hyphenation

[ US /ˌhaɪfəˈneɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. division of a word especially at the end of a line on a page
  2. connecting syllables and words by hyphens
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How To Use hyphenation In A Sentence

  • It's confusing enough to grow up in a place like America, a country without definitive culture, except for ranch dressing and reality TV, but it's even worse to grow up half one thing, half another, christened a hyphenation of names without connection to either owner, raised by “parents” who redefine suburban bickering. What The Hell Nationality Are You?
  • Many common usage words will be effected whereas Brazilians must only become accustomed to a few missing accents, for example in idéia and vôo (which are now spelled ideia and voo), and also to new hyphenation rules. Web Translations » Blog Archive » Ordem e Progresso: Brazilian Portuguese spelling reform
  • Jackson's family originally wanted the name changed entirely, while Hartsfield's family opposed the hyphenation.
  • Hyphenation by decomposition of compound words wordaxeis a Python library (formerly known as deco-cow) which provides Python programs with the ability to automatically hyphenate words using an algorithm which is based on decomposition of compound words into base words, and is named DCWHyphenator in the code. Softpedia - Windows - All
  • There is a large constituency of Americans who reject the hyphenation entirely. The Volokh Conspiracy » Discourteous to Wear American Flag Images on Cinco de Mayo?
  • End-of-line word-division in the copy-text that could affect hyphenation in this edition. Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies
  • No hyphens at line divisions in this edition are authorial, except for seventy-three instances in which an authorial hyphen happens to occur ambiguously at a line division in this edition; those are identified, for convenience, in the appended ‘End-of Line Word-Division’, which also gives a list of the sixty-six instances of end-of-line word-division in the copy-text that could possibly affect hyphenation. Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies
  • I like how this started out as a thoughtful deliberation of hyphenation usage, then degraded into Three Stooges-like antics complete with head konk, and then an Apatow-yell (similar to a rebel yell but funnier and far more intelligent). Theater Hopper - July 30: I Probably Shouldn't Be Critiquing Grammar « FirstShowing.net
  • It is in that state of hyphenation that we live our daily lives, comfortable in our dual skins.
  • But I posit that the hyphenation of his name made him unique enough to be easily discoverable even before he had hit songs. The Dream of Being Discoverable - Anil Dash
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