English-French translations for asterisk

• astérisque
  Nous sommes également favorables à l'amendement astérisque. We also support the asterisk amendment.
  Pour défendre les priorités du Parlement, la commission a également produit un amendement "astérisque". To defend Parliament's own priorities, the Committee also drafted an 'asterisk' amendment.
  Nous pouvons voter par voie électronique, mais sans l' astérisque. Why can we not vote electronically, but without the asterisk?

Definition of asterisk

• The symbol *
• A blemish in an otherwise outstanding achievement
• To mark or replace with an asterisk symbol ; star

Examples

• They came into the tournament highly ranked, but with a little bit of an asterisk as their last two wins had been unconvincing.

Related words

• asterism
• rasterisation
• catasterism
• schoolmasterish