| 单词 | punctuation mark |
| 释义 | punctuation mark (once / 53482 pages) n WORD FAMILY punctuation mark: punctuation marks USAGE EXAMPLESJust before it was set to be released, someone noticed a stray punctuation mark. Washington Post(Nov 23, 2016) There’s no end here, just a punctuation mark, a measly comma between the rancor that has built until this point and the fury to come. Seattle Times(Nov 05, 2016) If your room were a sentence, these would be the punctuation marks. Washington Post(Sep 20, 2016) n the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases Syn|Hypo|Hyper punctuation ampersand a punctuation mark (&) used to represent conjunction (and) apostrophethe mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word braceeither of two punctuation marks ({ or }) used to enclose textual material bracket, square bracketeither of two punctuation marks ([ or ]) used to enclose textual material angle bracket, bracketeither of two punctuation marks (`') used in computer programming and sometimes used to enclose textual material colona punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter) commaa punctuation mark (,) used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence exclamation mark, exclamation pointa punctuation mark (!) used after an exclamation dash, hyphena punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text parenthesiseither of two punctuation marks (or) used to enclose textual material full point, full stop, period, point, stopa punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations interrogation point, question marka punctuation mark (?) placed at the end of a sentence to indicate a question inverted comma, quotation mark, quotea punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else semicolona punctuation mark (`;') used to connect independent clauses; indicates a closer relation than does a period diagonal, separatrix, slash, solidus, stroke, virgulea punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information swung dasha punctuation mark used in text to indicate the omission of a word suspension point(usually plural) one of a series of points indicating that something has been omitted or that the sentence is incomplete single quotea single quotation mark double quotesa pair of quotation marks scare quotethe use of quotation marks to indicate that it is not the authors preferred terminology mark a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation) |
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