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Definition of asterisk in English: asterisknoun ˈastərɪskˈæstəˌrɪsk A symbol (*) used in text as a pointer to an annotation or footnote. Example sentencesExamples - The article proceeded to spell out the word in block capitals, replacing asterisks and leaving nothing to the imagination.
- Honestly, have you ever seen the word ‘free’ in a financial ad without an asterisk (*) or obelus next to it?
- Many significant differences of a small to moderate magnitude were found, as indicated by the asterisks.
- The asterisk indicates a cross-reactive species.
- The 80 species denoted by a double asterisk are native species included on the State list of rare, threatened or endangered plants of Maryland.
- Many search engines employ wild cards - special symbols, usually an asterisk (*), that you add to a term to indicate different possibilities.
- Unless you check the (barely visible) asterisk at the bottom of the nutrition facts panel, you'd never know that those numbers leave out the pound of ground beef that you're supposed to add.
- Programming languages often consist of a seemingly random usage of parentheses, brackets, asterisks, slashes, colons and semi-colons.
- I reveal most of the plot, so if you want to avoid the spoilers, skip any paragraph preceded by an asterisk (*).
- The asterisk led to small print at the bottom of the page which read: ‘Offer subject to availability’.
- Everything should have asterisks and footnotes.
- Scholarly notes are usually signalled by superscript numbers at appropriate points in a text, but such symbols as asterisks and obelisks may be used instead for footnotes.
- An individual, whose name is marked with a double asterisk, gave a witness statement which was put in evidence under the Civil Evidence Act.
- As in previous Intelligence and Security Committee reports, significant sections considered to be operationally sensitive were blanked out with asterisks following pre-publication vetting by the agencies.
- Anyway, more importantly, how did they manage to brainwash everyone into always putting that asterisk at the end?
- Its text is interrupted in several dozen places with sets of asterisks that substitute for classified information that has been excised.
- It was the sort of ‘free’ that used to have to have a little asterisk next to it attached to some nasty fine print.
- My comments follow your paragraphs and my asterisks.
- The asterisk footnote stated that all dates are for planning purposes and subject to change, so we may not see this running in actual business systems for quite some time.
- Well, it's about time we removed that damn asterisk.
- And what did that asterisk highlight, what did it show?
verbˈastərɪskˈæstəˌrɪsk [with object]Mark (a word or piece of text) with an asterisk. 加星号于（印刷或书写的文字） he had asterisked the things about the case that still bothered him Example sentencesExamples - It seems only fair that the new records be somehow asterisked.
- I love the asterisked comment at the end of the New Urbanism part.
- He never said those words, including the asterisked one.
- Now the clause that really throws things into a cocked hat in this case is the one I have asterisked.
- Newspapers still asterisk a word that's common currency in newsrooms up and down the country, but in literature the Chatterley classes started taking it as read.
- The asterisked figures are for periods a little longer than the others, as they include time added on at the ends of the two halves to make up for stoppages.
- Can I show your Lordships the paragraphs that we have asterisked?
- The 42 functionally important positions are asterisked.
- It involves a naughty word that every one of you knows and if I used it without asterisking, no one in the world would be harmed.
- Note to the faint of heart: contains lots of asterisked profanity.
- All asterisked celebrities were pointed out to me by Seth, who is much better at recognizing famous people than I am, bless him.
UsageAsterisk is pronounced with an -isk sound at the end, to match the spelling, and not as though it were spelled -ix. Asterix is a character in a cartoon strip OriginLate Middle English: via late Latin from Greek asteriskos 'small star', diminutive of astēr. The Greeks had two words for ‘star’, astēr and astron. They go back to an ancient root that is also the source of the Latin word stella, which gave us star itself and also stellar (mid 17th century). An asterisk is a little star, the meaning of its source, Greek asteriskos. Asteriskos is from astēr, which is also the root of asteroeidēs, ‘star-like’. This entered English in the early 19th century as asteroid (early 19th century), a term coined by the astronomer William Herschel. Astēr also gave us our name for the plant aster (early 18th century), which has petals rather like an asterisk. Words beginning with astro- come from astron. In the Middle Ages astronomy (Middle English) covered not only astronomy but astrology too. The Greek word it descends from meant ‘star-arranging’. Rather poetically, an astronaut [1920s] is literally a ‘star sailor’. The word comes from Greek astron ‘star’ and nautēs ‘sailor’. It was modelled on aeronaut (late 18th century), a word for a traveller in a hot-air balloon or airship. Cosmonaut [1950s], the Russian equivalent of astronaut, literally means ‘sailor in the cosmos’. See also disaster
Definition of asterisk in US English: asterisknounˈastəˌriskˈæstəˌrɪsk A symbol (*) used to mark printed or written text, typically as a reference to an annotation or to stand for omitted matter. （印刷或书写中用以表示注释或省略的）星号（即*） Example sentencesExamples - Everything should have asterisks and footnotes.
- The article proceeded to spell out the word in block capitals, replacing asterisks and leaving nothing to the imagination.
- Many search engines employ wild cards - special symbols, usually an asterisk (*), that you add to a term to indicate different possibilities.
- The asterisk footnote stated that all dates are for planning purposes and subject to change, so we may not see this running in actual business systems for quite some time.
- An individual, whose name is marked with a double asterisk, gave a witness statement which was put in evidence under the Civil Evidence Act.
- Many significant differences of a small to moderate magnitude were found, as indicated by the asterisks.
- The 80 species denoted by a double asterisk are native species included on the State list of rare, threatened or endangered plants of Maryland.
- Well, it's about time we removed that damn asterisk.
- As in previous Intelligence and Security Committee reports, significant sections considered to be operationally sensitive were blanked out with asterisks following pre-publication vetting by the agencies.
- The asterisk indicates a cross-reactive species.
- The asterisk led to small print at the bottom of the page which read: ‘Offer subject to availability’.
- And what did that asterisk highlight, what did it show?
- I reveal most of the plot, so if you want to avoid the spoilers, skip any paragraph preceded by an asterisk (*).
- It was the sort of ‘free’ that used to have to have a little asterisk next to it attached to some nasty fine print.
- Its text is interrupted in several dozen places with sets of asterisks that substitute for classified information that has been excised.
- Honestly, have you ever seen the word ‘free’ in a financial ad without an asterisk (*) or obelus next to it?
- Anyway, more importantly, how did they manage to brainwash everyone into always putting that asterisk at the end?
- Scholarly notes are usually signalled by superscript numbers at appropriate points in a text, but such symbols as asterisks and obelisks may be used instead for footnotes.
- Programming languages often consist of a seemingly random usage of parentheses, brackets, asterisks, slashes, colons and semi-colons.
- Unless you check the (barely visible) asterisk at the bottom of the nutrition facts panel, you'd never know that those numbers leave out the pound of ground beef that you're supposed to add.
- My comments follow your paragraphs and my asterisks.
verbˈastəˌriskˈæstəˌrɪsk [with object]Mark (a word or piece of text) with an asterisk. 加星号于（印刷或书写的文字） he had asterisked the things about the case that still bothered him Example sentencesExamples - I love the asterisked comment at the end of the New Urbanism part.
- The asterisked figures are for periods a little longer than the others, as they include time added on at the ends of the two halves to make up for stoppages.
- Note to the faint of heart: contains lots of asterisked profanity.
- The 42 functionally important positions are asterisked.
- Now the clause that really throws things into a cocked hat in this case is the one I have asterisked.
- It seems only fair that the new records be somehow asterisked.
- All asterisked celebrities were pointed out to me by Seth, who is much better at recognizing famous people than I am, bless him.
- He never said those words, including the asterisked one.
- It involves a naughty word that every one of you knows and if I used it without asterisking, no one in the world would be harmed.
- Newspapers still asterisk a word that's common currency in newsrooms up and down the country, but in literature the Chatterley classes started taking it as read.
- Can I show your Lordships the paragraphs that we have asterisked?
UsageEven though asterisk does not look like a tricky word to pronounce, it can be problematic. In both its singular and plural forms, it is often mispronounced as if it ends with -rix. Pronounced correctly, it ends with a -risk sound when singular and -risks when plural OriginLate Middle English: via late Latin from Greek asteriskos ‘small star’, diminutive of astēr. |