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The ditto mark is a shorthand sign, used mostly in hand-written text, indicating that the words or figures above it are to be repeated. [1] [2]The mark is made using "a pair of apostrophes"; [1] "a pair of marks " used underneath a word"; [3] the symbol " (quotation mark); [2] [4] or the symbol ” (right double quotation mark).
The meaning of the original word is broadened. For example, tabak means "plate(s)", and tabak mabak then means "plates, dishes and such". This can be applied to all kinds of words, as in yeşil meşil meaning "green, greenish, whatever". Although not used in formal written Turkish, it is a standard accepted construction.
Iteration marks have been occasionally used for more than two thousand years in China.The example image shows an inscription in bronze script, a variety of formal writing dating to the Zhou dynasty, that ends with "子 𠄠 孫 𠄠 寶用", where the small 𠄠 ("two") is used as iteration marks in the phrase "子子孫孫寶用" ("descendants to use and to treasure").
1) (Slang) Down, or set. "We're off two" means "We have made two fewer tricks than our contract." 2) (Slang) offside. Offense-to-defense ratio (ODR) High ODR means a hand has characteristics more suited to winning the final contract, while Low ODR means it has characteristics more suited to defending against opponents' contract.
This is a list of places with reduplication in their names, often as a result of the grammatical rules of the languages from which the names are derived.. Duplicated names from the indigenous languages of Australia, Chile and New Zealand are listed separately and excluded from this page.
Did you know there are two 'Rochesters' in New York state? And a number of other locales share the same name.
Duplicate bridge, a popular variant of contract bridge; Duplicate Scrabble, a Scrabble variant popular in French and some other languages "Decouple, duplicate, discriminate," the "three Ds" articulated by Madeleine Albright as necessary for NATO to avoid; Duplicate, another term for Body double in films
The following is a list of the 172 most common word duplicates (number after word is count of occurrences) extracted from a search of all English Wikipedia articles existing on 21 February 2006. Most punctuation was automatically removed and so the count is unlikely to be 100% accurate.