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Meanings of en-dash in English
Russian
тире Portuguese
meia-risca Synonyms
Examples for "nut"
Examples for "nut"
1
Put a nut in the place of the stone in the cherries.
2
Grafting is widely used in plants, especially in fruit and nut crops.
3
Sorry-justneed to test it. I gave the nut a firm bounce.
4
Many cocoa-nut trees were seen in the lower parts of the island.
5
A great nut placement will allow dramatic shifts in direction of pull.
1
"You won't believe it, but it's so-dashme 'n' dash drunkards one and all."
Usage of en-dash in English
1
However, there is no ASCII character for an en-dash, and we use the hyphen in these cases.
2
In typography, there are four standard types of dashes: the hyphen, the en-dash, the em-dash, and the three-em-dash.
3
For example, if you were printing "1830-1874", or "9:00-5:30", you would use an en-dash instead of a hyphen.
4
In typography, the en-dash is a little longer than the hyphen, and is typically used for duration, where you could substitute the word "to".
5
(HTML and some character sets do provide separate entities for en-dash and em-dash.)
Frequent collocations
En-dash through the time