HYPHENATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hyphenate mean? 

• HYPHENATE (verb)
  The verb HYPHENATE has 1 sense:

1. divide or connect with a hyphen

  Familiarity information: HYPHENATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYPHENATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they hyphenate    ... he / she / it hyphenates   
Past simple: hyphenated   
Past participle: hyphenated   
-ing form: hyphenating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Divide or connect with a hyphen

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

hyphen; hyphenate

Context example:

hyphenate these words and names

Hypernyms (to "hyphenate" is one way to...):

spell; write (write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

hyphen (a punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text)

hyphenation (connecting syllables and words by hyphens)

hyphenation (division of a word especially at the end of a line on a page)

 Context examples 

Strawn- Hamilton's his name—hyphenated, you know—comes of old Southern stock.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

LC/MS is a hyphenated technique, combining the separation power of liquid chromatography (LC), an analytical chromatographic technique for separating ions or molecules dissolved in a solvent, with the detection power of mass spectrometry(MS), a technique to separate gas phase ions according their m/z (mass to charge ratio) value.

(Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry, NCI Thesaurus)