Asterisk

/ˈæstəɹɪsk/ · noun

Meaning

(dated) A small star; also (by extension), something resembling or shaped like a star..

Definitions by Sense

1. (dated) A small star; also (by extension), something resembling or shaped like a star.
2. (transitive) To mark or replace (text, etc.) with an asterisk symbol (*; noun sense 1.1); to star.

Example Sentences

Add one Ray unto the common Luſtre; add not only to the Number but the Note of thy Generation; and prove not a Cloud but an Aſteriſk in thy Region.

Bank of New Zealand Estates Company Share Account now stands, as we have already seen, at £1,089,722 17s. 7d., a reduction of £760,177 2s. 5d. having been effected by the writing off of share capital. But from the point of view of its intrinsic value, the item has still to be dealt with, being asterisked in the balance sheet as follows: […]

She was determined to make the most of the trip, extracting some cultural capital from the emotional waste, and so read carefully through the Venice guidebooks she had brought, underlining the must-dos and asterisking the should-dos.

[Alain] Jaubert's preface is the longest and most detailed in our corpus; […] It covers both [Edgar Allan] Poe's work in general and the specific content of the volume (Jaubert, ingeniously, adopts an ad hoc typographical device, asterisking the references to the tales of his volume).

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• asterisks
• asterisc
• asterix
• asterisking
• asterisked

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