Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A proofreading symbol (‸) used to indicate where something is to be inserted in a line of printed or written matter.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A mark (∧) used in writing, in correcting printers' proofs, etc., to indicate the proper place of something that is interlined or written in the margin.
- n. A name of the hawkbill sea-turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata.
Wiktionary
- n. graphical user interface An indicator, often a blinking line or bar, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place. Also called a cursor.
- n. nonstandard A háček.
- n. A kind of turtle, the hawksbill.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A mark [^] used by writers and proof readers to indicate that something is interlined above, or inserted in the margin, which belongs in the place marked by the caret.
- n. (Zoöl.) The hawkbill turtle. See hawkbill.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a mark used by an author or editor to indicate where something is to be inserted into a text
Etymologies
- French (Wiktionary)
- Latin, there is lacking, third person sing. present tense of carēre, to lack; see kes- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“A caret is a proofreader's symbol, indicating where words or letters are to be inserted.”
“Terror indeed," thought I. "Pannum nossum quotditty hamminum da nobs holyday, e missy nobs debitty nossa si cut nos demittimissibus debetenibas nossimus e, ne, nos hem-duckam in, in, in temptationemum, sed lillibery nos a ma -- ma --" Here a heavy lash brought the very Oh! that was "caret" to complete the sentence.”
“a heavy lash brought the very Oh! that was "caret" to complete the sentence.”
“Note, that the Chinese do not make their forgeries from the same caret of gold or silver as the originals.”
NCS Conserves Coins Recovered from the Steamship New York : Coin Collecting News
“Monster neon signs, big, blow-up gorillas floating above the used cars outside; sleek, halogen-spotted showrooms where new cars look like thousand caret diamonds in an oversized jewelry store.”
“But David Cameron says there is room for cooperation on such issues as education and the environment, and he held out the caret of at least, perhaps, discussing what the Lib Dems really want - voting reform and a switch to proportional representation.”
“Caret Browsing: This works like moving the caret in a Word doc.”
“The wear 4 caret size pearl stone studded in silver ring (open setting) on your small finger on any Monday during evening time.”
Gemology Pearl: Wear Ring or Mala to Mitigate the Negative Effects of Moon in Your Horoscope
“Shift+click: Select from the current caret position to the mouse cursor location”
How To Master Text Highlighting With Your Mouse | Lifehacker Australia
“Shift+Home/End: Select all the text from the current caret position to the beginning or end of the current line.”
How To Highlight Text Like A Keyboard Ninja | Lifehacker Australia
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘caret’.
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phrontistery - c
from phrontistery.info
caballine, cabas, cable, caboched, cabochon, caboose, cabotage, cabré, cabrie, cabriole, cabriolet, cacaesthesia and 1298 more...
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Marks
names of punctuation marks, accent marks, and other graphic signs and graphical characters used in printed, written, or digital text.
comma, period, parenthesis, apostrophe, colon, semicolon, slash, stroke, brackets, dash, em dash, en dash and 72 more...
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Allographic Homophones
Words that can be pronounced identically but are spelled differently. I've started with unusual or extensive sets. In some of these sets, no one speaker would pronounce them all the same. I've trie...
air, are, ayr, ayre, e'er, ere, err, eyre, heir, apatite, appetite, picnic and 226 more...
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Tuesday words
just the next words that come along
nasality, transignification, lapsarian, disciple, slanguage, atwitter, avast, ahoy, asleep, awake, hymnody, glissade and 573 more...
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words
diplopic, dolorous, farrago, surety, scuttlebutt, Arabesque, infarct, neurasthenia, lambent, expurge, univocal, simper and 395 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 2253 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Luck in the Shadows
Words and phrases from Lynn Flewelling's book, Luck in the Shadows.
belly, barbican, pediment, withers, hirsute, oriel, tabard, telesm, thaumaturgy, switch, spargetaction, towheaded and 125 more...
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The Glyphs & How to Name Them
Being a list of the proper names of glyphs, both exotic and common, found in the typographer's toolbox.
apostrophe, colon, brackets, comma, dash, ellipsis, exclamation point, question mark, full-stop, period, parentheses, guillemet and 60 more...
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Punctuation Junction
titlo, apostrophe, tilde, colon, hyphen, umlaut, circumflex, grave, acute, breve, caron, macron and 13 more...
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Quite a Character
Marks, symbols, and funny squiggly lines in typography.
tilde, diacritic, apostrophe, colon, comma, ellipsis, hyphen, semicolon, asterisk, at, backslash, umlaut and 16 more...
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for caret.
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