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exclamation mark US, point n
1. (Linguistics / Grammar) the punctuation mark ! used after exclamations and vehement commands 2. (Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) this mark used for any other purpose, as to draw attention to an obvious mistake, in road warning signs, (in chess commentaries) beside the notation of a move considered a good one, (in mathematics) as a symbol of the factorial function, or (in logic) occurring with an existential quantifier ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Translations exclamation mark, (US) exclamation point n → Ausrufezeichen nt exclamation mark exclamation point (Am) n (Gram) → punto esclamativo exclamation mark exclamation point (Am) n (Gram) → punto esclamativo How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Luciano Pavarotti, Italy's greatest living cultural icon, put an exclamation mark on the Turin Olympics' opening ceremony with an orchestrally backed rendition of Puccini's Nessun Dorma on Friday night. With them in hand as a willing anchor tenant, she then approached Douglas Durst and initiated the development of landmark office building 4 Times Square, a tower that put an exclamation mark on Times Square's amazing revitalization. Truss gives easy to understand instructions as to where and when and how to use such wonderful marks as apostrophes, commas, dashes, colons, semicolons, exclamation marks, ellipses, parentheses, brackets, and more. |
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