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Dash

The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the en dash –, generally longer than the hyphen but shorter than the minus sign; the em dash —, longer than either the en dash or the minus sign; and the…

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Types of dash

Figure dash

Usage

Em dash

En dash versus em dash

Swung dash

In other languages

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Dash

Nodes156
Edges155
Triples128
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.012821
Components1

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Dash

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related to En dash versus em dash · 28
Dash → American Psychological Association, An, As, British, Cambridge University Press, Canadian, Dashes, For, Fowler's Modern English Usage, However, In, New Hart's Rules, Oxford University Press, Penguin Group, Robert Bringhurst, Routledge, Style, The, The Chicago Manual, The Elements
related to history · 19
Dash → Andria, Anne Toner, Ben Jonson's, Ellipsis, English, English Literature, Hotspur, In, Kyffin's, Maurice Kyffin, Omission, Part, Shakespeare's Henry IV, Signs, Terence's Andria, The, They, Toner, William Shakespeare's
related to Types of dash · 15
Dash → An, Canada, Edwards, English, For, Glitter, In, Indian War, Mahatma GandhiA, Pennsylvania, Seven, The, The French, US, Usage
related to Usage in AI-generated text · 9
Dash → AI-generated, An OpenAI, ChatGPT, However, In April, New York Times Magazine, Nitsuh Abebe, Rolling Stone, The
related to Figure dash · 7
Dash → EN DASH, FIGURE DASH, HYPHEN-MINUS, In, It, MINUS SIGN, The
related to In other languages · 7
Dash → Corpus, English, In, In Russian, Polish, Russian, There
related to Em dash · 6
Dash → By, HTML, One, So, The, Unicode
related to Horizontal bar · 5
Dash → HORIZONTAL BAR, TeX, The, There, This
related to Usage · 4
Dash → Common, Em, It, The
see also · 4
Dash → Compound, Conventions, Signature, Whitespace

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em en used dashes hyphen style use example hyphens mark may two english set also one text three character horizontal

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Dashis apunctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line0.90text
Dashis ahallmark of AI-generated writing0.90text
Dashis ahouse style for certain major publishers0.90text
those between datesinstance ofThis may include ranges0.80text
timesinstance ofThis may include ranges0.80text
or numbersinstance ofThis may include ranges0.80text
these to represent the parallel relationshipinstance ofothers consider an en dash appropriate in instances0.80text
as in the McCaininstance ofothers consider an en dash appropriate in instances0.80text
James Joyceinstance ofIt replaces other quotation marks and was preferred by authors0.80text
Dashrelated to Em dashThe0.60section
Dashrelated to Em dashOne0.60section
Dashrelated to Em dashSo0.60section

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