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Comma

A character or point [,] marking the smallest divisions of a sentence, written or printed.

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Punctuation 76% connected

The act or art of punctuating or pointing a writing or discourse; the art or mode of dividing literary composition into sentences, and members of a s…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Apostrophe noun · 78% connection

the mark (‘'’) used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word

Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Punctuation.
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Bolt noun · 78% connection

the act of moving with great haste; "he made a dash for the door"

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Colon noun · 78% connection

the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted

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Dash noun · 78% connection

the act of moving with great haste; "he made a dash for the door"

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Diagonal noun · 78% connection

a punctuation mark (‘/’) used to separate related items of information

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Eclipsis noun · 78% connection

omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences

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Ecphonesis noun · 78% connection

an exclamatory rhetorical device; "exclamation such as ‘O tempore! O mores’"

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Ellipsis noun · 78% connection

omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences

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Em noun · 78% connection

a quad with a square body; "since ‘em quad’ is hard to distinguish from ‘en quad’, printers sometimes called it a ‘mutton quad’"

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Em quad noun · 78% connection

a quad with a square body; "since ‘em quad’ is hard to distinguish from ‘en quad’, printers sometimes called it a ‘mutton quad’"

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En noun · 78% connection

half the width of an em

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En dash noun · 78% connection

a dash that is one-half the length of an em dash.; "The en dash is commonly used to indicate a closed range of values — a range with c…

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Exclamation noun · 78% connection

an exclamatory rhetorical device; "exclamation such as ‘O tempore! O mores’"

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Exclamation mark noun · 78% connection

a punctuation mark (‘!’) used after an exclamation

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Exclamation point noun · 78% connection

a punctuation mark (‘!’) used after an exclamation

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Full verb · 78% connection

beat for the purpose of cleaning and thickening; "full the cloth"

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Full point noun · 78% connection

a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations; "in England they…

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Full stop noun · 78% connection

a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations; "in England they…

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, a , or an . PCP. It is unknown · 78% connection

Specifically (Pros.), to go through with, as a verse, marking and distinguishing the feet of which it is composed; to show, in reading…

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Anacoluthon noun · 78% connection

A want of grammatical sequence or coherence in a sentence; an instance of a change of construction in a sentence so that the latter pa…

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And conj. · 78% connection

A particle which expresses the relation of connection or addition. It is used to conjoin a word with a word, a clause with a clause, o…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: character, point, marking, smallest, divisions.
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Apodosis noun · 78% connection

The consequent clause or conclusion in a conditional sentence, expressing the result, and thus distinguished from the protasis or clau…

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Beat noun · 78% connection

The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the b…

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Capillary noun · 78% connection

A minute, thin-walled vessel; particularly one of the smallest blood vessels connecting arteries and veins, but used also for the smal…

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Collationer noun · 78% connection

One who examines the sheets of a book that has just been printed, to ascertain whether they are correctly printed, paged, etc.

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Condemn verb · 78% connection

To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; -- with to before the penalty.

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Context noun · 78% connection

The part or parts of something written or printed, as of Scripture, which precede or follow a text or quoted sentence, or are so intim…

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Cunabula n. pl. · 78% connection

The extant copies of the first or earliest printed books, or of such as were printed in the 15th century.

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Department verb · 78% connection

Subdivision of business or official duty; especially, one of the principal divisions of executive government; as, the treasury departm…

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Dependent clause noun · 78% connection

a clause in a complex sentence that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence and that functions within the sentence as a noun or adje…

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