";" meaning in Translingual

See ; in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Punctuation

Etymology: The 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. Head templates: {{head|mul|punctuation mark|English name|semicolon|or||or||or||cat2=|f1lang=en|f1nolink=|f2lang=en|f2nolink=|f3lang=en|f3nolink=|f4lang=en|f4nolink=|head=|head2=|sc=|sort=}} ; (English name semicolon), {{mul-punctuation mark|name=semicolon}} ; (English name semicolon)
  1. Indicates a pause longer than the comma and shorter than a period/full stop. Tags: punctuation
    Sense id: en-;-mul-punct-GUZ8Q98y
  2. Separates items in a list where the list items themselves include commas. Tags: punctuation
    Sense id: en-;-mul-punct-73Lt~Fmn Categories (other): Translingual usage examples with omitted translation
  3. Represents two eyes vertically aligned, the lower one winking, in order to form emoticons. Tags: punctuation
    Sense id: en-;-mul-punct-xIPtrL19
  4. (programming) Marks the end of a statement in some programming languages. Tags: punctuation Categories (topical): Programming, Translingual punctuation marks
    Sense id: en-;-mul-punct-Z-WtQc2- Disambiguation of Translingual punctuation marks: 12 6 10 61 10 Categories (other): Translingual usage examples with omitted translation Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, programming, sciences
  5. (speech therapy) Used to separate the year and month of a child's age. Tags: punctuation
    Sense id: en-;-mul-punct-Mz5ZKryv Topics: medicine, sciences, speech-therapy
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: &
Related terms: apostrophe (alt: '; ’), curly brackets, brace (alt: { }) [US], square bracket, bracket (alt: [ ]) [US], colon (alt: :), comma (alt: ,), dash (alt: ‒; –; —; ―), ellipsis (alt: ), exclamation mark (alt: !), fraction slash (alt: ), guillemet (alt: « »; ‹ ›), hyphen (alt: -; ‐), interpunct (alt: ·), interrobang (alt: ) [rare], bracket, parentheses (alt: ( )) [Canada, US], full stop, period (alt: .) [Canada, US], question mark (alt: ?), quotation marks (alt: ‘ ’ ‚; „) [formal], quotation marks (alt: "; ') [informal] [computing, engineering, mathematics, sciences, physical-sciences, natural-sciences], semicolon (alt: ;), slash, stroke (alt: /) [UK], space (alt: ] [)

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