If something happens every so often, it happens regularly, but with fairly long intervals between each occasion. She’s going to come back every so often. Every so often he would turn and look at her.

From time to time means: Occasionally. Once in a while; occasionally. Once in a while; at intervals.

phrase. If something happens every so often, it happens regularly, but with fairly long intervals between each occasion. She’s going to come back every so often.

In UK English people sometimes speak of something that happens frequently as happening “ever so often.” But when something happens only occasionally, it happens every so often.

informal. : very Thank you ever so much.

: only by a very small amount The snake moved ever so slightly.

slightly adverb (SMALL IN AMOUNT) a little: She’s slightly taller than her sister.

1. ever-changing – marked by continuous change or effective action. changing. dynamic, dynamical – characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality; “a dynamic market”; “a dynamic speaker”; “the dynamic president of the firm” Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection.

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English ever-increasing/ever-present etcincreasing, present etc all the time the ever-increasing problem of drugs in the inner cities → ever. Exercises. Exercises.

Filters. Always present; always there; ubiquitous; omnipresent. She arrived a bit late, her ever-present briefcase in tow. adjective.

Ever can also function as a prefix to mean always or continuously and is followed either by adjectives or the present participle and separated from them by a hyphen. Examples include ‘… paintings by the ever-popular Van Gogh’, ‘the ever-changing countryside’ and ‘ever-increasing numbers of students’.

Ever closer is just a hyphenation between the two words “ever” and “closer.” It is an adjective that means closer than it has been before.

Hyphenation of postponed This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

Hyphenation of bad-tempered Wondering how to hyphenate the English word bad-tempered? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

: easily annoyed or angered : having or showing a bad temper : surly, ill-tempered Bad-tempered drivers banged on the door and left cursing without a fare.—

Alternatively known as a dash, subtract, negative, or minus sign, the hyphen ( – ) is a punctuation mark on the underscore key next to the “0” key on US keyboards. Pictured is an example of the hyphen and underscore key on top of the keyboard.

Dash on a PC keyboard You can create a dash on a PC by holding down the ALT key and typing either 0150 (en-dash) or 0151 (em-dash). The en-dash and em-dash are similar but have slight differences. This website explains the difference between the en-dash and em-dash.

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To type an en-dash, you’ll need to press the Alt key and the Minus key at the same time. That’s it, you’ve now got an en-dash (–). The em-dash works similarly — it merely requires one extra key. Hold down Alt + Shift + Minus for an em-dash.

A dash is a little horizontal line that floats in the middle of a line of text (not at the bottom: that’s an underscore). It’s longer than a hyphen and is commonly used to indicate a range or a pause. Dashes are used to separate groups of words, not to separate parts of words like a hyphen does.