| 释义 |
Definition of caret in English: caretnoun ˈkarətˈkɛrət A mark (‸, ⁁) placed below the line to indicate a proposed insertion in a text. Example sentencesExamples - Not only do I underscore; I use brackets, carets, and braces; I annotate all four margins and I copiously turn down the edges (both top and bottom) of certain especially memorable pages.
- In fact, there is a linguistic analog: the use of carets, superscripts, and footnotes - all vertical operations - to embed new information in a finished text.
- But what's even better is Pikachu's tough side, which his animators represent simply by transforming the pocket monster's normally circular mouth into a caret (the ^ symbol) to illustrate his competitiveness.
- A dart (>) marks the last nucleotide for each gene and indicates the direction of transcription; nucleotides participating in termination codons of protein-coding genes are underscored with carets.
- If used inside brackets, the caret is interpreted as the negation operator.
- A caret mark appears between the words ‘paid’ and ‘to’ and the words ‘in cash’ are inserted.
- Some of it gets through though - this is because subject titles are ‘cleverly’ crafted so that the spam filter doesn't recognise them (putting a full stop or caret in a word seems to work occasionally)
Origin Late 17th century: from Latin, 'is lacking'. Definition of caret in US English: caretnounˈkerətˈkɛrət A mark (‸, ⁁) placed below the line to indicate a proposed insertion in a printed or written text. Example sentencesExamples - Not only do I underscore; I use brackets, carets, and braces; I annotate all four margins and I copiously turn down the edges (both top and bottom) of certain especially memorable pages.
- In fact, there is a linguistic analog: the use of carets, superscripts, and footnotes - all vertical operations - to embed new information in a finished text.
- A dart (>) marks the last nucleotide for each gene and indicates the direction of transcription; nucleotides participating in termination codons of protein-coding genes are underscored with carets.
- A caret mark appears between the words ‘paid’ and ‘to’ and the words ‘in cash’ are inserted.
- But what's even better is Pikachu's tough side, which his animators represent simply by transforming the pocket monster's normally circular mouth into a caret (the ^ symbol) to illustrate his competitiveness.
- If used inside brackets, the caret is interpreted as the negation operator.
- Some of it gets through though - this is because subject titles are ‘cleverly’ crafted so that the spam filter doesn't recognise them (putting a full stop or caret in a word seems to work occasionally)
Origin Late 17th century: from Latin, ‘is lacking’. |