hyphen

The symbol "‐", typically used to join two or more words to form a compound term, or to indicate that a word has been split at the end of a line.

As the proud owner of my very own hyphen in a lovingly crafted surname, I have an especial soft spot for this most confusing of punctuation marks.

Something which links two things of greater significance than itself.

Cunliffe and Karunanayake (2013) developed Fine's notion to introduce potential hyphen spaces that are deeply implicated and reciprocally influential in relationships between researchers and the researched.

Something which links two things of greater significance than itself.

The hyphens were added, joining the structures into one building, which now measures just over two hundred feet long.

Construction details for the hyphens, or "connecting wings" as they were called by the contractors, were included in the contractors' specifications, as follows:

Someone who belongs to a marginalized subgroup, and can therefore described by a hyphenated term, such as "German-American", "female-academic", etc.

Tab has been kept on quite a number of members who rapturously applauded when that part of the message in which the hyphens were attacked was read by the President.

Sign language interpreters fascinate me because their cultural space, "working the hyphens" as Michelle Fine (1994) would call it, and performing in the kind of hybrid third space that Homi Bhabha (1994) has written about resonates often with my own "hard-of-hearing" doubly hyphenated existence in both deaf and hearing worlds.

To separate or punctuate with a hyphen; to hyphenate.

Used to emphasize the coordinating function usually indicated by the punctuation "-".

You are sitting at the wrong table, if I may be so bold, among the misguided who believe in the mass murder of mentalities, otherwise known as the liberal arts hyphen vocational training hyphen education.

Ax was now a Hollywood hyphenated man. An actor hyphen director hyphen writer.