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Meanings of ellipsis in English
Series of dots that indicate omission.
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Usage of ellipsis in English
1
The three-dot-ellipsis man takes a couple of steps and almost tumbles over.
2
Dense crops abutting each other, bounded by an iron ellipsis of tracks.
3
As the poets say, death is not a period, it's an ellipsis.
4
Informed readers would understand that behind the extended ellipsis was revolution.
5
And when it comes to scenes of great emotion, he favours the ellipsis.
6
Then a mild virus became an ellipsis, a long drawn-out syllable of thing.
7
The period is used in groups, separated by spaces, to indicate an ellipsis.
8
It's an ellipsis that gnawed at me because the same question applies to Trump.
9
I think ours, the other night, excelled all starters in the art of ellipsis.
10
He added an ellipsis at the end but waited seven minutes to post another tweet.
11
Now in elliptical orbits attracting bodies always occupy one of the foci of the ellipsis.
12
They had developed a language of ellipsis and evasion.
13
She glanced swiftly at Donaldson, as though to see if he had read the ellipsis.
14
I refer of course to lenition and ellipsis.
15
All this was exactly what the three-dot-ellipsis man said, you can't forget a thing like that.
16
A special case arises when an ellipsis follows a sentence instead of being in the middle.
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Ellipsis through the time