Exact Match:
- punctuation
- the use of certain marks to clarify meaning of written material by grouping words grammatically into sentences and clauses and phrases
- the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases
- something that makes repeated and regular interruptions or divisions
Synonyms:
- alphabet,
- ampersand,
- angle brackets,
- apostrophe,
- braces,
- colon,
- comma,
- dash,
- decimal point,
- diacritical mark,
- diagonal,
- dot,
- ellipsis,
- end stop,
- exclamation mark,
- full stop,
- hyphen,
- letter,
- parens,
- parentheses,
- period,
- point,
- punctuation marks,
- question mark,
- quotation marks,
- quotes,
- reference,
- reference mark,
- semicolon,
- single quotes,
- solidus,
- stop,
- tittle,
- virgule,
- writing system,
- written character
Related Words:
- ace,
- atom,
- birthmark,
- bit,
- blaze,
- blemish,
- blotch,
- brand,
- caste mark,
- check,
- checkmark,
- cicatrix,
- crumb,
- cut,
- dab,
- dapple,
- diacritical mark,
- discoloration,
- dole,
- dot,
- dram,
- dribble,
- driblet,
- drop,
- droplet,
- dwarf,
- earmark,
- end stop,
- engraving,
- farthing,
- fleck,
- flick,
- flyspeck,
- fragment,
- freckle,
- gash,
- gnat,
- gobbet,
- grain,
- granule,
- graving,
- groat,
- hack,
- hair,
- handful,
- iota,
- jot,
- lentigo,
- little,
- little bit,
- lota,
- macula,
- mark,
- marking,
- microbe,
- microorganism,
- midge,
- minim,
- minimum,
- minutia,
- minutiae,
- mite,
- modicum,
- mole,
- molecule,
- mote,
- mottle,
- nevus,
- nick,
- notch,
- nutshell,
- ounce,
- particle,
- patch,
- pebble,
- pinch,
- pinhead,
- pinpoint,
- pittance,
- point,
- polka dot,
- prick,
- punctuation,
- punctuation marks,
- puncture,
- reference,
- reference mark,
- scar,
- scarification,
- score,
- scotch,
- scrap,
- scratch,
- scratching,
- scruple,
- smidgen,
- smitch,
- snip,
- snippet,
- speck,
- speckle,
- splash,
- splotch,
- spoonful,
- spot,
- stain,
- stigma,
- stop,
- strawberry mark,
- tattoo,
- tattoo mark,
- thimbleful,
- tick,
- tiny bit,
- trifling amount,
- trivia,
- vanishing point,
- watermark,
- whit
- reference
collapse - the act of referring or consulting; "reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer"
- the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to; "the extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing only Demos and Phobos"
- the relation between a word or phrase and the object or idea it refers to; "he argued that reference is a consequence of conditioned reflexes"
- a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to; "he carried an armful of references back to his desk"; "he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation"
- refer to; "he referenced his colleagues' work" related words >
- acknowledgment,
- advocacy,
- advocating,
- advocation,
- affective meaning,
- allusion,
- angle,
- appeal to,
- applicability,
- application,
- appositeness,
- aspect,
- bearing,
- by-line,
- case,
- certificate of character,
- certification,
- character,
- character reference,
- citation,
- coloring,
- concern,
- concernment,
- confession,
- configuration,
- connection,
- connotation,
- consequence,
- credential,
- credentials,
- credit line,
- cross reference,
- cross-refer,
- cross-reference,
- demonstration,
- denotation,
- diacritical mark,
- direct attention to,
- direction,
- drift,
- effect,
- eidolon,
- end stop,
- endorsement,
- essence,
- example,
- exemplification,
- extension,
- facet,
- fashion,
- feature,
- figure,
- force,
- form,
- germaneness,
- gestalt,
- gist,
- grammatical meaning,
- guise,
- hint,
- idea,
- illustration,
- image,
- imago,
- impact,
- implication,
- import,
- impression,
- indication,
- innuendo,
- insinuation,
- instance,
- intension,
- interest,
- intimation,
- invoke,
- item,
- letter of introduction,
- lexical meaning,
- light,
- likeness,
- lineaments,
- literal meaning,
- look,
- make a cross-reference,
- make reference to,
- manner,
- materiality,
- meaning,
- mention,
- naming,
- notation,
- note,
- notification,
- overtone,
- particular,
- patronage,
- pertinence,
- phase,
- phasis,
- pith,
- point,
- practical consequence,
- punctuation,
- punctuation marks,
- purport,
- quotation,
- range of meaning,
- real meaning,
- recommend,
- recommendation,
- refer to,
- reference mark,
- referent,
- referral,
- regard,
- relatedness,
- relation,
- relevance,
- remark,
- respect,
- scope,
- seeming,
- semantic cluster,
- semantic field,
- semblance,
- sense,
- shape,
- side,
- signature,
- significance,
- signification,
- significatum,
- signifie,
- simulacrum,
- slant,
- span of meaning,
- specification,
- spirit,
- stop,
- structural meaning,
- style,
- substance,
- sum,
- sum and substance,
- symbolic meaning,
- tenor,
- testimonial,
- tittle,
- total effect,
- totality of associations,
- trademark,
- transferred meaning,
- tribute,
- twist,
- unadorned meaning,
- undertone,
- value,
- view,
- viewpoint,
- voucher,
- wise
- Arabic,
- Armenian,
- Assyrian,
- Avestan,
- Babylonian,
- Berber,
- Chalcidian,
- Cherokee,
- Coptic,
- Cretan,
- Cyrillic,
- Elamitic,
- Etruscan,
- Georgian,
- Gothic,
- Greek,
- Hebrew,
- IPA,
- ITA,
- Iberian,
- Initial Teaching Alphabet,
- International Phonetic Alphabet,
- Irish,
- Kalmuck,
- Korean,
- Latin,
- Lemnian,
- Libyan,
- Linear A,
- Linear B,
- Lycian,
- Lydian,
- Manchu,
- Mayan,
- Minoan,
- Mitannic,
- Mongolian,
- Nubian,
- Oscan,
- Pahlavi,
- Permian,
- Persian,
- Phoenician,
- Phrygian,
- Sanskrit,
- Scandinavian,
- Semitic,
- Sinaitic,
- Sogdian,
- Sumerian,
- Szeklian,
- Tuareg,
- Uighur,
- Umbrian,
- Vietnamese,
- alphabet,
- alphabetics,
- futhark,
- graphemics,
- hiragana,
- kana,
- kanji,
- katakana,
- letter,
- letters,
- ogham,
- paleography,
- punctuation,
- runic,
- runic alphabet,
- script,
- syllabary,
- written character
- Beach-la-mar,
- Kitchen Kaffir,
- Oregon Jargon,
- Sabir,
- abuse of terms,
- anacoluthon,
- auxiliary language,
- babble,
- babblement,
- bad grammar,
- bavardage,
- bibble-babble,
- blab,
- blabber,
- blah-blah,
- blather,
- blether,
- blethers,
- broken speech,
- cackle,
- caquet,
- caqueterie,
- chat,
- chatter,
- chitter-chatter,
- clack,
- clatter,
- comma fault,
- corruption of speech,
- creole,
- creole language,
- creolized language,
- dangling modifier,
- faulty comparison,
- faulty coordination,
- faulty grammar,
- faulty punctuation,
- faulty reference,
- faulty subordination,
- faulty syntax,
- gab,
- gabble,
- gas,
- gibber,
- gibble-gabble,
- gossip,
- guff,
- hot air,
- idle talk,
- interlanguage,
- jabber,
- jargon,
- koine,
- lack of concord,
- lack of parallelism,
- mere talk,
- natter,
- nonsense talk,
- palaver,
- pidgin,
- pidgin English,
- prate,
- prating,
- prattle,
- prittle-prattle,
- sentence fragment,
- shift of structure,
- shift of tense,
- tittle-tattle,
- trade language,
- twaddle,
- twattle,
- ungrammaticalness,
- yak,
- yakkety-yak
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