punctuate
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Medieval Latin punctuare (“to mark with points”), from Latin punctus, perfect passive participle of pungō (“I prick, punch”); see point, and compare punch and punctate.
Pronunciation
edit- (verb)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpʌŋktjuːeɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): [ˈpʌŋkʃuːeɪt]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpʌŋktjuːeɪt/
Verb
editpunctuate (third-person singular simple present punctuates, present participle punctuating, simple past and past participle punctuated)
- (transitive) To add punctuation to.
- That occurrence of "its" needs to be punctuated as "it's".
- (transitive) To add or to interrupt at regular intervals.
- My father punctuated his tirade with thumps on the desk.
- 2020 October 15, Frank Pasquale, “‘Machines set loose to slaughter’: the dangerous rise of military AI”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Most soldiers would testify that the everyday experience of war is long stretches of boredom punctuated by sudden, terrifying spells of disorder.
- (transitive) To emphasize; to stress.
Related terms
editTranslations
editadd punctuation to
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add or interrupt at regular intervals
emphasize, stress — see emphasize
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Adjective
editpunctuate (comparative more punctuate, superlative most punctuate)
- Point-like; consisting of or marked with one or more points.
- 1918, Franklin Henry Martin, Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics, page 11:
- […] with a punctuate wound of entrance and a small wound of exit, may very properly be treated with a dry dressing and not disturbed, and in a large proportion of the cases there will be little or no tissue reaction that will require […]
- 1922, Medical Review of Reviews, page 315:
- […] with a punctuate eruption on the hard palate, and a peppery red punctuate rash becoming generalized within twenty-four hours can mean nothing else but scarlet fever. Add to this the circumoral pallor and the glandular enlargements […]
- 2005 March 22, Tor Savidge, Charalabos Pothulakis, Microbial Imaging, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 16:
- Positive HPV 16 hybridization signal in two cervical carcinomas. A punctuate signal (a) and a punctuate and diffuse signal (b).
- 2012 January 25, Ming Zhou, George Netto, Jonathan I Epstein, Uropathology E-Book: A Volume in the High Yield Pathology Series, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 403:
- […] with a punctuate or “salt and pepper” chromatin pattern • Associated with focal epidermoid cyst or teratoma in 25% of cases • Lacks intratubular germ cell neoplasia Immunopathology (including immunohistochemistry) […]
- 2012 November 8, Zoran Rumboldt, Mauricio Castillo, Benjamin Huang, Brain Imaging with MRI and CT: An Image Pattern Approach, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 344:
- […] with a punctuate wall calcification (arrow) along the right postcentral sulcus.
- 2019 April 13, Beatrice Morio, Luc Penicaud, Michel Rigoulet, Mitochondria in Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes: Comprehensive Review on Mitochondrial Functioning and Involvement in Metabolic Diseases, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 255:
- […] looking more punctuate. This mechanism is accompanied by a transient increase of mROS that could be inhibited by decreasing DRP1, thus decreasing DRP1/FIS1 association, and thus fission. In fasting animals, hypothalamic mitochondria appear […]
Further reading
edit- “punctuate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “punctuate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Latin
editVerb
editpūnctuāte
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