Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

carriage return

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.83 in modern English

Syllables: car-riage re-turn
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

On a typewriter or computer printer, the action that returns it to the beginning of the next line.

noun

The control character (0x0D in ASCII, abbreviated as CR) that originally signaled a device to perform a carriage return, but now merely indicates the end of a line of text (newline).

noun

The key or lever that initiates the carriage return action (on a typewriter) or generates the carriage return character (on a computer).

Example Sentences

"[…] but it also reduces the likelihood of the "unterminated string literal" error message that can easily occur for seemingly trivial reasons when you're working with long strings — an accidental carriage return or a misnested quotation mark is all it takes."

Inflected Forms

carriage returns (plural)

Phrases

line feed

Frequently Paired Words

enter EOL line feed return

Synonyms

mul:\r

Questions

What does carriage return mean?: On a typewriter or computer printer, the action that returns it to the beginning of the next line.

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