Crossword-Solution: SEMICOLON
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Semicolon | n. | The punctuation mark [;] indicating a separation between parts or members of a sentence more distinct than that marked by a comma. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “SEMICOLON”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Feature of some long sentences | 1 answer |
| Wink without batting an eye? | 1 answer |
| Punctuation that contains a dot and a comma | 1 answer |
| Measure of half a large intestine? | 1 answer |
| Mark of a separation | 1 answer |
| Mark of a long sentence, perhaps | 1 answer |
| Long-sentence punctuation | 1 answer |
| It may be part of a long sentence | 1 answer |
| It makes up the eyes in a winking emoticon | 1 answer |
| Cause of a pause | 1 answer |
| Pause indicator | 2 answers |
| Sentence divider | 3 answers |
| Clause connector | 3 answers |
| Pause cause | 4 answers |
| CAUSE FOR PAUSE | 10 answers |
| CAUSE FOR A PAUSE | 11 answers |
| punctuation mark | 15 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZAECEM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SEMICOLON (5)
Here is a classic C quine: char*f="char*f=%c%s%c;main(){printf(f,34,f,34,10);}%c"; main(){printf(f,34,f,34,10);} For excruciatingly exact quinishness, remove the line break after the second semicolon.
The following is a brave attempt at a solution, but it failed to liquify: When they are going to say some prose or poetry before they say the poetry or prose they must put a semicolon just after the introduction of the prose or poetry.
The changes made in drafting the copy will be seen at once, the principal one being that Key started to write "They have washed out in blood their foul footsteps' pollution," and changed it for "Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution." In the second stanza, also, the dash after "'T is the star-spangled banner" makes the change more abrupt, the line more spirited, and the burst of feeling more intense, than the usual semicolon.
But a critic who examines them carefully will find that they are not swollen by parenthetical matter, that their structure is scarcely ever intricate, that they are formed merely by accumulation, and that, by the simple process of now and then leaving out a conjunction, and now and then substituting a full stop for a semicolon, they might, without any alteration in the order of the words, be broken up into very short periods with no sacrifice except that of euphony.
Although I have left the quotation as Pater renders it, the semicolon should be a comma, as in the Mullach collection Pater used--otherwise the first half of the sentence would be a question, and that is not how Pater himself translates the verse.
Quotes with SEMICOLON (3)
God is not an exclamation point. He is, at his best, a semicolon, connecting people, and generating what Aldous Huxley called “human grace.” Somewhere along the way, we’ve lost sight of this.
I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after 'now.
Not long ago, I advertised for perverse rules of grammar, along the lines of "Remember to never split an infinitive" and "The passive voice should never be used." The notion of making a mistake while laying down rules ("Thimk," "We Never Make Misteaks") is highly unoriginal, and it turns out that English teachers have been circulating lists of fumblerules for years. As owner of the world's largest collection, and with thanks to scores of readers, let me pass along a bunch of …
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (1972–2024).