noun
A small star; also (by extension), something resembling or shaped like a star.
Add one Ray unto the common Luſtre; add not only to the Number but the Note of thy Generation; and prove not a Cloud but an Aſteriſk in thy Region.
A small star; also (by extension), something resembling or shaped like a star.
He is in the right to put the Aſteriſks, not the VVords into the text; becauſe They do indeed give us [notice, that there is in Them] as much additional meaning, as there vvould be in thoſe vvords vvhich they ſo properly repreſent.
I having been looking at your pamphlet, and shewing it, but I mention no names. I don't see the use of names, for my part, unless it be to put in asterisks. It is—yes—very, indeed.
A small star; also (by extension), something resembling or shaped like a star.
Using a crafting knife, cut a small asterisk shape in the center of each black circle. Gently pierce each asterisk with a wooden skewer to make a hole. Once done, simply insert your stove knobs, and you're almost ready!
A small star; also (by extension), something resembling or shaped like a star.
I don't want to be an asterisk in my kids' lives. I don't want to be just some guy who sporadically appears and then disappears again.
The opposing view sees it as an abject failure and historically irrelevant. This verdict was neatly summed up by the New York Times financial columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin when he predicted, a year on from the event: "It will be an asterisk in the history books, if it gets a mention at all."
A small star; also (by extension), something resembling or shaped like a star.
They came into the tournament highly ranked, but with a little bit of an asterisk as their last two wins had been unconvincing.
verb
To mark or replace (text, etc.) with an asterisk symbol (*; noun noun sense 1.1); to star.
Bank of New Zealand Estates Company Share Account now stands, as we have already seen, at £1,089,722 17s. 7d., a reduction of £760,177 2s. 5d. having been effected by the writing off of share capital. But from the point of view of its intrinsic value, the item has still to be dealt with, being asterisked in the balance sheet as follows: […]
She was determined to make the most of the trip, extracting some cultural capital from the emotional waste, and so read carefully through the Venice guidebooks she had brought, underlining the must-dos and asterisking the should-dos.