See ; on Wiktionary
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{
"qualifier": "Greek-script letters",
"sense": "Greek-script letters",
"word": "ο"
},
{
"qualifier": "Greek-script letters",
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"word": "Π"
},
{
"qualifier": "Greek-script letters",
"sense": "Greek-script letters",
"word": "π"
},
{
"qualifier": "Greek-script letters",
"sense": "Greek-script letters",
"word": "Ρ"
},
{
"qualifier": "Greek-script letters",
"sense": "Greek-script letters",
"word": "ρ"
},
{
"qualifier": "Greek-script letters",
"sense": "Greek-script letters",
"word": "Σ"
},
{
"qualifier": "Greek-script letters",
"sense": "Greek-script letters",
"word": "σ"
},
{
"qualifier": "Greek-script letters",
"sense": "Greek-script letters",
"word": "ς"
},
{
"qualifier": "Greek-script letters",
"sense": "Greek-script letters",
"word": "Τ"
},
{
"qualifier": "Greek-script letters",
"sense": "Greek-script letters",
"word": "τ"
},
{
"qualifier": "Greek-script letters",
"sense": "Greek-script letters",
"word": "Υ"
},
{
"qualifier": "Greek-script letters",
"sense": "Greek-script letters",
"word": "υ"
},
{
"qualifier": "Greek-script letters",
"sense": "Greek-script letters",
"word": "Φ"
},
{
"qualifier": "Greek-script letters",
"sense": "Greek-script letters",
"word": "φ"
},
{
"qualifier": "Greek-script letters",
"sense": "Greek-script letters",
"word": "Χ"
},
{
"qualifier": "Greek-script letters",
"sense": "Greek-script letters",
"word": "χ"
},
{
"qualifier": "Greek-script letters",
"sense": "Greek-script letters",
"word": "Ψ"
},
{
"qualifier": "Greek-script letters",
"sense": "Greek-script letters",
"word": "ψ"
},
{
"qualifier": "Greek-script letters",
"sense": "Greek-script letters",
"word": "Ω"
},
{
"qualifier": "Greek-script letters",
"sense": "Greek-script letters",
"word": "ω"
},
{
"qualifier": "non-Classical letters",
"sense": "non-Classical letters",
"word": "Ϝ"
},
{
"qualifier": "non-Classical letters",
"sense": "non-Classical letters",
"word": "ϝ"
},
{
"qualifier": "non-Classical letters",
"sense": "non-Classical letters",
"word": "Ͷ"
},
{
"qualifier": "non-Classical letters",
"sense": "non-Classical letters",
"word": "ͷ"
},
{
"qualifier": "non-Classical letters",
"sense": "non-Classical letters",
"word": "Ͱ"
},
{
"qualifier": "non-Classical letters",
"sense": "non-Classical letters",
"word": "ͱ"
},
{
"qualifier": "non-Classical letters",
"sense": "non-Classical letters",
"word": "Ϻ"
},
{
"qualifier": "non-Classical letters",
"sense": "non-Classical letters",
"word": "ϻ"
},
{
"qualifier": "non-Classical letters",
"sense": "non-Classical letters",
"word": "Ϙ"
},
{
"qualifier": "non-Classical letters",
"sense": "non-Classical letters",
"word": "ϙ"
},
{
"qualifier": "non-Classical letters",
"sense": "non-Classical letters",
"word": "Ͳ"
},
{
"qualifier": "non-Classical letters",
"sense": "non-Classical letters",
"word": "ͳ"
},
{
"sense": "punctuation",
"word": "·"
},
{
"sense": "diacritics",
"word": "᾿ ῾ ◌́ ◌̀ ῀ ¨"
}
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{
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"Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
"Ancient Greek lemmas",
"Ancient Greek punctuation marks",
"Ancient Greek terms with redundant head parameter",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries"
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"glosses": [
"? (the Greek question mark)"
],
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[
"?",
"?"
]
],
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"punctuation"
]
}
],
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}
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"Greek terms with usage examples",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries"
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"english": "Excuse me; where are the toilets?",
"roman": "Me synchoreíte; poú eínai oi toualétes;",
"text": "Με συγχωρείτε· πού είναι οι τουαλέτες;",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"?"
]
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]
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}
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}
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"Pages with entries"
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],
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"tone",
"tone#English"
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]
}
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"ipa": "/ʔ/"
}
],
"word": ";"
}
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"Pages with entries",
"Translingual emoticons",
"Translingual entries with incorrect language header",
"Translingual lemmas",
"Translingual punctuation marks"
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{
"word": "&"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Derives from the punctus versus.\nThe Italian printer Aldus Manutius established the practice of using the semicolon mark to separate words of opposed meaning, and to indicate interdependent statements. The earliest, general use of the semicolon in English was in 1591.",
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"name"
]
}
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"f3lang": "en",
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"sc": "",
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"alt": "'; ’",
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{
"word": "curly brackets"
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{
"alt": "{ }",
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"US"
],
"word": "brace"
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{
"word": "square bracket"
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{
"alt": "[ ]",
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"US"
],
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{
"alt": ":",
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},
{
"alt": ",",
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},
{
"alt": "‒; –; —; ―",
"word": "dash"
},
{
"alt": "…",
"word": "ellipsis"
},
{
"alt": "!",
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},
{
"alt": "⁄",
"word": "fraction slash"
},
{
"alt": "« »; ‹ ›",
"word": "guillemet"
},
{
"alt": "-; ‐",
"word": "hyphen"
},
{
"alt": "·",
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},
{
"alt": "‽",
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{
"word": "bracket"
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{
"word": "parentheses (US"
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{
"alt": "( )",
"word": "Canada)"
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{
"word": "full stop"
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{
"alt": ".",
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"US"
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"word": "period"
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{
"alt": "?",
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{
"alt": "‘ ’ ‚; „",
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{
"alt": "\"; '",
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"engineering",
"mathematics",
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"physical-sciences",
"natural-sciences"
],
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{
"alt": ";",
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},
{
"word": "slash"
},
{
"alt": "/",
"tags": [
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],
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},
{
"alt": "] [",
"word": "space"
}
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[
"period",
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"full stop",
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{
"categories": [
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{
"text": "Guests at the summit included David Cameron, the British Prime Minister; Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor; and François Hollande, the French President.",
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}
],
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"Separates items in a list where the list items themselves include commas."
],
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"punctuation"
]
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{
"glosses": [
"Represents two eyes vertically aligned, the lower one winking, in order to form emoticons."
],
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"eye",
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],
[
"lower",
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"wink",
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"emoticon",
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]
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"punctuation"
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"categories": [
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"Translingual usage examples with omitted translation",
"mul:Programming"
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{
"text": "<?php echo '<p>Hello World</p>'; ?>",
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}
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"Marks the end of a statement in some programming languages."
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[
"programming",
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[
"statement",
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"(programming) Marks the end of a statement in some programming languages."
],
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"punctuation"
],
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"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"programming",
"sciences"
]
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{
"glosses": [
"Used to separate the year and month of a child's age."
],
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"(speech therapy) Used to separate the year and month of a child's age."
],
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"punctuation"
],
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"medicine",
"sciences",
"speech-therapy"
]
}
],
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}
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