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Single Quote

Definition: Single Quote

Single Quote

Noun

1. A single quotation mark.

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

Specialty Definitions: Single Quote

Domain	Definitions
Computing	Single quote "'" ASCII character 39. Common names include single quote; quote; ITU-T: apostrophe. Rare: prime; glitch; tick; irk; pop; INTERCAL: spark; ITU-T: closing single quotation mark; ITU-T: acute accent. Single quote is used in C and derived languages to introduce a single character literal value which is represented internally by its ASCII code. In the Unix shells and Perl single quote is used to delimit strings in which variable substitution is not performed (in contrast to double-quote-delimited strings). Single quote is often used in text for both open and close single quotation mark and apostrophe. Typesetters use two different symbols - open has a tail going up, close and apostrophe have tails hanging down (like a raised comma). Some people use back quote (`) for open single quotation mark. (1998-04-04). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms within Context: Single Quote

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.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Single Quote

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
single quote	12
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: Single Quote

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-l-n-o-q-s-t-u"
	-2 letters: outseeing.
	-3 letters: egestion, eloquent, elutions, eugenist, eugenols, eulogies, eulogise, eulogist, gentiles, ligneous, outlines, questing, question, quietens, sleeting, squilgee, steeling, toluenes, tousling.
	-4 letters: elegist, elegits, eloigns, eluents, elusion, eluting, elution, engluts, entoils, equines, equites, etoiles, eugenol, genoise, gentile, gentles, glisten, gluiest, glutens, gunites, igneous, inquest, legions, lentigo, lingoes, lisente, logiest, longest, longies, lounges, lousing.
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.

Alternative Orthography: Single Quote

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

53 69 6E 67 6C 65 51 75 6F 74 65

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

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

01010011 01101001 01101110 01100111 01101100 01100101 00100000 01010001 01110101 01101111 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#108 &#101 &#32 &#81 &#117 &#111 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0069 006E 0067 006C 0065 0051 0075 006F 0074 0065

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

53758073787125187818671

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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