semicolon

Noun

Meaning

The punctuation mark [;] indicating a separation between parts or members of a sentence more distinct than that marked by a comma.

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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon. Alan Perlis

Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath. Lewis Thomas

That should probably be written: no!@#$%^&*:@! semicolon. Larry Wall

Whoever decided to use the semicolon to end something should just be taken out and have his colon semified. (At least COBOL and SQL managed to use a period.) Erik Naggum

What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world. Are they being alarmist? Lynne Truss

I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing. Henry Miller

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