Comma vs. Semicolon
Commanoun
(typography) The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set off parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
Commanoun
A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
Commanoun
A European and North American butterfly, Polygonia c-album, of the family Nymphalidae.
Commanoun
(music) a difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
Commanoun
(genetics) A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
Commanoun
In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.
Commanoun
(figurative) A brief interval.
Commanoun
A character or point [,] marking the smallest divisions of a sentence, written or printed.
Commanoun
A small interval (the difference between a major and minor half step), seldom used except by tuners.
Commanoun
a punctuation mark (,) used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence
Commanoun
anglewing butterfly with a comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing
Comma
The comma , is a punctuation mark that appears in several variants in different languages. It has the same shape as an apostrophe or single closing quotation mark (’) in many typefaces, but it differs from them in being placed on the baseline of the text.
Semicolonnoun
The punctuation mark ;.
Semicolonnoun
The punctuation mark [;] indicating a separation between parts or members of a sentence more distinct than that marked by a comma.
Semicolonnoun
a punctuation mark (`;') used to connect independent clauses; indicates a closer relation than does a period
Semicolon
The semicolon or semi-colon ; is a symbol commonly used as orthographic punctuation. In the English language, a semicolon is most commonly used to link (in a single sentence) two independent clauses that are closely related in thought.
