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A single dash that is used to connect words to create a compound word.
Words that have the word 'dash' in them are dashboard and balderdash.
-.. (dash, dot, dot) --- (dash, dash, dash) - (dash) DOT
Dash is monosyllabic.
a punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text
A dash is used to connect two phrases; a hyphen is used to connect two words. Here are some examples. I use a hyphen for the compound word anti-matter. I use a dash to create a break in the flow of my sentence -- if you know what I mean.
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The word dashes is the plural form of the word dash.
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