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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | A rule occupying the full width of the em of any nominal type size, used for a long dash. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Indication | Keyboard symbols, printing symbols; red letter, italics, sublineation, underlining, bold font; jotting; note, annotation, reference; blaze, cedilla, guillemets, hachure; quotation marks, double quotes,"", parentheses, brackets, braces, curly brackets, arrows, slashes; left parenthesis, "("; right parenthesis, ")"; opening bracket, ""; left curly brace, "{"; right curly brace, "}"; left arrow, ""; right arrow, ""; forward slash, "/"; backward slash, "\"; exclamation point, "!"; commercial at, "@"; pound sign, "#"; percent sign, "%"; carat, "^"; ampersand, "&"; asterisk, ""; hyphen, "-"; dash, "-", "_"; em dash, "--"; plus sign, "+", equals sign, "="; question mark, "?"; period, "."; semicolon, ";", colon, ":"; comma, ","; apostrophe, "'"; single quote, "'"; tilde, "~". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "EM DASH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | lang tankestreg (em rule). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | em-regel (em rule), kastlijntje (em rule). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | m-viiva (em rule), ajatusviiva (dash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tiret cadratin (em rule). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Geviertstrich (em rule). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κανόνας του εμ (em rule), παύλα του εμ (em rule). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tratto che occupa un quadratino (em rule). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emay ashday travessão quadratim (em rule), travessão (blank, dash, main, transom, traverse). (various references) guión largo (em rule), guión de longitud m (em rule). (various references) tankstreck (dash, rule), långt minus (em rule), helfyrkantsminus (em rule). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: mashed, shamed. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-m-s" | |
-1 letter: ashed, dames, deash, hades, haems, hames, heads, meads, sadhe, shade, shame. | |
-2 letters: ahem, dahs, dame, dams, dash, edhs, hade, haed, haem, haes, hame, hams, head, hems, made, mads, maes, mash, mead, mesa, mesh, sade, same, seam, shad, sham, shea, shed. | |
-3 letters: ads, ash, dah, dam, edh, eds, ems, had, hae, ham, has, hem. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-m-s" | |
+1 letter: ashamed, chasmed, lamedhs, shammed, smashed. | |
+2 letters: ambushed, beshamed, chamades, famished, handsome, headmost, headsman, headsmen, herdsman, madhouse, masthead, misheard, semihard, shambled, shammied, shamoyed, unshamed. | |
+3 letters: ashamedly, chamoised, chlamydes, deathsman, deathsmen, demarches, drumheads, dumbheads, halidomes, handsomer, headlamps, headrooms, hebdomads, homelands, homestead, homewards, housemaid, humanised, madhouses, marshaled, mastheads, meatheads, menhadens, methadons, mishandle, misshaped, mustached, outshamed, rhabdomes, shampooed, stomached, unashamed, wampished. | |
| 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)45 4D      44 41 53 48 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01001101 00100000 01000100 01000001 01010011 01001000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E M   D A S H |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 004D      0044 0041 0053 0048 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3947238355342 |
| 1. Translations: Modern 2. Anagrams 3. Orthography 4. Bibliography |
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