Punctuate

Definition: Punctuate

Punctuate

Verb

1. Insert punctuation marks into.

2. To stress, single out as important: "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet.".

3. Interrupt periodically; "Her sharp questions punctuated the speaker's drone".

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

Date "punctuate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1843. (references)

Note: Punctuate \Punc"tu*ate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Punctuated; present participle verb or noun Punctuating.]. (references)

Synonyms: Punctuate

Grammar

Noun: grammar, accidence, syntax, praxis, punctuation; parts of speech; jussive; syllabication; inflection, case, declension, conjugation; us et norma loquendi; Lindley Murray; (schoolbook); correct style, philology; (language). Verb: parse, punctuate, syllabicate.

Crosswords: Punctuate

Books

• How to Punctuate, Grades 1-3 (reference)

• I Can Punctuate (reference)

• Punctuate It Right! (Punctuate It Right!, 2nd Ed) (reference)

• The way to punctuate (reference)

• Type to punctuate (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Economic History

Samoa

Two major cyclones hit Samoa at the beginning of the 1990s. Cyclone Ofa left an estimated 10,000 islanders homeless in February 1990; Cyclone Val caused 13 deaths and hundreds of millions of dollars in damage in December 1991. As a result, GDP declined by nearly 50% from 1989 to 1991. These experiences and Samoa's position as a low-lying island state punctuate its concern about global climate change. (references)

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Albanian

vë shenjat e pikësimit, theksoj (accentuate, emphasize, highlight, point, sharpen, stress), ndërpres (abort, break, break up, call, cease, cut off, desist, discontinue, heckle, intercept, interjaculate, intermit, interrupt, intersect, leave off, stop, strangulate, suspend), nënvizoj (accentuate, dash, emphasize, highlight, italicize, score under, stress, underline, underscore). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نقط (dapple, dot, fleck, mottle, pit, point, speck, speckle, sprinkle, stipple, trickle), ‏قاطع بين فترة و أخرى, ‏أكد (accentuate, affirm, assert, asseverate, assure, aver, avouch, bear out, check up on, confirm, contend, corroborate, declare, double check, emphasize, predicate, proclaim, profess, protest, show, substantiate, swear, underline, underscore, vouch, warrant), ‏رقم (figure, number, page), ‏شكل (accentuate, boil, cast, categorize, comprise, constitute, dot, fashion, form, formalize, format, frame, guise, likeness, make, modality, mode, model, mold, mould, put together, semblance, shape, sort, style, trace, vocalize, way). (various references)

Bulgarian 

слагам препинателни знаци (point), прекъсвам от време на време, придружавам (accompany, attend, convoy, escort, gallant, go with, see, squire, string along with, wait on), подсилвам (buttress, enforce, fortify, invigorate, recruit, reinforce, stiffen, strengthen, tone up, touch up, undergird). (various references)

Chinese 

� � �点 (Punctuated, Punctuating), 標點 (punctuation). (various references)

Czech

přerušit řeè, opatřit znaménky. (various references)

Dutch

leestekens plaatsen. (various references)

Esperanto

punkti, interpunkcii. (various references)

Farsi 

نقطه گذاری کردن 2, نقطه دار, نشان گذاری کردن . (various references)

Finnish

pilkuttaa (dot), panna välimerkit. (various references)

French

ponctuer, parsemer. (various references)

German

unterstreichen (emphasize, point up, to emphasize, to underline, underline, underscore). (various references)

Greek 

στίζω (mottle, speck, speckle, spot). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפסק (disconnect, phrase), ל� ק�" (point, vocalize, vowel). (various references)

Hungarian

kihangsúlyoz (emphasize, highlight, stress, to accentuate, to bring out, to emphasize, to enhance, to heighten, to highlight, to punctuate, to set off, to underline, underscore), központoz, írásjelekkel ellát (to point, to punctuate). (various references)

Indonesian

menjelaskan (illustrate, illustrative). (various references)

Italian

punteggiare (Dot, point, spot, stipple). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

区切る (to cut off, to mark off, to punctuate, to put an end to, to stop), 句�'切る (to punctuate a sentence), 句切る (to cut off, to mark off, to punctuate, to put an end to, to stop). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くぎる (to cut off, to mark off, to punctuate, to put an end to, to stop), く�'きる (to punctuate a sentence). (various references)

Manx

punkaghey (punctuation). (various references)

Pig Latin

unctuatepay.(various references)

Portuguese

pontuar (point). (various references)

Romanian

puncta (Dot, emphasize, point, punch, record, score, tick), presãra (asperse, Dot, dredge, interlard, intersperse, lard, sand, scatter, spread, sprinkle, strew), sublinia (accent, accentuate, aver, emphasize, italicize, represent, score, stress, underline, underscore). (various references)

Russian 

ставить знаки препинания, прерывать (break, cut short, decease and desist, discontinue, heckle, intercept, intercut, intermit, interrupt, leave off, truncate), подчеркивать (accentuate, emphasize, italicize, lay emphasis on, lay stress, place emphasis on, put emphasis on, score under, stress, underline, underscore), перемежать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

punktirati (tap), upasti (buck, crash, drop in, fall into, intrude, invade), staviti znake interpunkcije. (various references)

Spanish

puntuar. (various references)

Swedish

punktera (Dot, puncture, stipple), kommatera. (various references)

Turkish

sözünü kesmek (break in, chip in, cut in, cut smb. short, interrupt, put in a word, take smb. up short, take up), noktalamak (Dot, point, stop, vocalize), noktalama işaretlerini koymak, lâfını kesmek, araya girmek (come between, go between, intercede, interfere, interpose, intervene, mediate, put in, put in a word). (various references)

Ukrainian

ставити розділові знаки, підкреслювати (accent, accentuate, emphasize, italicize, point up, stress, underline, underscore), перебивати (throw out). (various references)

Welsh

atalnodi (point). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "punctuate": punctuated, punctuates. (additional references)

Words containing "punctuate": unpunctuated. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Punctuate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pinctada, punctate, punctatum, punctulata, puncuate, puntuate. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: punctate.

-3 letters: attune, nutate, patent, patten, peanut, tauten, teacup, tuneup, uncute.

-4 letters: acute, caput, centu, cutup, enact, epact, paten, pecan, tacet, taunt, taupe, tecta, unapt, uncap, uncut.

-5 letters: acne, ante, aunt, cane, cant, cape, cate, cent, cute, etna, nape, neap, neat, nett, pace, pact, pane, pant, pate, pean, peat, pent, puce, puna, punt, putt.

+1 letter: punctuated, punctuates.

+3 letters: unpunctuated.

+4 letters: punctualities, quintuplicate, repunctuation.

+5 letters: quintuplicated, quintuplicates, repunctuations.