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▸ noun: The star-shaped symbol *, which is used in printing and writing for various purposes, including to refer a reader to a note at the bottom of a page or in a margin, and to indicate the omission of letters or words; a star.
▸ noun: Something resembling or shaped like an asterisk symbol.
▸ noun: (figuratively) Something which is of little importance or which is marginal; a footnote.
▸ noun: (US, sports, figuratively) A blemish in an otherwise outstanding achievement.
▸ noun: (Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism) An instrument with radiating arms resembling a star which is placed over the diskos (or paten) used during the Eucharist to prevent the veil covering the chalice and diskos from touching the host on the diskos.
▸ verb: (transitive) To mark or replace (text, etc.) with an asterisk symbol (*; noun sense 1.1); to star.
Similar:
star,
asterisc,
Asterix,
starre,
starburst,
gender asterisk,
Kleene star,
asteronym,
asterism,
splat,
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footnote,
endnote,
footnote mark,
endnote mark,
end asterisk,
end star,
end dot,
end period,
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