punctuation

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A set of symbols and marks which are used to clarify meaning in text by separating strings of words into clauses, phrases and sentences; examples include commas, hyphens, and stops (periods). countable,uncountable
    — Different languages have different rules for punctuation.
  2. Nikud countable,uncountable
    — Jeremiah ii. 34, where the meaningless אֵלֶּה ("these") of the Massoretic text should be corrected into אַלָּה or לַהאֱ ("oak" or "terebinth") […] The change is merely one of punctuation; the original Hebrew text remains unaffected.
  3. An act of punctuating. countable,uncountable

词形变化

punctuations plural

词汇关系

衍生词
film punctuation interpunctuation logical punctuation mispunctuation nonpunctuation overpunctuation punctuational punctuationism punctuationist punctuationless punctuation mark punctuation space repunctuation under-punctuation underpunctuation
相关词
point punctilious punctuate punctual punctuality apostrophe curly brackets brace square bracket bracket colon comma dash ellipsis exclamation mark fraction slash guillemet hyphen interpunct interrobang parentheses (US Canada) full stop period question mark quotation marks semicolon slash stroke space
部分词
an extensive list of such marks at Thesaurus:punctuation mark

词源

Borrowed from Medieval Latin punctuātiō (“a marking with points, a writing, agreement”), from punctuō (“to mark with points, settle”). Morphologically, punctuate + -ion.
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