Against Mary Jane's wishes, I texted Gavin just to reassure him that I was not going out with his girlfriend. I put a smiley face at the end of the message.
A combination of symbols designed to indicate the true intent or emotional state of the author The classic smiley is the sideways happy face : - Smileys are fine in moderation, but overusing them not only indicates that your writing isn't as clear as it could be, but it also brands you as a newbie
"Art" form composed of punctuation Sometimes used in E-mail or usenet news postings to reduce ambiguity or to entertain Examples include the plain smiley, ": -)", the winking smiley, ";-)", etc See also Emoticon
The use of punctuation marks and other symbols or characters to portray moods when typing, especially in email messages and IRC Here's an example of a simple smiley: : ) If you don't see it, tilt your head to the left and look at it The colon makes the eyes and the parenthesis makes the smiley mouth The smile means happiness (like if someone says something funny) or it often denotes sarcasm Other combinations of characters can express many other emotions You may also hear them referred to as emoticons
{i} circle containing two dots for eyes and an upturned curve representing a smiling mouth (often appears as a yellow circle); face made of ASCII characters which expresses emotion (Computers)
Manipulating the limited potential of keyboard characters to show goodwill, irony, or other emotions with a "smiley face " Known as "emoticons," there are a number of these text-based effects used on the Net For example, : -)means smiley and : -( displays anger
A set of characters that looks like a face if you turn it sideways Used in E-mail messages which only allow text For example Frown : -( Smile : -) Wink ;-)
A sequence of characters, usually found in an e-mail message, that indicates humorous intent The three-character sequence : - is especially popular because it resembles a smiling face turned sideways
A name given to a small set of characters that are intended to represent a form of non-verbal communication Thus a happy face is represented as : - [week 2]
Evoking memories of that glory decade of American culture, the 1970s, this text version of a smile or "Happy Face" allows people to express positive emotions in their e-mail or newsgroup postings
A symbol in e-mail and newsgroup messages used to convey emotion, or simply amusement Create smileys by typing various keyboard characters For example, : - means happiness See also, Emoticon
Since you can't use voice inflection when you communicate with people online, people use smileys as a way to add emotion to their words : - If you look at it sideways you can see the smile Also called emoticons
Character combinations such as : -) to denote whether a message is being made in jest with various modifications thereof ;-) to wink, etc Also called emoticons, since not all are smiling %-(
A face on it's side, smiling It lets the reader know that you mean your comments to be humorous Remind people that you are being funny--they may take your words seriously if you don't
The use of punctuation marks and other symbols or characters to protray moods when typing, especially in email messages and IRC Here's an example of a simple smiley : ) If you don't see it, tilt your head to the left and look at it Teh colon makes the eyes and the parenthesis makes the smiley mouth The smiles means happiness (like if someone says something funny) or it often denotes sarcasm Other combinations of characters can express many other emotions you may also hear them referred to as "emoticons "
The use of punctuation marks and other symbols or characters to portray moods when typing, especially in e-mail messages and IRC Here's an example of a simple smiley: :) If you don't see it, tilt your head to the left and look at it The colon makes the eyes and the parenthesis makes the smiley mouth The smile means happiness (like if someone says something funny) or it often denotes sarcasm Other combinations of characters can express many other emotions You may also hear them referred to as emoticons
1. A smiley person smiles a lot or is smiling. is a smiley showing happiness. = emoticon. a sign that looks like a face when you look at it sideways, for example : -, used in email messages to show that you are happy or pleased about something