caret

[ kar-it ]
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noun
  1. a mark (‸) made in written or printed matter to show the place where something is to be inserted.

Origin of caret

1
1700–10; <Latin caret (there) is lacking or wanting, 3rd person singular present indicative of carēre to be without

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How to use caret in a sentence

  • Anaesthesia Sexualis status est in quo vir aut mulier omnino caret sensatione sexuali.

  • He was a tall man, rather slender, with flat, bland features punctuated only by blond caret-shaped eyebrows.

    Bear Trap | Alan Edward Nourse
  • What right has a man with a pate that looks like a caret, to shplit my head into a hundred pieces?

    The Little Clay Cart | (Attributed To) King Shudraka
  • caret profecto omnibus his, qui vitam suam vult semper habere cum famulis.'

    The Letters of Cassiodorus | Cassiodorus (AKA Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator)
  • Animan igitur omni corpore carere omnino non posse, illud, ut puto, ostendit quia Deus solus omni corpore semper caret.

    The Phantom World | Augustin Calmet

British Dictionary definitions for caret

caret

/ (ˈkærɪt) /


noun
  1. a symbol (‸) used to indicate the place in written or printed matter at which something is to be inserted

Origin of caret

1
C17: from Latin, literally: there is missing, from carēre to lack

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