As nouns the difference between hyphen and comma
is that hyphen is symbol "", typically used to join two or more words to form a compound term, or to indicate that a word has been split at the end of a line while comma is punctuation]] mark ([[, ) (usually indicating a pause between parts of a sentence or between elements in a list).
As a verb hyphen
is (dated) to separate or punctuate with a hyphen; to hyphenate.
As a proper noun hyphen
is (colloquial) (used to refer to a person with a hyphenated name).
As a conjunction hyphen
is (used to emphasize the coordinating function usually indicated by the punctuation "-").
hyphen
Noun
(
en noun)
Symbol "", typically used to join two or more words to form a compound term, or to indicate that a word has been split at the end of a line.
(figuratively) Something that links two more consequential things.
Usage notes
Because the original symbol "-" (technically the hyphen-minus) covered usages aside from hyphenation there have been additional subsequent symbols created for hyphenation needs. They include the " (non-breaking hyphen) and the non-visible soft hyphen.
Related terms
* hyphenate
* hyphenated
* hyphenation
* hyphenator
Verb
(
en verb)
(dated) To separate or punctuate with a hyphen; to hyphenate.
Proper noun
(
en proper noun)
(colloquial) (Used to refer to a person with a hyphenated name)
Conjunction
(
English Conjunctions)
(Used to emphasize the coordinating function usually indicated by the punctuation "-").
*
*
*
*
*
Synonyms
* (used as coordinator) slash, cum
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
