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Look up: Comma

  1. comma
    Plural form: commas. A punctuation mark used to separate items in a list, or to show the extra information in a sentence.
    Example: George, who really likes fishing, went shopping and bought a tent, a fishing rod and a new worm bucket.
    Found on http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/glossary

  2. comma
    [n] - a punctuation mark (,) used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence 2. [n] - anglewing butterfly with a comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Comma
    Caterpillar species. Latin name: Polygonia c-album Food: Hop, nettles and currant bushes Description: Greyish, marked with orange-brown, spiny. Southern England as far north as Yorkshire and Wales.
    Found on http://www.whatsthiscaterpillar.co.uk

  4. Comma
    this cuts off one clause from another. It separates items on a list.. As a pair, it acts as parenthesis, separating added information, asides, non essential extras etc. from the main sentence. The placement of a comma can alter the emphasis placed on a word or phrase.
    Found on http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~media/hrc_sty

  5. comma
    (character) ',' ASCII character 44. Common names: ITU-T: comma. Rare: ITU-T: cedilla; INTERCAL: tail. In the C programming language, ',' is an operator which evaluates its first argument (which presumably has side-effects) and then returns the value of its second argument. This is useful in 'for' statements and macros. (1995-03-10)
    Found on http://foldoc.org/

  6. Comma
    (project) COMputable MAthematics. An ESPRIT project at KU Nijmegen. (1994-11-30)
    Found on

  7. comma
    one of the special characters in a standard character set,such as ASCII or EBCDIC Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  8. Comma
    Com'ma noun [ Latin comma part of a sentence, comma, Greek ... clause, from ... to cut off. Confer Capon .] 1. A character or point [ ,] marking the smallest divisions of a sentence, written or printed. 2. (Mus.) A small interval (the difference between a major and minor half step), seldom used except by tuners. Comma bacillus (Physiol.) , a ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/115

  9. comma
    comma butterfly noun anglewing butterfly with a comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  10. comma
    noun a punctuation mark (,) used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  11. Comma
    `Comma` may refer to: * Comma (punctuation), a punctuation mark (,) * Comma (music), a kind of interval in music theory * Comma (butterfly), a species of butterfly * Comma (rhetoric), a short clause in Greek rhetoric * Comma operator, an operator in C and other related programming languages
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma

  12. Comma
    • (n.) A small interval (the difference between a major and minor half step), seldom used except by tuners. • (n.) A character or point [,] marking the smallest divisions of a sentence, written or printed.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  13. comma
    (from the article `punctuation`) ...complete sentences that are closely connected in sense; in a long or complicated sentence, it may precede a coordinate conjunction (such as or, ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/115

  14. comma
    in music, slight difference in frequency (and therefore pitch) occurring when a note of a scale, say E in the scale of C, is derived according to ... [1 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/115

  15. comma
    comma: see punctuation.
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0


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