Ellipsis

/ɪˈlɪp.sɪs/

Synonyms for "ellipsis" (50 found)

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More general

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deletionlinguistic devicelinguistic phenomenonmathematical notationomissionpunctuation markrhetorical devicesymboltextual devicetypographic symbol

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gappinghorizontal ellipsislist ellipsisomitted clauseomitted phraseomitted wordsequence ellipsissluicingstrippingvertical ellipsis

Collocations

6 entries
ellipses in textellipsis markhorizontal ellipsislinguistic ellipsisthree dot ellipsisvertical ellipsis

Inflections

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Derivations

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Sample sentences

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Tatoeba + Wiktionary

In my language, the "," is called comma, the ";" is called semicolon, ":" is called colon, "..." are called ellipsis, and this sentence ends with a period.

Source: tatoeba (1336028)

The ellipsis are the tiptoe marks of the words gone.

Source: tatoeba (10106833)

When skipping words in a quote, put an ellipsis in square brackets, like so: "Tom went [...] to the train station".

Source: tatoeba (10333139)

In my language, the "," is called a comma, the ";" is called a semicolon, ":" is called a colon, "..." is called an ellipsis and this sentence ends in a full stop.

Source: tatoeba (13020735)

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