What is the difference between hyphenated and on-call?
hyphenated | on-call |
(hyphenate)
Written with a hyphen.
Of a person, considered to have more than one nationality or ethnicity (such as French-Canadian, Afro-Argentine, etc.).
As a verb hyphenated
is (hyphenate).As a adjective hyphenated
is written with a hyphen.hyphenated
English
Verb
(head)- Compounding the word looked wrong, so I hyphenated it instead.
Adjective
(en adjective)- Some dictionaries list hyphenated words as though they contained no punctuation.
- "[The Community Newspaper] is one of the many symbolic emblems that stand for the other half of the hyphenated American’s identity. "
Hyphenated Americans Must Look At Their Mirror -- The Community Newspaper -- To Do What Is Right
, October 28, 2005.