punctuate
نقط
definition
verb
the country's history has been punctuated by coups
occur at intervals throughout (a continuing event or a place).
Journalists at the press conference questioned the feasibility of this project, and The Beijing News punctuates the headline of its article with a question mark.
insert punctuation marks in (text).
translation of 'punctuate'
verb
رقم,
نقط,
شكل,
قاطع بين فترة و أخرى,
أكد
example
Three dozen illustrations 'punctuate' Stokes's reissued text of 1934.
style manuals tell you how to 'punctuate'
Sunken courtyards, which will be colonised, 'punctuate' the building and create pleasantly lit corridors, giving natural light to most practice and teaching rooms.
I have to pick through and revise the text, space it, and 'punctuate' it, to make it readable and suitable for use.
Similar scenes 'punctuate' a text marked by an assiduous application to the school of Ernest Hemingway, no bad model for any writer, though a notoriously difficult one to imitate.
As long as the unipolar moment lasts, then, unconventional attacks like that on the Cole or on the Khobar Towers or the ambush of the Rangers in Mogadishu will continue to 'punctuate' the headlines.
At Nili's bedside, she reads her latest novel, extracts of which 'punctuate' the text.
They fumble with sheets of paper and index cards, and mumble and 'punctuate' every five words with ‘um’.
Rice-Oxley will not only be an authorial presence on stage though, as the accompanying music is a recording of her singing Latin phrases to 'punctuate' the English text.
Attempts at singing 'punctuate' the record, and though Mos Def's technique is unconventional and amateurish, his efforts still manage to remain somewhat charming.
She cleaned his clothes when they were dirty; she worshipped him when he didn't believe he was anything; she edited his writing when he forgot to 'punctuate' .
they should be shown how to set out and 'punctuate' direct speech
And the politically correct asides that 'punctuate' the text - theology is outdated, Roman battle descriptions are offensive - are irksome.
Commands and injunctions, as I suggested, 'punctuate' the text from the outset.
Detail shots featuring blow-ups of these reflections 'punctuate' the transcript like posters in a man-hunt for the missing photographer.
It has not escaped my notice that the older authors like to 'punctuate' with a semicolon where the illocutionary force changes; but that is hardly enough to indicate that we are not dealing with coordination.
Gorgeously filmed and acted, Frida reveals the autobiography in Kahlo's art by occasionally 'punctuating' the action with tableaux based on her paintings.
Too many people, he continued, 'punctuating' his phrases with his beer, plop themselves down at the end of the day and only get up to haul their large bottoms off to bed.
Has Fred Durst really changed the name of his band simply by 'punctuating' it badly?
Actually, he's sweet and funny, 'punctuating' his conversation with eerily accurate impressions of Woody Allen, Colin Farrell and Malcolm McDowell - with whom he shares a slightly dangerous, edge-of-madness charm.
Now it was a tangle of vines and trees, 'punctuated' occasionally by stone facings buried in a sea of leaves.
She answered in a fluently written letter 'punctuated' by dashes about the death of her husband.
The same what the hell attitude returns on ‘Out-Side,’ a song where lyrics about dogs and trains 'are punctuated with' cheap sound effects.’
It is a clash of civilizations, not economic systems, and it is likely to be long, nasty, and 'punctuated' with harsh reversals.
I can still hear his rhythmic South American accent in my mind - soft ‘r's, long vowels - and see him 'punctuating' his words with his hands.
Scalia was characteristically intense, frequently shifting to the edge of his seat and 'punctuating' his thoughts with brisk gesticulations.
I bet he had no idea when he sent in his badly spelled and badly 'punctuated' letter that he would be ordered to cut off his hands and bleed over the keyboard.
From behind me I could hear the occasional sticky hiss of the spray-starch can, the steamy exhale of the iron, and my mother's voice, 'punctuating' the plot with her snide remarks.
He strips sound down to its bare essentials: few notes 'punctuated' by frequent silences.
Sarah hated how her life 'was punctuated with' ‘buts‘.
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