatter, sectary, spectra, stacker, stearic, tackers, tackier, tackler, tacrine, tanrecs, teacart, teacher, terrace, theriac, tracers, tracery, trachea, trachle, tracked, tracker, traduce, traject, tranced, trances, tranche, treacle, treacly, uncrate, watcher, yachter. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 72 65 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .-. . - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110010 01100101 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a r e t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0072 0065 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3767847186 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Cities | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Abbreviations 8. Acronyms | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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