semicolon

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  1. noun A mark of punctuation ( ; ) used to connect independent clauses and indicating a closer relationship between the clauses than a period does.

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  • By transposing a comma and a semicolon, the printer has here succeeded in perverting a most characteristic bit of advice of Lady Catherine's. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters, by William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh
  • You can send a story to multiple email addresses by separating the email addresses with a semicolon (;) —  13WHAM: Top Stories
  • To enclose the path name with "" when drug & is dropped, the file of the path name including the semicolon is changed. —  Netvouz - new bookmarks
  • There is absolutely no need for the semicolon or the comma that quickly follows after the word —  The Ostroy Report
  • Can you please explain to me how a semicolon is used in a script to behave like hitting the return key? —  All Discussion Groups: Message List - root
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  1. =F. Spanish semicolon = G. Swedish Danish semikolon; as semi- + colon.
 

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/ˈsɛmɪkoʊlən/
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