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- accent
- apostrophe
- at sign
- block capitals
- capitalization
- caron
- cedilla
- comma
- dash
- diacritical
- double prime
- question mark
- round brackets
- small cap
- small capitals
- solidus
- square brackets
- stroke
- unbracketed
See more results » GrammarPunctuation The most common punctuation marks in English are: capital letters and full stops, question marks, commas, colons and semi-colons, exclamation marks and quotation marks.… Punctuation: colons (:) and semi-colons (;) We use colons to introduce lists:… (Definition ofsemicolonfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)semicolon| American Dictionarygrammaramark(;) used in writing forseparatinglargeorimportantindependentpartsof asentenceoritemsin alist (Definition ofsemicolonfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)Examplesofsemicolonsemicolon For example, we tend to show the hierarchical structure of programs by indentation rather than brackets and semicolons.From theCambridge English Corpus The effect of layout on its meaning can be completely described by adding braces and semicolons in places determined by the layout.From theCambridge English Corpus Permutable elements are often separated by symbols that do not carry meaning - typically commas or semicolons.From theCambridge English Corpus This is implemented in the syntax by having different separators in the sequents, usually comma andsemicolon.From theCambridge English Corpus Besides, is usually written as not, as comma, and assemicolon.From theCambridge English Corpus Asemicolon(;) starts a comment for the remainder of the current line.From theCambridge English Corpus From now on, commas and semicolons, respectively, denote the parallel and serial compositions of orders.From theCambridge English Corpus The simple zigzags are put in the beginning, in increasing order of length, without their signature (0, 0), and separated by asemicolonfrom others.From theCambridge English Corpus Programs are sequences of commands separated by semicolons.From theCambridge English Corpus Each definition is composed of an identifier representing the name of the field to be defined, the symbol :=, the actual definition and asemicolon.From theCambridge English Corpus Entries in parentheses refer to respective seasons; first entry beforesemicolon= wet season, second entry aftersemicolon= dry season.From theCambridge English Corpus Every judgement ends with asemicolon(;), which we usually omit in typeset text, where we have access to layout.From theCambridge English Corpus In the typing judgement above, the holes and variables are separated in the antecedent with asemicolonbut this is just for clarity.From theCambridge English Corpus The other traditional definition, that of thesemicolon(;) as an infix function, unnecessarily involves the conservative approximation of application.From theCambridge English Corpus Second, a punctuation mark-in particular a comma, a colon, or asemicolon-or a conjunction must lie between two such daughters that appear consecutively.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. #https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/semicolon## |