punctuation 音标拼音: [p
, ʌŋktʃu'eʃən]
n . 标点
n . 标点符号
标点标点符号
punctuation n 1 :
something that makes repeated and regular interruptions or divisions 2 :
the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases [
synonym :
{
punctuation }, {
punctuation mark }]
3 :
the use of certain marks to clarify meaning of written material by grouping words grammatically into sentences and clauses and phrases Punctuation \
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n . [
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ponctuation .] (
Gram .)
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 .
[
1913 Webster ]
Note :
Punctuation ,
as the term is usually understood ,
is chiefly performed with four points :
the period [.],
the colon [:],
the semicolon [;],
and the comma [,].
Other points used in writing and printing ,
partly rhetorical and partly grammatical ,
are the note of interrogation [?],
the note of exclamation [!],
the parentheses [()],
the dash [--],
and brackets [].
It was not until the 16th century that an approach was made to the present system of punctuation by the Manutii of Venice .
With Caxton ,
oblique strokes took the place of commas and periods .
[
1913 Webster ]
36 Moby Thesaurus words for "
punctuation ":
alphabet ,
ampersand ,
angle brackets ,
apostrophe ,
braces ,
colon ,
comma ,
dash ,
decimal point ,
diacritical mark ,
diagonal ,
dot ,
ellipsis ,
end stop ,
exclamation mark ,
full stop ,
hyphen ,
letter ,
parens ,
parentheses ,
period ,
point ,
punctuation marks ,
question mark ,
quotation marks ,
quotes ,
reference ,
reference mark ,
semicolon ,
single quotes ,
solidus ,
stop ,
tittle ,
virgule ,
writing system ,
written character PUNCTUATION ,
construction .
The act or method of placing points (
q .
v .)
in a written or printed instrument .
2 .
By the word point is here understood all the points in grammar ,
as the comma ,
the semicolon ,
the colon ,
and the like .
3 .
All such instruments are to be construed without any regard to the punctuation ;
and in a case of doubt ,
they ought to be construed in such a manner that they may have some effect ,
rather than in one in which they would be nugatory .
Vide Toull .
liv .
3 ,
t .
2 ,
c .
5 ,
n .
430 ;
4 T .
R .
65 ;
Barringt .
on the Stat .
394 ,
n .
Vide article Points .
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