ALL meanings of apostrophe
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A a - abbreviation Technical meaning of APOSTROPHE single quote 3
- countable noun apostrophe An apostrophe is the mark ' when it is written to indicate that one or more letters have been left out of a word, as in 'isn't' and 'we'll'. It is also added to nouns to form possessives, as in 'Mike's car'. 3
- noun apostrophe the punctuation mark ' used to indicate the omission of a letter or number, such as he's for he has or he is, also used in English to form the possessive, as in John's father and twenty pounds' worth 3
- noun apostrophe a digression from a discourse, esp an address to an imaginary or absent person or a personification 3
- noun apostrophe words addressed to a person or thing, whether absent or present, generally in an exclamatory digression in a speech or literary writing 3
- noun apostrophe a mark (') used: 3
- noun apostrophe to indicate the omission of a letter or letters from a word or phrase (Ex.: o' for of, it's for it is) 3
- noun apostrophe to form the possessive case of English nouns and some pronouns (Ex.: Mary's dress, the girls' club, one's duty) 3
- noun apostrophe to form some plurals, as of figures and letters (Ex.: five 6's, dot the i's) 3
- noun apostrophe punctuation mark: ' 1
- noun apostrophe A punctuation mark (‘) used to indicate either possession (e.g., Harry’s book ; boys‘ coats ) or the omission of letters or numbers (e.g., can’t ; he‘s ; class of’ 99 ). 1
- noun Definition of apostrophe in Technology (character) "'" 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. 1
- noun apostrophe a digression in the form of an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea, as “O Death, where is thy sting?”. 1
- noun apostrophe (orthography) The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts. 0
- noun apostrophe (rhetoric) A sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something, especially absent. 0