Apostrophe vs. Omission

Apostrophenoun

(orthography) The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts.

Apostrophenoun

(rhetoric) A sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something, especially absent.

Apostrophenoun

A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of "Paradise Lost."

Apostrophenoun

The contraction of a word by the omission of a letter or letters, which omission is marked by the character ['] placed where the letter or letters would have been; as, call'd for called.

Apostrophenoun

The mark ['] used to denote that a word is contracted (as in ne'er for never, can't for can not), and as a sign of the possessive, singular and plural; as, a boy's hat, boys' hats. In the latter use it originally marked the omission of the letter e.

Apostrophenoun

address to an absent or imaginary person

Apostrophenoun

the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word

Apostrophe

The apostrophe (' or ’) is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet and some other alphabets. In English, it is used for four purposes: The marking of the omission of one or more letters, e.g.

Omissionnoun

The act of omitting.

Omissionnoun

The act of neglecting to perform an action one has an obligation to do.

Omissionnoun

Something deleted or left out.

Omissionnoun

Something not done or neglected.

Omissionnoun

(grammar) The shortening of a word or phrase, using an apostrophe ( ' ) to replace the missing letters, often used to approximate the sound of speech or a specific dialect.

Omissionnoun

The act of omitting; neglect or failure to do something required by propriety or duty.

Omissionnoun

That which is omitted or is left undone.

Omissionnoun

a mistake resulting from neglect

Omissionnoun

something that has been omitted;

Omissionnoun

any process whereby sounds are left out of spoken words or phrases

Omissionnoun

neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something

Omissionnoun

someone or something that has been left out or excluded

Omissionnoun

the action of excluding or leaving out someone or something

Omissionnoun

a failure to fulfil a moral or legal obligation