asterisking
SayAS-tuh-risk-ingUS/ˈæstəˌɹɪskɪŋ/UK/ˈæstəɹɪskɪŋ/
- 1Present participle and gerund of asterisk.
The league kept asterisking the records set during the suspended season.
Asterisking a claim signals that a footnote qualifies it further down the page.
Note
One spelling does two jobs. After a form of be it is progressive (the editor was asterisking names), and in noun positions it is a gerund (asterisking a claim invites a closer look). Either way it stays transitive and wants an object: the text, word or record being marked or replaced. Marking a record this way can carry the noun's figurative sense of a blemish on an otherwise outstanding achievement.
asterisking is a form of asterisk
asterisk, verb: To mark or replace text with an asterisk symbol; to star. Full entry
- Forms
- asteriskasterisks he/she/itasterisking -ing formasterisked past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- asterisk → asterisking: add -ing
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