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Definition of Punctuation
1. Noun. Something that makes repeated and regular interruptions or divisions.
2. Noun. The marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases.
Group relationships: Orthography, Writing System
Generic synonyms: Mark
Specialized synonyms: Ampersand, Apostrophe, Brace, Bracket, Square Bracket, Angle Bracket, Bracket, Colon, Comma, Exclamation Mark, Exclamation Point, Dash, Hyphen, Parenthesis, Full Point, Full Stop, Period, Point, Stop, Interrogation Point, Question Mark, Inverted Comma, Quotation Mark, Quote, Semicolon, Diagonal, Separatrix, Slash, Solidus, Stroke, Virgule, Swung Dash
Derivative terms: Punctuate
3. Noun. The use of certain marks to clarify meaning of written material by grouping words grammatically into sentences and clauses and phrases.
Generic synonyms: Grouping
Group relationships: Orthography, Writing System
Derivative terms: Punctuate
Definition of Punctuation
1. n. 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 sentence, by means of points, so as to elucidate the author's meaning.
Definition of Punctuation
1. Noun. A set of symbols and marks which are used to clarify meaning in text by separating strings of words into clauses, phrases and sentences. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Punctuation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Punctuation
Literary usage of Punctuation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1885)
"Some little time ago a writer in the Paper and Printing Trades Journal propounded
a plan whereby punctuation might be abolished. He was of opinion that all ..."
2. American Journal of Education by Barnard (1882)
"More will be gained by insisting on punctuation whenever a passage is copied from a
... This slovenly habit is fatal to true appreciation of punctuation; ..."
3. Statutes and Statutory Construction: Including a Discussion of Legislative by Jabez Gridley Sutherland (1904)
"punctuation.— When statutes were enacted without punctuation, it was a necessary
conclusion that the punctuation subsequently inserted was no part of the ..."
4. Handbook on the Construction and Interpretation of the Laws by Henry Campbell Black (1911)
"punctuation 86. The punctuation marks in the published copies of an act are not
allowed to control, enlarge, or restrict the plain and evident meaning of ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"A large number of various punctuation-marks were used. ... It was the rule in
the classical period to place punctuation-marks only within lines, ..."
6. Business English by Edwin Herbert Lewis (1911)
"Chapters on punctuation are usually assigned to the end of the book and ...
And yet Nathaniel Hawthorne called punctuation a fine art, and Hawthorne is ..."
7. Business English by Edwin Herbert Lewis (1911)
"Chapters on punctuation are usually assigned to the end of the book and ...
And yet Nathaniel Hawthorne called punctuation a fine art, and Hawthorne is ..."
8. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1907)
"Here is the result in one long letter (vi. 16): punctuation of ... punctuation
corrected by i agreeing with Aldus, 18 times. punctuation corrected by i not ..."
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