hyphenate

vt. 用连字号连接

发音

US /ˈhaɪfənət/
US /ˈhaɪf(ə)ˌneɪt/
其它
UK /ˈhaɪfənət/
UK /ˈhaɪf(ə)ˌneɪt/

词形变化

hyphenates 复数 hyphenates hyphenated hyphenates 三单 hyphenating hyphenating 现在分词 hyphenated 过去式 hyphenated 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A person or object with multiple duties, abilities or characteristics, such as "writer-director", "actor-model", or "singer-songwriter".

  2. 2.

    A person whose ethnicity is a multi-word hyphenated term, such as "African-American".

v.
  1. 1.

    to break a word at the end of a line according to the hyphenation rules by adding a hyphen on the end of the line.

    及物
  2. 2.

    to join words or syllables with a hyphen.

    及物

    you have to hyphenate his surname as it's double-barrelled

词汇关系

动词

同义词 1

hyphen

上位词 2

write spell

词源

From hyphen + -ate (noun-forming suffix).

来源：wiktionary