apostrophe

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English - Turkish
kesme işareti

Eksik bir kesme işareti var. It's veits farklıdır. -- Biliyorum. Bir yazım hatasıydı. - There's an apostrophe missing. It's and its are different. -- I know. It was a typing error.

TDK kurum isimlerinde kesme işareti kullanımını kaldırma kararı aldı. - TDK has decided to abolish the use of apostrophe in names of institutions.

Kesme İmi
apostrof
kesme

Eksik bir kesme işareti var. It's veits farklıdır. -- Biliyorum. Bir yazım hatasıydı. - There's an apostrophe missing. It's and its are different. -- I know. It was a typing error.

TDK kurum isimlerinde kesme işareti kullanımını kaldırma kararı aldı. - TDK has decided to abolish the use of apostrophe in names of institutions.

nutuk esnasında appeal orada bulunmayan belirli bir şahsa hitaben söylenen sözler
gönderme/kesme işareti
kesme imi,tepeden virgül
{i} başkası için söylenen söz
kesme işareti gram
English - English
The text character ’ (used to mark the possessive or to show the omission of letters or numbers)
A sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something, especially absent
figure of speech in which an inanimate object, abstract idea, or deceased individual is addressed as though it were alive (e g "rain, rain, go away") [top]
The punctuation mark ( ' ) that indicates a) possession, or b) that a letter is missing in a contraction: Don't hit Paul's ball over the fence
Words that are spoken to a person who is absent or imaginary, or to an object or abstract idea The poem God's World by Edna St Vincent Millay begins with an apostrophe: “O World, I cannot hold thee close enough!/Thy winds, thy wide grey skies!/Thy mists that roll and rise!”
a punctuation mark indicating either a possessive form (the pupil's work) or a contraction, in which letters are missed out (You(ha)'ve got one )
Speech directed to someone off stage or, in the case of poetry, directed at someone not present
a punctuation mark generally used in order 1) to show the omission of one or more letters in a contraction, and 2) to show ownership or possession
(a-poss-troe-fee) An apostrophe is a symbol that usually indicates either (1) missing letters in a word as in can't, hasn't, isn't, and so on, or (2) the possessive case as in monarch's crown, monarchs' palaces and so on
A punctuation mark ( ' ) used to show possession Also used in contractions, which should be avoided in formal prose possession example: "That was Jack's favorite coffee mug " contraction example: "You shouldn't have dropped it " See for more information: Guide to Grammar and Style Apostrophe
turning away from the divine ground (Stoics)
A figure of speech in which an address is made to an absent person or a personified thing rhetorically, as in William Cowper's "Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk," O solitude! Where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? An apostrophe is also a punctuation mark used to indicate the omission of letter(s) in an elision Sidelight: When the poet addresses a muse or a god for inspiration, it is called an invocation (Compare Prosopopeia)
When combining two words into one (a contraction), replace the part of the word you left out with an apostrophe
Not to be confused with the punctuation mark, apostrophe is the act of addressing some abstraction or personification that is not physically present: For instance, John Donne commands, "Oh, Death, be not proud " King Lear proclaims, "Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend, / More hideous when thou show'st thee in a child / Than the sea-monster " Death, of course, is a phenomenon rather than a proud person, and ingratitude is an abstraction that hardly cares about Lear's opinion, but the act of addressing the abstract has its own rhetorical power An apostrophe is an example of a rhetorical trope
the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word
an address to a dead or absent person or personification as if he or she were present
address to an absent or imaginary person
An address, either to someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker or to something nonhuman that cannot comprehend Apostrophe often provides a speaker the opportunity to think aloud
addressing an alternate audience midstream, whether that audience be a person, group, or abstraction, present or absent
A punctuation mark used to shorten two words together Example: Do not; don't Can not; can't I think it's going to snow Or to show the owning of something Example: This is the dog's basket
- an address to someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker or to something nonhuman that cannot comprehend
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction, such as liberty or love The effect may add familiarity or emotional intensity William Wordswoth addresses John Milton as he writes, "Milton thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee "
A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of "Paradise Lost
The mark ['] used to denote that a word is contracted (as in ne'er for never, can't for can not), and as a sign of the possessive, singular and plural; as, a boy's hat, boys' hats
the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word address to an absent or imaginary person
An apostrophe is the mark ' when it is written to indicate that one or more letters have been left out of a word, as in `isn't' and `we'll'. It is also added to nouns to form possessives, as in `Mike's car'. a) the sign (') that is used in writing to show that numbers or letters have been left out, as in 'don't' (=do not) and '86 (=1986) b) the same sign used before 's' to show that something belongs to someone or something, or is connected with them, as in 'John's book', or 'Charles' mother', or 'Henry's first year as a teacher' c) the same sign used before 's' to show the plural of letters and numbers as in 'Your r's look like v's.' (apostrophus, from , from apostrephein , from apo- ( APOCALYPSE) + strephein )
In the latter use it originally marked the omission of the letter e
" The contraction of a word by the omission of a letter or letters, which omission is marked by the character ['] placed where the letter or letters would have been; as, call'd for called
The text character ('), which is used to mark the possessive ('s) or to show the omission of letters or numbers (tho', they'll, '65)
{i} punctuation mark used to indicate omission of letters or possession; digression in a discourse to someone not present
The contraction of a word by the omission of a letter or letters, which omission is marked by the character ['] placed where the letter or letters would have been; as, call'd for called
Apostrophe Deficit Disorder
{i} condition in which one is unable to use an apostrophe, ADD
apologetic apostrophe
An apostrophe added to a Scots word in order to give the appearance that it is a contraction of an English word
greengrocer's apostrophe
The incorrect use of an apostrophe to form the plural of a word through ignorance of the use of the apostrophe

When applied in English it produces greengrocer's apostrophes.

printer's apostrophe
An apostrophe (punctuation mark) indicating elision
apostrophes
a raised comma used to denote either possession or contraction
apostrophes
plural of apostrophe
apostrophes
Single apostrophes used to abbreviate years require a single open-quote mark and not the single close-quote mark
apostrophe

    Hyphenation

    a·pos·tro·phe

    Turkish pronunciation

    ıpästrıfi

    Pronunciation

    /əˈpästrəfē/ /əˈpɑːstrəfiː/

    Etymology

    [ &-'päs-tr&-(")fE ] (noun.) 1533. From French apostrophe, or Latin apostrophus, from Ancient Greek ἀπόστροφος (apostrophos, “accent of elision”), a noun use of an adjective from ἀποστρέφω (apostrephō, “I turn away”).
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