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Exclamation Mark

Definition: Exclamation Mark

Exclamation Mark

Noun

1. A punctuation mark (!) used after an exclamation.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Specialty Definitions: Exclamation Mark

DomainDefinitions

Computing

Exclamation mark The character "!" with ASCII code 33. Common names: bang; pling; excl (/eks'kl/); shriek; ITU-T: exclamation mark. Rare: factorial; exclam; smash; cuss; boing; yell; wow; hey; wham; eureka; soldier; INTERCAL: spark-spot. The Commonwealth Hackish, "pling", is common among Acorn Archimedes owners. Bang is more common in the USA. The occasional CMU usage, "shriek", is also used by APL fans and mathematicians, especially category theorists. Exclamation mark is used in C and elsewhere as the logical negation operation (NOT). (1998-09-17). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Exclamation Mark

Synonym: exclamation point (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Exclamation Mark

English words defined with "exclamation mark": Ecphoneme, exclamation point ♦ Note of admiration. (references)
Specialty definitions using "exclamation mark": bang path ♦ excl ♦ pling. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Exclamation Mark

DomainTitle

Books

  • Period, Question Mark, Exclamation Mark (Horizons Ii) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Exclamation Mark

Computer Images:
Exclamation Mark

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Exclamation Mark

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  exclamation mark

13
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Exclamation Mark

Language Translations for "exclamation mark"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

pikëçuditëse. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏علامة تعجب (exclamation, interjection), ‏علامة الهتاف. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

удивителен знак. (various references)

   

Czech

  

vykřièník (exclamation man). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

huutomerkki, huutomatka. (various references)

   

French

  

point d'exclamation (note of exclamation, point of exclamation). (various references)

   

German

  

Ausrufungszeichen (heart and dart moth, note of exclamation, point of exclamation), ausrufezeichen (heart and dart moth). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

θαυμαστικό. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

סימן קריא". (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

felkiáltójel (exclamation point). (various references)

   

Italian

  

esclamativo. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

感歎符 (exclamation point), 感嘆符 (exclamation point). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

か"た"ふ (exclamation point). (various references)

   

Manx

  

cowrey yllee. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

exclamationay arkmay

   

Portuguese

  

exclamação (cheer, eject, interlace, shout), pontodeexclamação. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

semn de exclamaţie (note of exclamation). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

восклицательный знак (exclamation point, screamer). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

znak uzvika, uskličnik (interjection). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

signo de admiración, símbolo de admiración. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

utropstecken (exclamationmark). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ünlem işareti (note of exclamation, point of exclamation). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Exclamation Mark

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-e-i-k-l-m-m-n-o-r-t-x"

-4 letters: analemmatic, exclamation, reclamation.

-5 letters: ammoniacal, anatomical, catamenial, laceration, maceration, manometric, melanomata, relaxation.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Exclamation Mark


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

45 78 63 6C 61 6D 61 74 69 6F 6E      4D 61 72 6B

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

    

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

01000101 01111000 01100011 01101100 01100001 01101101 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 00100000 01001101 01100001 01110010 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#120 &#99 &#108 &#97 &#109 &#97 &#116 &#105 &#111 &#110 &#32 &#77 &#97 &#114 &#107

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0078 0063 006C 0061 006D 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E      004D 0061 0072 006B

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

3990697867796786758180247678477

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial 		5. Images: Slideshow
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams 		9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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