单词	asterisk
释义	asteriskas‧te‧risk /ˈæstərɪsk/ noun [countable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINasterisk Origin: 1300-1400 Late Latin asteriscus, from Greek, ‘little star’, from aster; ➔ ASTEROID Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS But for the time being, at least, stick an asterisk next to this season. He located what appeared to be an asterisk, which produced only an empty silence that he was paying for. I wrote up my notes deep into the night, furrowing pages with black underlinings and asterisks. If a rest follows the solo passage the asterisk is unnecessary. So reaching profitability, even if it came with an asterisk, was a major milestone. The asterisk, to my mind, was emblematic of the neutering of Iron Mike. Titles with graphics are marked with one asterisk, titles with sound with two. Thesaurus THESAURUSother marks used in writing► angle brackets British English a pair of signs <> used for enclosing information ► slash a line / that is used to separate words, numbers, or letters ► backslash a line that is used to separate words, numbers, or letters ► asterisk the sign * that is used especially to mark something interesting or important ► at sign the sign @ that is used especially in email addresses ► ampersand the sign & that means ‘and’ WORD SETS► Letters & punctuation A, nounABC, nounalpha, nounalphabet, nounalphabetical, adjectiveampersand, nounapostrophe, nounasterisk, nounB, nounbeta, nounblock capitals, nounblock letters, nounbrace, nounbracket, nounbracket, verbC, nouncapital, nouncapital, adjectivecapitalize, verbcaps, cedilla, nouncircumflex, nounclause, nouncolon, nouncomma, nounconsonant, nounCyrillic, adjectiveD, noundash, noundelta, noundiacritic, nounditto, nounE, nounexclamation mark, nounF, nounG, noungamma, nounGothic, adjectivegrave, adjectiveH, nounhyphen, nounI, nounIPA, nounJ, nounK, nounL, nounletter, nounlower case, nounM, nounN, nounNHS, the, O, nounoblique, nounomega, nounP, nounparenthesis, nounperiod, nounpunctuate, verbpunctuation, nounpunctuation mark, nounQ, nounquestion mark, nounquestion tag, nounquotation mark, nounR, nounrune, nounS, nounschwa, nounscript, nounsemicolon, nounslash, nounsmall, adjectivespeech marks, nounsquare bracket, nounstar, nounstenography, nounstress mark, nounT, nountilde, nounU, nounumlaut, nounupper case, nounV, nounvowel, nounW, nounX, nounY, nounZ, nounzed, noun Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB► mark · Titles with graphics are marked with one asterisk, titles with sound with two.· About half of those places are marked by asterisks.· The essences marked with an asterisk are the oils I tend to use more often.· There's one of those towns marked with an asterisk that you omitted to mention. a mark like a star (*), used especially to show something interesting or important—asterisk verb [transitive]
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