How what you eat demands more water than you think it does. By Kyle Kim, Jon Schleuss and Priya Krishnakumar April 7, 2015 California's crippling drought has prompted conservation efforts, such as replacing grass lawns and minding how long you leave the tap water running.
Hyphen. Alternatively referred to as a dash, subtract, negative, or minus sign, the hyphen (-) is a punctuation mark found on the underscore key next to the 0 key on US keyboards.
Noun. 1. hyphen-a punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text. dash. punctuation mark, punctuation-the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases.yphen. n. 1. (Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) the punctuation mark (-), used to separate the parts of some compound words, to link the words of a phrase, and between syllables of a word split between two consecutive lines of writing or printing. vb.