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EM DASH

Specialty Definition: EM DASH

DomainDefinition

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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.

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Synonyms within Context: EM DASH

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Modern Translation: EM DASH

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

   

Portuguese

  

travessão quadratim (em rule), travessão (blank, dash, main, transom, traverse). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

guión largo (em rule), guión de longitud m (em rule). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tankstreck (dash, rule), långt minus (em rule), helfyrkantsminus (em rule). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: EM DASH

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.

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Alternative Orthography: EM DASH


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 4D      44 41 53 48

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01001101 00100000 01000100 01000001 01010011 01001000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#77 &#32 &#68 &#65 &#83 &#72

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 004D      0044 0041 0053 0048

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3947238355342

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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