Synonym: dash, hyphenate. Similar words: hyphenated, sisyphean, phenol, stephen, phenotype, phenomena, phenomenal, phenomenally. Meaning: ['haɪfn] 
n. a punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text. v. divide or connect with a hyphen.
n. a punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text. v. divide or connect with a hyphen. 
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1. Is there a hyphen in post-mortem?
2. There should be a hyphen in 'short-sighted'.
3. The dash is longer than the hyphen.
4. A hyphen is an acceptable alternative to a comma.
5. Councillors have suggested using Tees-side using a hyphen to emphasise the name of the river rather than the name of a local authority.
6. Use the soft hyphen in words which would not be hyphenated if they fell in the middle of a line.
7. Those two words need to be connected a hyphen.
8. Use a hyphen inside a character set to specify a range.
9. Used to take the place of hyphen in many occasions when finer typography is required.
10. We weren't sure whether there was a hyphen in the word co - ordination.
11. Discretionary hyphen: Hyphen inserted by keyboard and which overrides the hyphenation program in use.
12. Besides we were never very sure whether there was a hyphen in the word co-ordination.
13. Answer: a. Why: When creating an unusual adjective from other types of words(http://Sentencedict.com), use a hyphen.
14. The 2 parameters should be separated by a comma or a hyphen.
15. Until late 1995, she had gone by an Anglicized hyphen name and had been a lifelong Republican.
16. As you type, WordPerfect will automatically insert a soft hyphen where appropriate, without stopping for you to position the cursor.
17. Note that continuation lines may be indicated by entering a hyphen sign after any of the closing square brackets.
18. Because most tools take standard input as an argument using a hyphen (-), even the argument for using cat to intersperse multiple files with stdin is often not valid.
19. To divide or connect ( syllables, word elements , or names ) a hyphen.
20. Li - an: Is that where you put a hyphen between your husband's surname and yours?
21. Shall we put a comma, a question mark, a semi - colon or a hyphen here?
22. This is actually three bits of information , joined together by a double hyphen.
23. Stump line: The last line of a page ending with a hyphen . Consider undesirable.
24. To divide or connect ( syllables, word elements, or names ) with a hyphen.
25. The following expressions match all lowercase letters and the hyphen.
26. As an implementor of an XML processor, we might define a special date datatype that conforms to the format of day-month-year, but uses various separators, not just a hyphen (-).
27. When you drew that Fish-And-Chips sign, you should have put a hyphen between Fish and And and And and Chips"."
28. En dash (En rule): A rule the length of which equals an en. Used to take the place of hyphen in many occasions when finer typography is. required.
29. Create a range in which the starting character value is lower than the hyphen character and the ending character value is equal to or greater than the hyphen.
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