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"diacritic"
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"sciences"
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{
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"tags": [
"US"
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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"word": "exclamation mark"
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{
"alt": "⁄",
"word": "fraction slash"
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{
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{
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{
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{
"alt": "‽",
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"rare"
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{
"word": "bracket"
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{
"word": "parentheses (US"
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{
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"word": "Canada)"
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{
"word": "full stop"
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{
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"Canada",
"US"
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{
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{
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"UK"
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{
"text": "Mary gave advice to her children: a stitch in time saves nine."
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{
"text": "Patient: Is there a doctor in here?"
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"Introduces a quotation."
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"punctuation"
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"error-lua-exec"
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{
"text": "Luruns could not speak: he was drunk."
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"text": "There was only one possible explanation: the train had never arrived"
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"punctuation"
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"error-lua-exec"
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"punctuation"
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"error-lua-exec"
]
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{
"text": "The train leaves at 5:40."
}
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"hour",
"hour#English"
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[
"minute",
"minute#English"
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[
"second",
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"time",
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"error-lua-exec"
]
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{
"text": "Alternative form: ∶ (U+2236 RATIO)"
},
{
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}
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"Separates numbers in a ratio."
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[
"ratio",
"ratio#English"
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"punctuation"
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"tags": [
"error-lua-exec"
]
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{
"text": "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope"
}
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"Separation of a title and the corresponding subtitle."
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"punctuation"
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"tags": [
"error-lua-exec"
]
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"text": "John 3:14–16 (or John III:14–16)"
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[
"information science",
"information science"
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"punctuation"
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"error-lua-exec"
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"computing",
"engineering",
"human-sciences",
"information-science",
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"ref": "1990 January 26, porpentine [username], “Re: Mommy! Gene hit me first!”, in alt.rock-n-roll.metal (Usenet; in English)",
"text": "I agree, most of the people who are listening to Whitesnake/Skid Row/Guns-n-Roses-Dude/insert_your_favorite_cheese_metal_band now will have forgotten about them in a few years. I don't think you can say the same of, say, Fates Warning, King's X, or the older metal bands (Black Sabbath version 1, Blue O:yster Cult, Moto:rhead, arguably Aerosmith).",
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"umlaut",
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[
"diaeresis",
"diaeresis#English"
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"punctuation"
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"tags": [
"error-lua-exec"
]
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"mul:Taxonomy"
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"Separates different levels of an abbreviated taxonomy."
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"taxonomy",
"taxonomy"
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[
"taxonomy",
"taxonomy#English"
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"punctuation"
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"tags": [
"error-lua-exec"
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"biology",
"natural-sciences",
"taxonomy"
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"Used in : :."
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"punctuation"
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"tags": [
"error-lua-exec"
]
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{
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"For the IPA triangular colon symbol, which marks long vowels, see ː."
],
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[
"triangular colon",
"triangular colon#English"
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[
"long vowel",
"long vowel#English"
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[
"ː",
"ː"
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"punctuation"
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"tags": [
"error-lua-exec"
]
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{
"glosses": [
"For the \"modifier colon\" symbol, used in some languages for long vowels, see ꞉."
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[
"꞉",
"꞉"
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"punctuation"
],
"tags": [
"error-lua-exec"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"For the Armenian full stop, see ։."
],
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[
"։",
"։"
]
],
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"punctuation"
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"tags": [
"error-lua-exec"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"For the Hebrew and Aramaic punctuation mark which marks the end of a passage, see ׃."
],
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[
"passage",
"passage#English"
],
[
"׃",
"׃"
]
],
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"punctuation"
],
"tags": [
"error-lua-exec"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"For the six-dot Braille characters consisting of two vertically-aligned dots, see ⠃, ⠅, ⠆, ⠘, ⠨, ⠰."
],
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[
"⠃",
"⠃"
],
[
"⠅",
"⠅"
],
[
"⠆",
"⠆"
],
[
"⠘",
"⠘"
],
[
"⠨",
"⠨"
],
[
"⠰",
"⠰"
]
],
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"punctuation"
],
"tags": [
"error-lua-exec"
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{
"glosses": [
"For the eight-dot Braille extension characters consisting of two vertically-aligned dots, see ⡁, ⡂, ⡄, ⢈, ⢐, ⢠."
],
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[
"⡁",
"⡁"
],
[
"⡂",
"⡂"
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[
"⡄",
"⡄"
],
[
"⢈",
"⢈"
],
[
"⢐",
"⢐"
],
[
"⢠",
"⢠"
]
],
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"punctuation"
],
"tags": [
"error-lua-exec"
]
}
],
"word": ":"
}
{
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"Translingual lemmas",
"Translingual punctuation marks",
"Translingual symbols"
],
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{
"form": ":",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
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{
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"2": "symbol"
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{
"categories": [
"mul:Computing"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "C: is the default system drive on Windows."
}
],
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"Indicates a storage or media drive letter (with or without path)."
],
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[
"computing",
"computing#Noun"
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[
"storage",
"storage#English"
],
[
"media",
"media#English"
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[
"drive",
"drive#English"
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[
"letter",
"letter#English"
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"(computing) Indicates a storage or media drive letter (with or without path)."
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"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
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"mul:Networking"
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{
"text": "2001:0db8:0000:0000:0000:ff00:0042:8329"
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"Separates the parts of an IPv6 address."
],
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[
"networking",
"networking#Noun"
],
[
"IPv6",
"IPv6#English"
]
],
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"(networking) Separates the parts of an IPv6 address."
],
"tags": [
"error-lua-exec"
],
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"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"networking",
"physical-sciences",
"sciences"
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{
"categories": [
"mul:Internet"
],
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"Represents two eyes vertically aligned, in order to form emoticons."
],
"links": [
[
"Internet",
"Internet"
],
[
"eye",
"eye#English"
],
[
"aligned",
"aligned#English"
],
[
"emoticon",
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],
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"(Internet) Represents two eyes vertically aligned, in order to form emoticons."
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"Internet",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Translingual dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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