Comma vs Dot - What's the difference?
comma | dot |
Punctuation]] mark ([[, ) (usually indicating a pause between parts of a sentence or between elements in a list).
(by extension) A diacritical mark used below certain letters in Romanian.
A European and North American butterfly, , of the family Nymphalidae.
(music) a difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
(genetics) A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
In Ancient Greek rhetoric a comma (?????) is a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity comma was defined as a combination of words that has no more than eight syllables. This term is later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.
A small spot.
(grammar) A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period.
A diacritical mark comprised of a small opaque circle above or below any of various letters of the Latin script. Examples include: ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, etc.
(mathematics) A symbol used for separating the fractional part of a decimal number from the whole part, for indicating multiplication or a scalar product, or for various other purposes.
One of the two symbols used in Morse code.
(obsolete) A lump or clot.
Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.
(cricket, informal) A dot ball.
To cover with small spots (of some liquid).
To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to.
To mark by means of dots or small spots.
To mark or diversify with small detached objects.
Dot product of the previous vector and the following vector.
(US, Louisiana) A dowry.
* 1919 , , (The Moon and Sixpence) ,
* 1927 , Anna Bowman Dodd, Talleyrand: the Training of a Statesman :
As nouns the difference between comma and dot
is that comma is punctuation mark (,) (usually indicating a pause between parts of a sentence or between elements in a list) while dot is a small spot.As a verb dot is
to cover with small spots (of some liquid).As a preposition dot is
dot product of the previous vector and the following vector.As a proper noun Dot is
diminutive of the female given name Dorothy.As an acronym DOT is
department of Transportation.comma
English
Noun
(en-noun)Derived terms
(punctuation mark) * commaless * Harvard comma * inverted comma * Oxford comma * serial commaSee also
(punctuation)External links
* * English nouns with irregular plurals ----dot
English
(wikipedia dot)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- a dot of colour
- a dot of a child
Synonyms
* (small spot) speck, spot * (at the end of a sentence or abbreviation) full stop (British), period (US), point * (as a diacritic) tittle (over the letters i and j) * (sense) decimal point * (in Morse code) ditDerived terms
(terms derived from dot) * centered dot, centred dot * connect the dots * dotcom * dot matrix * dot matrix printer * dot product * dottel * dottle * dotty * join the dots * middle dot * off one's dot * on the dot * polka dot * the year dotVerb
(dott)- His jacket was dotted with splashes of paint.
- Dot your i''s and cross your ''t s.
- to dot a line
- to dot a landscape with cottages
Derived terms
* dot do dot * dot the i's and cross the t'sPreposition
(English prepositions)- The work is equal to F dot ?x.
Coordinate terms
* *Etymology 2
From (etyl) dot.Alternative forms
* doteNoun
(en noun)- "Have you the pictures still?" I asked.
- "Yes; I am keeping them till my daughter is of marriageable age, and then I shall sell them. They will be her dot ."
- As a bride, Madame de Talleyrand had brought a small dot of fifteen thousand francs to the family fund.