semicolon
semicolon
Definition
semi·colon (sem′i kō′lən)
noun
a mark of punctuation (;) indicating a degree of separation greater than that marked by the comma and less than that marked by the period: used chiefly to separate units that contain elements separated by commas, and to separate closely related coordinate clauses
semicolon
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- omit: In particular, be very careful not to omit the final semicolon.
- terminate: Adding a terminating semicolon ( ; ) causes the contents of the string to be written to the file with nothing appended.
- put: Put a semicolon only after the last rule with a given left-hand side and put the semicolon on a separate line.
- add: An expression can be promoted to a statement by adding a semicolon.
- use: Make sure to use semicolons where you would in a normal program.
- include: The end of the program follows line 0017 of the listing, which includes a semicolon to terminate the procedure.
Converse of subject
- terminate: Of course each statement must be terminated by a semicolon.
- separate: Notice in the example below how the listed sources are separated by a semicolon.
- precede: Mapping programs normally do not display sites whose names are preceded by a semicolon.
Adjective modifier
- final: Note that the final semicolon, normally required by GAP, is optional in a command string for a message.
- missing: This problem is solved by simply typing the missing semicolon on the next line of input.
- double: And you have learned that a double semicolon prevents the result of a statement from being printed.
- argumentative: No later letters in this sample give occasion for the use of what we might call the " argumentative semicolon.
- superfluous: There are two superfluous semicolons and the logic in the map could be shortened too, as well as some other bits.
- single: Use a single semicolon to the right of the code to explain a particular line with a short comment.
Modifies a noun
- character: The fields are delimited within the name by a semicolon character.
Preposition: in
- front: Display of isoschizomers: The public file has a semicolon in front of all but one member of each family of isoschizomers.
Preposition: as
- separator: Use of the semicolon as alternative separator is supported by PHP; see also this note at the W3C.
semicolon Quotes
It is not enough to be pause, to be hole to be void, to be silent to be semicolon, to be semicolony; 150
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