Hyphenate vs Hyphenator - What's the difference?
hyphenate | hyphenator |
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.
To join words or syllables with a hyphen.
A person with multiple duties or abilities, such as "writer-director", "actor-model", or "singer-songwriter".
One who, or that which, hyphenates.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 7, author=Charles Mcgrath, title=Death-Knell. Or Death Knell., work=New York Times
, passage=The greatest hyphenator ever was Shakespeare (or Shak-speare in some contemporary spellings) because he was so busy adding new words, many of them compounds, to English: “sea-change,” “leap-frog,” “bare-faced,” “fancy-free.” }}
As nouns the difference between hyphenate and hyphenator
is that hyphenate is a person with multiple duties or abilities, such as "writer-director", "actor-model", or "singer-songwriter" while hyphenator is one who, or that which, hyphenates.As a verb hyphenate
is 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.hyphenate
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