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Comma vs Semi - What's the difference?

comma | semi |

As nouns the difference between comma and semi

is that comma is punctuation]] mark ([[, ) (usually indicating a pause between parts of a sentence or between elements in a list) while semi is (uk|australia|canada) a semi-detached house.

comma

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • 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.

    • Derived terms

    (punctuation mark) * commaless * Harvard comma * inverted comma * Oxford comma * serial comma

    See also

    (punctuation)

    External links

    * * English nouns with irregular plurals ----

    semi

    English

    (wikipedia semi)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, Australia, Canada) A semi-detached house.
  • * 2008 , Elliott Placks, quoted in Helen Isbister, Morris Bryant, Property , Career FAQs, Australia, page 40,
    • I?m selling two side-by-side semis that are currently under construction, a waterfront apartment and a house in Rose Bay.
  • * 2008 , Barry Goodchild, Homes, Cities and Neighbourhoods: Planning and the Residential Landscapes of Modern Britain , page 52,
    • The smaller semis of the 1920s and 1930s were closely related to the three bedroom pre-1919 narrow fronted terraces, at least to the larger pre-1919 terraces.
  • A semitrailer; a tractor-trailer; an eighteen-wheeler.
  • * 2011 , Eamonn Duff, Schapelle Corby: The Untold Story Behind Her Ill-Fated Drug Run , Allen & Unwin, Australia, unnumbered page,
    • All night we couldn?t hear each other speak because of the sound of semis changing gear to get over the hill.
  • A semifinal.
  • (slang) A partial erection.
  • * 2010 , Mickey Erlach, Video Boys (page 158)
    • The twink got a semi just from that look.

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