See `period` in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "⟨·⟩"
},
"expansion": "⟨·⟩",
"name": "nowrap"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "·"
},
"expansion": "⟨·⟩",
"name": "angbr"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "⟨.⟩"
},
"expansion": "⟨.⟩",
"name": "nowrap"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "."
},
"expansion": "⟨.⟩",
"name": "angbr"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "⟨˙⟩"
},
"expansion": "⟨˙⟩",
"name": "nowrap"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "˙"
},
"expansion": "⟨˙⟩",
"name": "angbr"
}
],
"etymology_text": "The periodos of Aristophanes of Byzantium, ca. 200 BCE. Originally there were three dots: ⟨·⟩ at mid height (the comma), ⟨.⟩ at the baseline (the colon), and ⟨˙⟩ at capital height (the periodos). When minuscule writing became common, it proved difficult to make a three-way height distinction, and only the periodos was retained, though it shifted to the baseline.",
"forms": [
{
"form": ".",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "full stop",
"tags": [
"English",
"name"
]
},
{
"form": "period",
"tags": [
"English",
"name"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "mul",
"10": "",
"11": "or",
"12": "",
"2": "punctuation mark",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "English name",
"6": "full stop",
"7": "or",
"8": "period",
"9": "or",
"cat2": "",
"f1lang": "en",
"f1nolink": "",
"f2lang": "en",
"f2nolink": "",
"f3lang": "en",
"f3nolink": "",
"f4lang": "en",
"f4nolink": "",
"head": ".",
"head2": "",
"sc": "",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": ". (English name full stop or period)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"head": ".",
"name": "full stop",
"name2": "period"
},
"expansion": ". (English name full stop or period)",
"name": "mul-punctuation mark"
}
],
"lang": "Translingual",
"lang_code": "mul",
"original_title": "Unsupported titles/`period`",
"pos": "punct",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"Indicates the end of a sentence or passage of text."
],
"id": "en-`period`-mul-punct-TmN3~MwQ",
"links": [
[
"sentence",
"sentence#English"
],
[
"passage",
"passage#English"
],
[
"text",
"text#English"
]
],
"raw_tags": [
"punctuation"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Translingual terms with collocations",
"parents": [
"Terms with collocations",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "et cetera",
"text": "etc.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "Mr J. Smith",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Marks the end of an abbreviated word."
],
"id": "en-`period`-mul-punct-r5ohBC8O",
"links": [
[
"abbreviate",
"abbreviate#English"
]
],
"raw_tags": [
"punctuation"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "A. New York, B. London, C. Paris.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "a. New York, b. London, c. Paris.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "1. New York, 2. London, 3. Paris.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "I. New York, II. London, III. Paris.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Separates a number or letter from an item in a list."
],
"id": "en-`period`-mul-punct-mul:list_separator",
"raw_tags": [
"punctuation"
],
"senseid": [
"mul:list separator"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "I. Don’t. Wanna. Hear.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Used between words to indicate staccato speech with emphasis laid on every word."
],
"id": "en-`period`-mul-punct-ZgHr99GF",
"links": [
[
"word",
"word#English"
],
[
"staccato",
"staccato#English"
],
[
"emphasis",
"emphasis#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal) Used between words to indicate staccato speech with emphasis laid on every word."
],
"raw_tags": [
"punctuation"
],
"tags": [
"informal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Translingual terms with collocations",
"parents": [
"Terms with collocations",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "fourth",
"text": "4., IV.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Used at the end of numerals.",
"Indicates ordinal numerals."
],
"id": "en-`period`-mul-punct-gcFUkHGN",
"links": [
[
"numeral",
"numeral#English"
]
],
"raw_tags": [
"punctuation"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Translingual terms with collocations",
"parents": [
"Terms with collocations",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "one hundred",
"text": "100.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Used at the end of numerals.",
"Indicates cardinal numbers."
],
"id": "en-`period`-mul-punct-mLY9BxeN",
"links": [
[
"numeral",
"numeral#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"Used at the end of numerals.",
"(obsolete) Indicates cardinal numbers."
],
"raw_tags": [
"punctuation"
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "IPA symbols",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "3 4 4 1 2 1 2 4 3 13 1 1 3 3 3 2 2 4 4 5 5 7 6 5 4 4 3",
"kind": "other",
"name": "IPA symbols",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Indicates a syllable break."
],
"id": "en-`period`-mul-punct-~wlok3T7",
"links": [
[
"syllable",
"syllable#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(IPA) Indicates a syllable break."
],
"raw_tags": [
"punctuation"
],
"tags": [
"IPA"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"english": "10.1.4.7 How to keep your profit",
"text": "10.1.4.6 How to make a profit",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Used in numbered section or subsection titles, separates the sections and subsections."
],
"id": "en-`period`-mul-punct-xoIzz6VK",
"links": [
[
"section",
"section#English"
],
[
"subsection",
"subsection#English"
],
[
"title",
"title#English"
]
],
"raw_tags": [
"punctuation"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Map 1.5 Distribution of elephants in Africa",
"text": "Map 1.4 Distribution of tigers in Africa",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Used in numbered images, illustrations, maps, graphs, etc."
],
"id": "en-`period`-mul-punct-Y0GHTWSn",
"links": [
[
"image",
"image#English"
],
[
"illustration",
"illustration#English"
],
[
"map",
"map#English"
],
[
"graph",
"graph#English"
]
],
"raw_tags": [
"punctuation"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Introduction..................................13\nChapter 1.....................................14\nChapter 2.....................................19",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Used repeatedly in the table of contents of a book to separate the name of a chapter, section, image, etc., from the page number where it is found."
],
"id": "en-`period`-mul-punct-eUcfVM71",
"links": [
[
"table of contents",
"table of contents#English"
],
[
"book",
"book#English"
]
],
"raw_tags": [
"punctuation"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "mul",
"name": "Australian rules football",
"orig": "mul:Australian rules football",
"parents": [
"Football",
"Ball games",
"Sports",
"Human activity",
"Human behaviour",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Brisbane Lions 20.14 (134) defeated Collingwood 12.12 (84)",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "Brisbane Lions 20.14.134 defeated Collingwood 12.12.84",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Used to separate a team’s number of goals from its number of behinds, and sometimes from its total score."
],
"id": "en-`period`-mul-punct-tU07MONW",
"links": [
[
"Australian rules football",
"Australian rules football"
]
],
"qualifier": "Australian rules football",
"raw_glosses": [
"(Australian rules football) Used to separate a team’s number of goals from its number of behinds, and sometimes from its total score."
],
"raw_tags": [
"punctuation"
]
}
],
"word": "`period`"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "⟨·⟩"
},
"expansion": "⟨·⟩",
"name": "nowrap"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "·"
},
"expansion": "⟨·⟩",
"name": "angbr"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "⟨.⟩"
},
"expansion": "⟨.⟩",
"name": "nowrap"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "."
},
"expansion": "⟨.⟩",
"name": "angbr"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "⟨˙⟩"
},
"expansion": "⟨˙⟩",
"name": "nowrap"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "˙"
},
"expansion": "⟨˙⟩",
"name": "angbr"
}
],
"etymology_text": "The periodos of Aristophanes of Byzantium, ca. 200 BCE. Originally there were three dots: ⟨·⟩ at mid height (the comma), ⟨.⟩ at the baseline (the colon), and ⟨˙⟩ at capital height (the periodos). When minuscule writing became common, it proved difficult to make a three-way height distinction, and only the periodos was retained, though it shifted to the baseline.",
"forms": [
{
"form": ".",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "mul",
"2": "symbol",
"head": "."
},
"expansion": ".",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Translingual",
"lang_code": "mul",
"original_title": "Unsupported titles/`period`",
"pos": "symbol",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"alt": "'; ’",
"word": "apostrophe"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "curly brackets"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"alt": "{ }",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"word": "brace"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "square bracket"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"alt": "[ ]",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"word": "bracket"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"alt": ":",
"word": "colon"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"alt": ",",
"word": "comma"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"alt": "‒; –; —; ―",
"word": "dash"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"alt": "…",
"word": "ellipsis"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"alt": "!",
"word": "exclamation mark"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"alt": "⁄",
"word": "fraction slash"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"alt": "« »; ‹ ›",
"word": "guillemet"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"alt": "-; ‐",
"word": "hyphen"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"alt": "·",
"word": "interpunct"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"alt": "‽",
"tags": [
"rare"
],
"word": "interrobang"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "bracket"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "parentheses (US"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"alt": "( )",
"word": "Canada)"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "full stop"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"alt": ".",
"tags": [
"Canada",
"US"
],
"word": "period"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"alt": "?",
"word": "question mark"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"alt": "‘ ’ ‚; „",
"tags": [
"formal"
],
"word": "quotation marks"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"alt": "\"; '",
"tags": [
"informal"
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"natural-sciences"
],
"word": "quotation marks"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"alt": ";",
"word": "semicolon"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "slash"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"alt": "/",
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"word": "stroke"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"alt": "] [",
"word": "space"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"A separator used with numbers.",
"In some counting systems, sets off the decimal or fractional part of a number."
],
"id": "en-`period`-mul-symbol-MtLWYzAc",
"links": [
[
"separator",
"separator#English"
],
[
"number",
"number#English"
],
[
"sets off",
"set off#English"
],
[
"decimal",
"decimal#English"
],
[
"fractional",
"fractional#English"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"english": "in other counting systems",
"word": "·"
},
{
"word": ","
},
{
"word": "’"
}
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A separator used with numbers.",
"In some counting systems, separates groups of three consecutive digits."
],
"id": "en-`period`-mul-symbol-y3gbmWD4",
"links": [
[
"separator",
"separator#English"
],
[
"number",
"number#English"
],
[
"separate",
"separate#English"
],
[
"group",
"group#English"
],
[
"consecutive",
"consecutive#English"
],
[
"digit",
"digit#English"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"english": "in other counting systems",
"word": "] ["
},
{
"word": ","
},
{
"word": "٬"
},
{
"word": "’"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1986, D. P. Poppi, “Nitrogen transactions in the digestive tract of lambs exposed to the intestinal parasite, Trichostrongylus colubriformis”, in British Journal of Nutrition, volume 55, number 3 (in English), page 593:",
"text": "Basically 300 μCi ⁵¹CrCl₃ contained in 10 ml sterile saline was injected into the jugular vein and the radioactivity and protein concentration of the plasma determined in samples of blood withdrawn by vacupuncture at 09.00 hours each morning for the following 5 d.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2004, Steve Moxon, “Storyline: Bev Gets Knotted”, in The Great Immigration Scandal (in English), Imprint Academic, →ISBN, page 195:",
"text": "At 12.30 in the afternoon – half-an-hour earlier and she could have been accused of perpetrating an April Fool’s swansong deception – Hughes stood up in the Commons, doughnutted by as ugly a bunch of sad or scowling Blair babes as you could gather.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2005 December 16, “Online Style Guide - T”, in Times Online (in English), archived from the original on 2007-02-13:",
"text": "Use a point in expressing continental time - 01.55, 14.00 etc.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Steven Crook, Taiwan (Bradt Guides), 2nd edition (in English), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 328:",
"text": "Three ferries per day sail from Nangan to Xiju’s Qingfan Port and Dongju’s Mengao Harbour (departs 🕘︎ 07.00, 11.00 & 14.30; takes 50mins; NTD200 one-way).",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A separator used with numbers.",
"Separates hours, minutes, and seconds when reporting 24-hour time."
],
"id": "en-`period`-mul-symbol-mul:time",
"links": [
[
"separator",
"separator#English"
],
[
"number",
"number#English"
],
[
"hour",
"hour#English"
],
[
"minute",
"minute#English"
],
[
"second",
"second#English"
],
[
"time",
"time#English"
]
],
"senseid": [
"mul:time"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": ":"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "mul",
"name": "Computing",
"orig": "mul:Computing",
"parents": [
"Technology",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "mul",
"name": "Networking",
"orig": "mul:Networking",
"parents": [
"Computing",
"Technology",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "mul",
"name": "Programming",
"orig": "mul:Programming",
"parents": [
"Computing",
"Software engineering",
"Technology",
"Computer science",
"Engineering",
"Software",
"All topics",
"Sciences",
"Applied sciences",
"Media",
"Fundamental",
"Communication"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "the ‘x’ property of the ‘point’ variable",
"text": "point.x",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"In various programming languages, the structure access operator."
],
"id": "en-`period`-mul-symbol-oZ4LD8gH",
"links": [
[
"programming",
"programming#Noun"
],
[
"computing",
"computing#Noun"
],
[
"networking",
"networking#Noun"
],
[
"programming language",
"programming language#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(programming, computing, networking)",
"In various programming languages, the structure access operator."
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"networking",
"physical-sciences",
"programming",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "mul",
"name": "Computing",
"orig": "mul:Computing",
"parents": [
"Technology",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "mul",
"name": "Networking",
"orig": "mul:Networking",
"parents": [
"Computing",
"Technology",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "mul",
"name": "Programming",
"orig": "mul:Programming",
"parents": [
"Computing",
"Software engineering",
"Technology",
"Computer science",
"Engineering",
"Software",
"All topics",
"Sciences",
"Applied sciences",
"Media",
"Fundamental",
"Communication"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "echo 'I am currently ' . myAge(1981) . ' old.';",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"In various programming languages, the string concatenation operator."
],
"id": "en-`period`-mul-symbol-8DEg~nMD",
"links": [
[
"programming",
"programming#Noun"
],
[
"computing",
"computing#Noun"
],
[
"networking",
"networking#Noun"
],
[
"string",
"string#English"
],
[
"concatenation",
"concatenation#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(programming, computing, networking)",
"In various programming languages, the string concatenation operator."
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"networking",
"physical-sciences",
"programming",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "mul",
"name": "Computing",
"orig": "mul:Computing",
"parents": [
"Technology",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "mul",
"name": "Networking",
"orig": "mul:Networking",
"parents": [
"Computing",
"Technology",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "mul",
"name": "Programming",
"orig": "mul:Programming",
"parents": [
"Computing",
"Software engineering",
"Technology",
"Computer science",
"Engineering",
"Software",
"All topics",
"Sciences",
"Applied sciences",
"Media",
"Fundamental",
"Communication"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "list the contents of the current directory",
"text": "ls .",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"In various operating systems, the current directory."
],
"id": "en-`period`-mul-symbol-0kpMOGAy",
"links": [
[
"programming",
"programming#Noun"
],
[
"computing",
"computing#Noun"
],
[
"networking",
"networking#Noun"
],
[
"directory",
"directory#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(programming, computing, networking)",
"In various operating systems, the current directory."
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"networking",
"physical-sciences",
"programming",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "mul",
"name": "Computing",
"orig": "mul:Computing",
"parents": [
"Technology",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "mul",
"name": "Networking",
"orig": "mul:Networking",
"parents": [
"Computing",
"Technology",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "mul",
"name": "Programming",
"orig": "mul:Programming",
"parents": [
"Computing",
"Software engineering",
"Technology",
"Computer science",
"Engineering",
"Software",
"All topics",
"Sciences",
"Applied sciences",
"Media",
"Fundamental",
"Communication"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "div.quotedtext {font-style: italic}",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The class selector in CSS, which intends to format a class of an element. (A class can appear freely one or more times in a page, as opposed to the ID selector: #)."
],
"id": "en-`period`-mul-symbol-0f~kqHV-",
"links": [
[
"programming",
"programming#Noun"
],
[
"computing",
"computing#Noun"
],
[
"networking",
"networking#Noun"
],
[
"class",
"class#English"
],
[
"CSS",
"CSS#English"
],
[
"format",
"format#English"
],
[
"element",
"element#English"
],
[
"ID",
"ID#English"
],
[
"#",
"Unsupported titles/`num`#Translingual"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(programming, computing, networking)",
"The class selector in CSS, which intends to format a class of an element. (A class can appear freely one or more times in a page, as opposed to the ID selector: #)."
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"networking",
"physical-sciences",
"programming",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "mul",
"name": "Computing",
"orig": "mul:Computing",
"parents": [
"Technology",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "mul",
"name": "Networking",
"orig": "mul:Networking",
"parents": [
"Computing",
"Technology",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "mul",
"name": "Programming",
"orig": "mul:Programming",
"parents": [
"Computing",
"Software engineering",
"Technology",
"Computer science",
"Engineering",
"Software",
"All topics",
"Sciences",
"Applied sciences",
"Media",
"Fundamental",
"Communication"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "4 3 5 3 1 1 3 4 0 3 6 6 2 2 2 1 2 3 1 2 5 5 5 3 11 9 4 2 1 1",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 8 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 3 5 3 1 1 3 4 0 3 7 7 2 2 2 0 1 3 2 2 5 5 5 3 11 9 5 2 2 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 3 5 3 1 1 3 4 0 3 6 6 2 2 2 1 2 3 1 2 5 5 5 3 10 9 5 2 2 1",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with raw sortkeys",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "3 1 1 4 4 0 3 7 7 2 2 2 1 2 3 2 2 6 6 6 4 12 11 6 3 3 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Translingual entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "3 1 1 4 4 1 3 7 6 2 2 2 2 2 3 2 2 6 6 6 4 12 10 6 3 3 1",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Translingual terms with non-redundant manual script codes",
"parents": [
"Terms with non-redundant manual script codes",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "3 1 1 4 4 0 3 7 6 2 2 2 1 2 3 2 2 6 6 6 4 12 11 6 3 3 1",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Translingual terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"parents": [
"Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "3 1 2 3 6 1 3 8 7 2 2 2 3 2 3 2 2 6 6 7 3 11 10 5 2 2 1",
"kind": "topical",
"name": "Translingual punctuation marks",
"parents": [
"Punctuation marks",
"Letters, symbols, and punctuation",
"Symbols",
"Orthography",
"Writing",
"Human behaviour",
"Language",
"Human",
"Communication",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "the file with the base name ‘document’ and the extension ‘txt’",
"text": "document.txt",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A delimiter.",
"Separates a file name from its extension."
],
"id": "en-`period`-mul-symbol-siA55VAq",
"links": [
[
"programming",
"programming#Noun"
],
[
"computing",
"computing#Noun"
],
[
"networking",
"networking#Noun"
],
[
"delimiter",
"delimiter#English"
],
[
"file",
"file#English"
],
[
"extension",
"extension#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(programming, computing, networking)",
"A delimiter.",
"Separates a file name from its extension."
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"networking",
"physical-sciences",
"programming",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "mul",
"name": "Computing",
"orig": "mul:Computing",
"parents": [
"Technology",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "mul",
"name": "Networking",
"orig": "mul:Networking",
"parents": [
"Computing",
"Technology",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "mul",
"name": "Programming",
"orig": "mul:Programming",
"parents": [
"Computing",
"Software engineering",
"Technology",
"Computer science",
"Engineering",
"Software",
"All topics",
"Sciences",
"Applied sciences",
"Media",
"Fundamental",
"Communication"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "4 3 5 3 1 1 3 4 0 3 6 6 2 2 2 1 2 3 1 2 5 5 5 3 11 9 4 2 1 1",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 8 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 3 5 3 1 1 3 4 0 3 7 7 2 2 2 0 1 3 2 2 5 5 5 3 11 9 5 2 2 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 3 5 3 1 1 3 4 0 3 6 6 2 2 2 1 2 3 1 2 5 5 5 3 10 9 5 2 2 1",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with raw sortkeys",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "3 1 1 4 4 0 3 7 7 2 2 2 1 2 3 2 2 6 6 6 4 12 11 6 3 3 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Translingual entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "3 1 1 4 4 1 3 7 6 2 2 2 2 2 3 2 2 6 6 6 4 12 10 6 3 3 1",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Translingual terms with non-redundant manual script codes",
"parents": [
"Terms with non-redundant manual script codes",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "3 1 1 4 4 0 3 7 6 2 2 2 1 2 3 2 2 6 6 6 4 12 11 6 3 3 1",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Translingual terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"parents": [
"Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "3 1 2 3 6 1 3 8 7 2 2 2 3 2 3 2 2 6 6 7 3 11 10 5 2 2 1",
"kind": "topical",
"name": "Translingual punctuation marks",
"parents": [
"Punctuation marks",
"Letters, symbols, and punctuation",
"Symbols",
"Orthography",
"Writing",
"Human behaviour",
"Language",
"Human",
"Communication",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "the Internet domain name with components ‘en’, ‘wiktionary’, and ‘org’",
"text": "en.wiktionary.org",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A delimiter.",
"Separates the parts of the domain name of a website (including the subdomain and the top-level domain)."
],
"id": "en-`period`-mul-symbol-vjrYy9Xw",
"links": [
[
"programming",
"programming#Noun"
],
[
"computing",
"computing#Noun"
],
[
"networking",
"networking#Noun"
],
[
"delimiter",
"delimiter#English"
],
[
"domain",
"domain#English"
],
[
"website",
"website#English"
],
[
"subdomain",
"subdomain#English"
],
[
"top-level domain",
"top-level domain#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(programming, computing, networking)",
"A delimiter.",
"Separates the parts of the domain name of a website (including the subdomain and the top-level domain)."
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"networking",
"physical-sciences",
"programming",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "mul",
"name": "Computing",
"orig": "mul:Computing",
"parents": [
"Technology",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "mul",
"name": "Networking",
"orig": "mul:Networking",
"parents": [
"Computing",
"Technology",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "mul",
"name": "Programming",
"orig": "mul:Programming",
"parents": [
"Computing",
"Software engineering",
"Technology",
"Computer science",
"Engineering",
"Software",
"All topics",
"Sciences",
"Applied sciences",
"Media",
"Fundamental",
"Communication"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "version 1.2.16",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A delimiter.",
"Separates the parts of a version number."
],
"id": "en-`period`-mul-symbol-iZxsqUyo",
"links": [
[
"programming",
"programming#Noun"
],
[
"computing",
"computing#Noun"
],
[
"networking",
"networking#Noun"
],
[
"delimiter",
"delimiter#English"
],
[
"version number",
"version number#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(programming, computing, networking)",
"A delimiter.",
"Separates the parts of a version number."
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"networking",
"physical-sciences",
"programming",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "mul",
"name": "Computing",
"orig": "mul:Computing",
"parents": [
"Technology",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "mul",
"name": "Networking",
"orig": "mul:Networking",
"parents": [
"Computing",
"Technology",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "mul",
"name": "Programming",
"orig": "mul:Programming",
"parents": [
"Computing",
"Software engineering",
"Technology",
"Computer science",
"Engineering",
"Software",
"All topics",
"Sciences",
"Applied sciences",
"Media",
"Fundamental",
"Communication"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "localhost",
"text": "127.0.0.1",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A delimiter.",
"Separates the parts of an IP address (IPv4)."
],
"id": "en-`period`-mul-symbol-g2n6JPqu",
"links": [
[
"programming",
"programming#Noun"
],
[
"computing",
"computing#Noun"
],
[
"networking",
"networking#Noun"
],
[
"delimiter",
"delimiter#English"
],
[
"IP address",
"IP address#English"
],
[
"IPv4",
"IPv4#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(programming, computing, networking)",
"A delimiter.",
"Separates the parts of an IP address (IPv4)."
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"networking",
"physical-sciences",
"programming",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "mul",
"name": "Computing",
"orig": "mul:Computing",
"parents": [
"Technology",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "mul",
"name": "Networking",
"orig": "mul:Networking",
"parents": [
"Computing",
"Technology",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "mul",
"name": "Programming",
"orig": "mul:Programming",
"parents": [
"Computing",
"Software engineering",
"Technology",
"Computer science",
"Engineering",
"Software",
"All topics",
"Sciences",
"Applied sciences",
"Media",
"Fundamental",
"Communication"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "mul",
"name": "Regular expressions",
"orig": "mul:Regular expressions",
"parents": [
"Computing",
"Programming",
"Technology",
"Software engineering",
"All topics",
"Computer science",
"Engineering",
"Software",
"Fundamental",
"Sciences",
"Applied sciences",
"Media",
"Communication"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Matches any single character."
],
"id": "en-`period`-mul-symbol-wNkYSMiW",
"links": [
[
"programming",
"programming#Noun"
],
[
"computing",
"computing#Noun"
],
[
"networking",
"networking#Noun"
],
[
"regular expression",
"regular expression"
],
[
"character",
"character#English"
]
],
"qualifier": "regular expressions",
"raw_glosses": [
"(programming, computing, networking)",
"(regular expressions) Matches any single character."
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"networking",
"physical-sciences",
"programming",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "mul",
"name": "Twitter",
"orig": "mul:Twitter",
"parents": [
"Social media",
"World Wide Web",
"Internet",
"Mass media",
"Computing",
"Networking",
"Culture",
"Media",
"Technology",
"Society",
"Communication",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": ".@Tim needs to fix this problem ASAP",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Used to prefix a message to prevent it from being treated as a command."
],
"id": "en-`period`-mul-symbol-OAM6suhq",
"links": [
[
"Twitter",
"Twitter#Proper noun"
],
[
"command",
"command#English"
]
],
"qualifier": "chat rooms; Twitter; chat rooms; Twitter",
"raw_glosses": [
"(chat rooms, Twitter) Used to prefix a message to prevent it from being treated as a command."
]
}
],
"word": "`period`"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "⟨·⟩"
},
"expansion": "⟨·⟩",
"name": "nowrap"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "·"
},
"expansion": "⟨·⟩",
"name": "angbr"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "⟨.⟩"
},
"expansion": "⟨.⟩",
"name": "nowrap"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "."
},
"expansion": "⟨.⟩",
"name": "angbr"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "⟨˙⟩"
},
"expansion": "⟨˙⟩",
"name": "nowrap"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "˙"
},
"expansion": "⟨˙⟩",
"name": "angbr"
}
],
"etymology_text": "The periodos of Aristophanes of Byzantium, ca. 200 BCE. Originally there were three dots: ⟨·⟩ at mid height (the comma), ⟨.⟩ at the baseline (the colon), and ⟨˙⟩ at capital height (the periodos). When minuscule writing became common, it proved difficult to make a three-way height distinction, and only the periodos was retained, though it shifted to the baseline.",
"lang": "Translingual",
"lang_code": "mul",
"original_title": "Unsupported titles/`period`",
"pos": "character",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"A short signal, used to form Morse code text, together with - (a long signal)."
],
"id": "en-`period`-mul-character-ww-9kOLy",
"links": [
[
"-",
"-"
]
],
"tags": [
"letter"
]
},
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "Latin",
"word": "E"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Visual rendering of Morse code for E. (Latin)"
],
"id": "en-`period`-mul-character-tUejLhXw",
"links": [
[
"E",
"E#Translingual"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"letter",
"morse-code",
"visual-rendering"
]
},
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "Cyrillic",
"word": "Е"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Visual rendering of Morse code for Е. (Cyrillic)"
],
"id": "en-`period`-mul-character-4WCaow-B",
"links": [
[
"Е",
"Е#Translingual"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"letter",
"morse-code",
"visual-rendering"
]
}
],
"word": "`period`"
}
{
"categories": [
"IPA symbols",
"Pages with 8 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Pages with raw sortkeys",
"Translingual entries with incorrect language header",
"Translingual lemmas",
"Translingual letters",
"Translingual punctuation marks",
"Translingual symbols",
"Translingual terms spelled with `",
"Translingual terms with non-redundant manual script codes",
"Translingual terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "⟨·⟩"
},
"expansion": "⟨·⟩",
"name": "nowrap"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "·"
},
"expansion": "⟨·⟩",
"name": "angbr"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "⟨.⟩"
},
"expansion": "⟨.⟩",
"name": "nowrap"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "."
},
"expansion": "⟨.⟩",
"name": "angbr"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "⟨˙⟩"
},
"expansion": "⟨˙⟩",
"name": "nowrap"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "˙"
},
"expansion": "⟨˙⟩",
"name": "angbr"
}
],
"etymology_text": "The periodos of Aristophanes of Byzantium, ca. 200 BCE. Originally there were three dots: ⟨·⟩ at mid height (the comma), ⟨.⟩ at the baseline (the colon), and ⟨˙⟩ at capital height (the periodos). When minuscule writing became common, it proved difficult to make a three-way height distinction, and only the periodos was retained, though it shifted to the baseline.",
"forms": [
{
"form": ".",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "full stop",
"tags": [
"English",
"name"
]
},
{
"form": "period",
"tags": [
"English",
"name"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "mul",
"10": "",
"11": "or",
"12": "",
"2": "punctuation mark",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "English name",
"6": "full stop",
"7": "or",
"8": "period",
"9": "or",
"cat2": "",
"f1lang": "en",
"f1nolink": "",
"f2lang": "en",
"f2nolink": "",
"f3lang": "en",
"f3nolink": "",
"f4lang": "en",
"f4nolink": "",
"head": ".",
"head2": "",
"sc": "",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": ". (English name full stop or period)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"head": ".",
"name": "full stop",
"name2": "period"
},
"expansion": ". (English name full stop or period)",
"name": "mul-punctuation mark"
}
],
"lang": "Translingual",
"lang_code": "mul",
"original_title": "Unsupported titles/`period`",
"pos": "punct",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"Indicates the end of a sentence or passage of text."
],
"links": [
[
"sentence",
"sentence#English"
],
[
"passage",
"passage#English"
],
[
"text",
"text#English"
]
],
"raw_tags": [
"punctuation"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples",
"Translingual terms with collocations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "et cetera",
"text": "etc.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "Mr J. Smith",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Marks the end of an abbreviated word."
],
"links": [
[
"abbreviate",
"abbreviate#English"
]
],
"raw_tags": [
"punctuation"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "A. New York, B. London, C. Paris.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "a. New York, b. London, c. Paris.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "1. New York, 2. London, 3. Paris.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "I. New York, II. London, III. Paris.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Separates a number or letter from an item in a list."
],
"raw_tags": [
"punctuation"
],
"senseid": [
"mul:list separator"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples",
"Translingual informal terms"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "I. Don’t. Wanna. Hear.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Used between words to indicate staccato speech with emphasis laid on every word."
],
"links": [
[
"word",
"word#English"
],
[
"staccato",
"staccato#English"
],
[
"emphasis",
"emphasis#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal) Used between words to indicate staccato speech with emphasis laid on every word."
],
"raw_tags": [
"punctuation"
],
"tags": [
"informal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Translingual terms with collocations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "fourth",
"text": "4., IV.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Used at the end of numerals.",
"Indicates ordinal numerals."
],
"links": [
[
"numeral",
"numeral#English"
]
],
"raw_tags": [
"punctuation"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Translingual terms with collocations",
"Translingual terms with obsolete senses"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "one hundred",
"text": "100.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Used at the end of numerals.",
"Indicates cardinal numbers."
],
"links": [
[
"numeral",
"numeral#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"Used at the end of numerals.",
"(obsolete) Indicates cardinal numbers."
],
"raw_tags": [
"punctuation"
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"IPA symbols"
],
"glosses": [
"Indicates a syllable break."
],
"links": [
[
"syllable",
"syllable#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(IPA) Indicates a syllable break."
],
"raw_tags": [
"punctuation"
],
"tags": [
"IPA"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "10.1.4.7 How to keep your profit",
"text": "10.1.4.6 How to make a profit",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Used in numbered section or subsection titles, separates the sections and subsections."
],
"links": [
[
"section",
"section#English"
],
[
"subsection",
"subsection#English"
],
[
"title",
"title#English"
]
],
"raw_tags": [
"punctuation"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Map 1.5 Distribution of elephants in Africa",
"text": "Map 1.4 Distribution of tigers in Africa",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Used in numbered images, illustrations, maps, graphs, etc."
],
"links": [
[
"image",
"image#English"
],
[
"illustration",
"illustration#English"
],
[
"map",
"map#English"
],
[
"graph",
"graph#English"
]
],
"raw_tags": [
"punctuation"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Introduction..................................13\nChapter 1.....................................14\nChapter 2.....................................19",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Used repeatedly in the table of contents of a book to separate the name of a chapter, section, image, etc., from the page number where it is found."
],
"links": [
[
"table of contents",
"table of contents#English"
],
[
"book",
"book#English"
]
],
"raw_tags": [
"punctuation"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples",
"mul:Australian rules football"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Brisbane Lions 20.14 (134) defeated Collingwood 12.12 (84)",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "Brisbane Lions 20.14.134 defeated Collingwood 12.12.84",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Used to separate a team’s number of goals from its number of behinds, and sometimes from its total score."
],
"links": [
[
"Australian rules football",
"Australian rules football"
]
],
"qualifier": "Australian rules football",
"raw_glosses": [
"(Australian rules football) Used to separate a team’s number of goals from its number of behinds, and sometimes from its total score."
],
"raw_tags": [
"punctuation"
]
}
],
"word": "`period`"
}
{
"categories": [
"IPA symbols",
"Pages with 8 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Pages with raw sortkeys",
"Translingual entries with incorrect language header",
"Translingual lemmas",
"Translingual letters",
"Translingual punctuation marks",
"Translingual symbols",
"Translingual terms spelled with `",
"Translingual terms with non-redundant manual script codes",
"Translingual terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "⟨·⟩"
},
"expansion": "⟨·⟩",
"name": "nowrap"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "·"
},
"expansion": "⟨·⟩",
"name": "angbr"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "⟨.⟩"
},
"expansion": "⟨.⟩",
"name": "nowrap"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "."
},
"expansion": "⟨.⟩",
"name": "angbr"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "⟨˙⟩"
},
"expansion": "⟨˙⟩",
"name": "nowrap"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "˙"
},
"expansion": "⟨˙⟩",
"name": "angbr"
}
],
"etymology_text": "The periodos of Aristophanes of Byzantium, ca. 200 BCE. Originally there were three dots: ⟨·⟩ at mid height (the comma), ⟨.⟩ at the baseline (the colon), and ⟨˙⟩ at capital height (the periodos). When minuscule writing became common, it proved difficult to make a three-way height distinction, and only the periodos was retained, though it shifted to the baseline.",
"forms": [
{
"form": ".",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "mul",
"2": "symbol",
"head": "."
},
"expansion": ".",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Translingual",
"lang_code": "mul",
"original_title": "Unsupported titles/`period`",
"pos": "symbol",
"related": [
{
"alt": "'; ’",
"word": "apostrophe"
},
{
"word": "curly brackets"
},
{
"alt": "{ }",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"word": "brace"
},
{
"word": "square bracket"
},
{
"alt": "[ ]",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"word": "bracket"
},
{
"alt": ":",
"word": "colon"
},
{
"alt": ",",
"word": "comma"
},
{
"alt": "‒; –; —; ―",
"word": "dash"
},
{
"alt": "…",
"word": "ellipsis"
},
{
"alt": "!",
"word": "exclamation mark"
},
{
"alt": "⁄",
"word": "fraction slash"
},
{
"alt": "« »; ‹ ›",
"word": "guillemet"
},
{
"alt": "-; ‐",
"word": "hyphen"
},
{
"alt": "·",
"word": "interpunct"
},
{
"alt": "‽",
"tags": [
"rare"
],
"word": "interrobang"
},
{
"word": "bracket"
},
{
"word": "parentheses (US"
},
{
"alt": "( )",
"word": "Canada)"
},
{
"word": "full stop"
},
{
"alt": ".",
"tags": [
"Canada",
"US"
],
"word": "period"
},
{
"alt": "?",
"word": "question mark"
},
{
"alt": "‘ ’ ‚; „",
"tags": [
"formal"
],
"word": "quotation marks"
},
{
"alt": "\"; '",
"tags": [
"informal"
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"natural-sciences"
],
"word": "quotation marks"
},
{
"alt": ";",
"word": "semicolon"
},
{
"word": "slash"
},
{
"alt": "/",
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"word": "stroke"
},
{
"alt": "] [",
"word": "space"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"A separator used with numbers.",
"In some counting systems, sets off the decimal or fractional part of a number."
],
"links": [
[
"separator",
"separator#English"
],
[
"number",
"number#English"
],
[
"sets off",
"set off#English"
],
[
"decimal",
"decimal#English"
],
[
"fractional",
"fractional#English"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"english": "in other counting systems",
"word": "·"
},
{
"word": ","
},
{
"word": "’"
}
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A separator used with numbers.",
"In some counting systems, separates groups of three consecutive digits."
],
"links": [
[
"separator",
"separator#English"
],
[
"number",
"number#English"
],
[
"separate",
"separate#English"
],
[
"group",
"group#English"
],
[
"consecutive",
"consecutive#English"
],
[
"digit",
"digit#English"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"english": "in other counting systems",
"word": "] ["
},
{
"word": ","
},
{
"word": "٬"
},
{
"word": "’"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Translingual terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1986, D. P. Poppi, “Nitrogen transactions in the digestive tract of lambs exposed to the intestinal parasite, Trichostrongylus colubriformis”, in British Journal of Nutrition, volume 55, number 3 (in English), page 593:",
"text": "Basically 300 μCi ⁵¹CrCl₃ contained in 10 ml sterile saline was injected into the jugular vein and the radioactivity and protein concentration of the plasma determined in samples of blood withdrawn by vacupuncture at 09.00 hours each morning for the following 5 d.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2004, Steve Moxon, “Storyline: Bev Gets Knotted”, in The Great Immigration Scandal (in English), Imprint Academic, →ISBN, page 195:",
"text": "At 12.30 in the afternoon – half-an-hour earlier and she could have been accused of perpetrating an April Fool’s swansong deception – Hughes stood up in the Commons, doughnutted by as ugly a bunch of sad or scowling Blair babes as you could gather.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2005 December 16, “Online Style Guide - T”, in Times Online (in English), archived from the original on 2007-02-13:",
"text": "Use a point in expressing continental time - 01.55, 14.00 etc.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Steven Crook, Taiwan (Bradt Guides), 2nd edition (in English), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 328:",
"text": "Three ferries per day sail from Nangan to Xiju’s Qingfan Port and Dongju’s Mengao Harbour (departs 🕘︎ 07.00, 11.00 & 14.30; takes 50mins; NTD200 one-way).",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A separator used with numbers.",
"Separates hours, minutes, and seconds when reporting 24-hour time."
],
"links": [
[
"separator",
"separator#English"
],
[
"number",
"number#English"
],
[
"hour",
"hour#English"
],
[
"minute",
"minute#English"
],
[
"second",
"second#English"
],
[
"time",
"time#English"
]
],
"senseid": [
"mul:time"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": ":"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Translingual terms with usage examples",
"mul:Computing",
"mul:Networking",
"mul:Programming"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "the ‘x’ property of the ‘point’ variable",
"text": "point.x",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"In various programming languages, the structure access operator."
],
"links": [
[
"programming",
"programming#Noun"
],
[
"computing",
"computing#Noun"
],
[
"networking",
"networking#Noun"
],
[
"programming language",
"programming language#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(programming, computing, networking)",
"In various programming languages, the structure access operator."
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"networking",
"physical-sciences",
"programming",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Translingual terms with usage examples",
"mul:Computing",
"mul:Networking",
"mul:Programming"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "echo 'I am currently ' . myAge(1981) . ' old.';",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"In various programming languages, the string concatenation operator."
],
"links": [
[
"programming",
"programming#Noun"
],
[
"computing",
"computing#Noun"
],
[
"networking",
"networking#Noun"
],
[
"string",
"string#English"
],
[
"concatenation",
"concatenation#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(programming, computing, networking)",
"In various programming languages, the string concatenation operator."
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"networking",
"physical-sciences",
"programming",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Translingual terms with usage examples",
"mul:Computing",
"mul:Networking",
"mul:Programming"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "list the contents of the current directory",
"text": "ls .",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"In various operating systems, the current directory."
],
"links": [
[
"programming",
"programming#Noun"
],
[
"computing",
"computing#Noun"
],
[
"networking",
"networking#Noun"
],
[
"directory",
"directory#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(programming, computing, networking)",
"In various operating systems, the current directory."
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"networking",
"physical-sciences",
"programming",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Translingual terms with usage examples",
"mul:Computing",
"mul:Networking",
"mul:Programming"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "div.quotedtext {font-style: italic}",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The class selector in CSS, which intends to format a class of an element. (A class can appear freely one or more times in a page, as opposed to the ID selector: #)."
],
"links": [
[
"programming",
"programming#Noun"
],
[
"computing",
"computing#Noun"
],
[
"networking",
"networking#Noun"
],
[
"class",
"class#English"
],
[
"CSS",
"CSS#English"
],
[
"format",
"format#English"
],
[
"element",
"element#English"
],
[
"ID",
"ID#English"
],
[
"#",
"Unsupported titles/`num`#Translingual"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(programming, computing, networking)",
"The class selector in CSS, which intends to format a class of an element. (A class can appear freely one or more times in a page, as opposed to the ID selector: #)."
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"networking",
"physical-sciences",
"programming",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Translingual terms with usage examples",
"mul:Computing",
"mul:Networking",
"mul:Programming"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "the file with the base name ‘document’ and the extension ‘txt’",
"text": "document.txt",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A delimiter.",
"Separates a file name from its extension."
],
"links": [
[
"programming",
"programming#Noun"
],
[
"computing",
"computing#Noun"
],
[
"networking",
"networking#Noun"
],
[
"delimiter",
"delimiter#English"
],
[
"file",
"file#English"
],
[
"extension",
"extension#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(programming, computing, networking)",
"A delimiter.",
"Separates a file name from its extension."
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"networking",
"physical-sciences",
"programming",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Translingual terms with usage examples",
"mul:Computing",
"mul:Networking",
"mul:Programming"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "the Internet domain name with components ‘en’, ‘wiktionary’, and ‘org’",
"text": "en.wiktionary.org",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A delimiter.",
"Separates the parts of the domain name of a website (including the subdomain and the top-level domain)."
],
"links": [
[
"programming",
"programming#Noun"
],
[
"computing",
"computing#Noun"
],
[
"networking",
"networking#Noun"
],
[
"delimiter",
"delimiter#English"
],
[
"domain",
"domain#English"
],
[
"website",
"website#English"
],
[
"subdomain",
"subdomain#English"
],
[
"top-level domain",
"top-level domain#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(programming, computing, networking)",
"A delimiter.",
"Separates the parts of the domain name of a website (including the subdomain and the top-level domain)."
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"networking",
"physical-sciences",
"programming",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples",
"mul:Computing",
"mul:Networking",
"mul:Programming"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "version 1.2.16",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A delimiter.",
"Separates the parts of a version number."
],
"links": [
[
"programming",
"programming#Noun"
],
[
"computing",
"computing#Noun"
],
[
"networking",
"networking#Noun"
],
[
"delimiter",
"delimiter#English"
],
[
"version number",
"version number#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(programming, computing, networking)",
"A delimiter.",
"Separates the parts of a version number."
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"networking",
"physical-sciences",
"programming",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Translingual terms with usage examples",
"mul:Computing",
"mul:Networking",
"mul:Programming"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "localhost",
"text": "127.0.0.1",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A delimiter.",
"Separates the parts of an IP address (IPv4)."
],
"links": [
[
"programming",
"programming#Noun"
],
[
"computing",
"computing#Noun"
],
[
"networking",
"networking#Noun"
],
[
"delimiter",
"delimiter#English"
],
[
"IP address",
"IP address#English"
],
[
"IPv4",
"IPv4#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(programming, computing, networking)",
"A delimiter.",
"Separates the parts of an IP address (IPv4)."
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"networking",
"physical-sciences",
"programming",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"mul:Computing",
"mul:Networking",
"mul:Programming",
"mul:Regular expressions"
],
"glosses": [
"Matches any single character."
],
"links": [
[
"programming",
"programming#Noun"
],
[
"computing",
"computing#Noun"
],
[
"networking",
"networking#Noun"
],
[
"regular expression",
"regular expression"
],
[
"character",
"character#English"
]
],
"qualifier": "regular expressions",
"raw_glosses": [
"(programming, computing, networking)",
"(regular expressions) Matches any single character."
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"networking",
"physical-sciences",
"programming",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples",
"mul:Twitter"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": ".@Tim needs to fix this problem ASAP",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Used to prefix a message to prevent it from being treated as a command."
],
"links": [
[
"Twitter",
"Twitter#Proper noun"
],
[
"command",
"command#English"
]
],
"qualifier": "chat rooms; Twitter; chat rooms; Twitter",
"raw_glosses": [
"(chat rooms, Twitter) Used to prefix a message to prevent it from being treated as a command."
]
}
],
"word": "`period`"
}
{
"categories": [
"IPA symbols",
"Pages with 8 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Pages with raw sortkeys",
"Translingual entries with incorrect language header",
"Translingual lemmas",
"Translingual letters",
"Translingual punctuation marks",
"Translingual symbols",
"Translingual terms spelled with `",
"Translingual terms with non-redundant manual script codes",
"Translingual terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "⟨·⟩"
},
"expansion": "⟨·⟩",
"name": "nowrap"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "·"
},
"expansion": "⟨·⟩",
"name": "angbr"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "⟨.⟩"
},
"expansion": "⟨.⟩",
"name": "nowrap"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "."
},
"expansion": "⟨.⟩",
"name": "angbr"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "⟨˙⟩"
},
"expansion": "⟨˙⟩",
"name": "nowrap"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "˙"
},
"expansion": "⟨˙⟩",
"name": "angbr"
}
],
"etymology_text": "The periodos of Aristophanes of Byzantium, ca. 200 BCE. Originally there were three dots: ⟨·⟩ at mid height (the comma), ⟨.⟩ at the baseline (the colon), and ⟨˙⟩ at capital height (the periodos). When minuscule writing became common, it proved difficult to make a three-way height distinction, and only the periodos was retained, though it shifted to the baseline.",
"lang": "Translingual",
"lang_code": "mul",
"original_title": "Unsupported titles/`period`",
"pos": "character",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"A short signal, used to form Morse code text, together with - (a long signal)."
],
"links": [
[
"-",
"-"
]
],
"tags": [
"letter"
]
},
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "Latin",
"word": "E"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Visual rendering of Morse code for E. (Latin)"
],
"links": [
[
"E",
"E#Translingual"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"letter",
"morse-code",
"visual-rendering"
]
},
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "Cyrillic",
"word": "Е"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Visual rendering of Morse code for Е. (Cyrillic)"
],
"links": [
[
"Е",
"Е#Translingual"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"letter",
"morse-code",
"visual-rendering"
]
}
],
"word": "`period`"
}
Download raw JSONL data for `period` meaning in Translingual (21.3kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Translingual dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (ee63ee9 and 4230888). 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.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.