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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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Make sounds (clicks, buzzes, rings) that stand for periods, commas and exclamation marks like the late, great entertainer Victor Borge did. No less than six exclamation marks all in a row--the literary equivalent of a time-stretched vocal that trails off into silence, because, of course, the image remains inaccessible to us, cultishly sealed within another medium. 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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