Asterisk
noun
It's a symbol that looks like a little star (*) used in text to direct your attention to a footnote or annotation.
In the report, all the significant points were followed by an asterisk leading to detailed footnotes.
Often appears as...
- put an asterisk
- asterisk symbol
verb
To mark something with an asterisk symbol (*) usually to signal additional notes or comments.
He asterisked the items on the list that he thought were most important.
Often appears as...
- asterisk a comment
- asterisk a footnote
noun
In computing, ‘asterisk’ is the name of an open source software for creating communication applications.
He utilized Asterisk to build his own VoIP server.
Usage tips
Technical
noun
It's a symbol that looks like a little star (*) used in text to direct your attention to a footnote or annotation.
In the report, all the significant points were followed by an asterisk leading to detailed footnotes.
Often appears as...
- put an asterisk
- asterisk symbol
verb
To mark something with an asterisk symbol (*) usually to signal additional notes or comments.
He asterisked the items on the list that he thought were most important.
Often appears as...
- asterisk a comment
- asterisk a footnote
noun
In computing, ‘asterisk’ is the name of an open source software for creating communication applications.
He utilized Asterisk to build his own VoIP server.
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Referencing Details
An asterisk directs readers to additional information, often at the bottom of the page.
See the sections marked with an asterisk* for more examples.
Pro Tip 2/3Highlighting Exceptions
Used to indicate special cases or exceptions in a list or text.
Items with an asterisk* are not included in the sale.
Pro Tip 3/3Academic Writing
Commonly used in academic texts for citations and clarifications.
Several studies* have supported this theory.
Pro Tip 1/3Referencing Details
An asterisk directs readers to additional information, often at the bottom of the page.
See the sections marked with an asterisk* for more examples.
Pro Tip 2/3Highlighting Exceptions
Used to indicate special cases or exceptions in a list or text.
Items with an asterisk* are not included in the sale.
Pro Tip 3/3Academic Writing
Commonly used in academic texts for citations and clarifications.
Several studies* have supported this theory.
Pro Tip 1/3Referencing Details
An asterisk directs readers to additional information, often at the bottom of the page.
See the sections marked with an asterisk* for more examples.
Pro Tip 2/3Highlighting Exceptions
Used to indicate special cases or exceptions in a list or text.
Items with an asterisk* are not included in the sale.
Pro Tip 3/3Academic Writing
Commonly used in academic texts for citations and clarifications.
Several studies* have supported this theory.
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How I use Minecraft to...
Plus, they can make it asterisks or blank lines or anything they want -- whatever works best for them. We even went a little bit extra and made it so it highlights your name, so that it's easier to see if somebody mentions you. It's just one example of how doing a little bit extra, a small modification, still helps everybody be on equal footing,
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Can we domesticate...
mesquite approved every house and these are the data every row across here represents one of those 11 zones and the asterisks represent the time at which the mosquito proofing was complete and so what you can see is that just the mosquito proofing housing and nothing else caused the eradication of malaria
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Safari Live - Day 304 PIPE...
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How I use Minecraft to...
Plus, they can make it asterisks or blank lines or anything they want -- whatever works best for them. We even went a little bit extra and made it so it highlights your name, so that it's easier to see if somebody mentions you. It's just one example of how doing a little bit extra, a small modification, still helps everybody be on equal footing,
Video examples
Can we domesticate...
mesquite approved every house and these are the data every row across here represents one of those 11 zones and the asterisks represent the time at which the mosquito proofing was complete and so what you can see is that just the mosquito proofing housing and nothing else caused the eradication of malaria
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 304 PIPE...
the darkness so if the rest of them joined the party or join the dinner once already dark do they know all the Lions always tell what's the issue of course it's meat of course it is proteins so what at once asterisk us is the Lions that come at Saturn or assume you
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Quote examples
Gary Johnson
American Politician
America is big enough to accommodate differences of opinion and practice on religious and social beliefs. As a nation and as a society, we must reject discrimination, forcefully and without asterisks. Most importantly, as president, I will zealously defend the Constitution of the United States and all of its amendments.
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John Dickerson
American Journalist
The house was big enough for my brother and me to have firecracker wars at one end and leave Mom and Dad undisturbed at the other. When firecrackers weren't available, we attacked each other with pennies and marbles and clumps of Crisco, which made brilliant greasy asterisks when you missed and hit the wall.
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Eric Church
American Musician
The stigma with country is it's not cool. That's wrong. Country is very cool. I look at award shows, I look at how country is represented. Country is represented with an asterisk. We have to perform collaborations. We have to perform a tribute. We can't perform by ourselves.
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Alan Price
American Musician
When the script was written, it was sent to me with asterisks marking where he felt a song would be appropriate. Before the film was shot, the score was written. I made a demo of it, so they lived with the music as they were making the film.
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James Payn
English Novelist
It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks.
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Jeff Bezos
American Businessman
We fly to 106 kilometers. We've always had as our mission that we always wanted to fly above the Karman line because we didn't want there to be any asterisks next to your name about whether you're an astronaut or not.
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Dustin Poirier
American Athlete
I don't want to have an asterisk next to my accomplishments for the rest of my life. I don't want everybody to say, 'interim champ' every time someone says Dustin was the champion.
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W. Somerset Maugham
British Playwright
We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.
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Jeff Lowe
American Athlete
I always thought if I died in the mountains, it would put an asterisk on my climbs.
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Alan Colmes
American Journalist
There is no asterisk in the Constitution that says 'except for hate speech.
Quote examples
Gary Johnson
American Politician
America is big enough to accommodate differences of opinion and practice on religious and social beliefs. As a nation and as a society, we must reject discrimination, forcefully and without asterisks. Most importantly, as president, I will zealously defend the Constitution of the United States and all of its amendments.
Quote examples
John Dickerson
American Journalist
The house was big enough for my brother and me to have firecracker wars at one end and leave Mom and Dad undisturbed at the other. When firecrackers weren't available, we attacked each other with pennies and marbles and clumps of Crisco, which made brilliant greasy asterisks when you missed and hit the wall.
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Eric Church
American Musician
The stigma with country is it's not cool. That's wrong. Country is very cool. I look at award shows, I look at how country is represented. Country is represented with an asterisk. We have to perform collaborations. We have to perform a tribute. We can't perform by ourselves.
Quote examples
Alan Price
American Musician
When the script was written, it was sent to me with asterisks marking where he felt a song would be appropriate. Before the film was shot, the score was written. I made a demo of it, so they lived with the music as they were making the film.
Quote examples
James Payn
English Novelist
It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks.
Quote examples
Jeff Bezos
American Businessman
We fly to 106 kilometers. We've always had as our mission that we always wanted to fly above the Karman line because we didn't want there to be any asterisks next to your name about whether you're an astronaut or not.
Quote examples
Dustin Poirier
American Athlete
I don't want to have an asterisk next to my accomplishments for the rest of my life. I don't want everybody to say, 'interim champ' every time someone says Dustin was the champion.
Quote examples
W. Somerset Maugham
British Playwright
We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.
Quote examples
Jeff Lowe
American Athlete
I always thought if I died in the mountains, it would put an asterisk on my climbs.
Quote examples
Alan Colmes
American Journalist
There is no asterisk in the Constitution that says 'except for hate speech.
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