English-Thai Dictionary

punctuation

N การ ใช้ เครื่องหมายวรรคตอน  kan-chai-krueng-mai-wak-ton

 

punctuation

N เครื่องหมายวรรคตอน  krueng-mai-wak-ton

 

punctuation mark

N เครื่องหมายวรรคตอน  krueng-mai-wak-ton

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PUNCTUATION

n.In grammar, the act or art of pointing a writing or discourse, or the act or art of marking with points the divisions of a discourse into sentences and clauses or members of a sentence. Punctuation is performed by four points, the period (.); the colon (:); the semicolon (;); and the comma (,). The ancients were unacquainted with punctuation; they wrote without any distinction of members, period or words.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PUNCTUATION

Punc `tu *a "tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. ponctuation. ] (Gram. )

 

Defn: The act or art of punctuating or pointing a writing or discourse; the art or mode of dividing literary composition into sentences, and members of a sentence, by means of points, so as to elucidate the author's meaning.

 

Note: Punctuation, as the term is usually understood, is chiefly performed with four points: the period [.], the colon [:], the semicolon [;], and the comma [,]. Other points used in writing and printing, partly rhetorical and partly grammatical, are the note of interrogation [], the note of exclamation [!], the parentheses [()], the dash [--], and brackets []. It was not until the 16th century that an approach was made to the present system of punctuation by the Manutii of Venice. With Caxton, oblique strokes took the place of commas and periods.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

punctuation

punc tu a tion |ˌpəNGkCHo͞oˈāSHən pʌŋktʃuˈeɪʃn | ▶noun 1 the marks, such as period, comma, and parentheses, used in writing to separate sentences and their elements and to clarify meaning. 2 Biology rapid or sudden speciation, as posited by the theory of punctuated equilibrium. DERIVATIVES punc tu a tion al |-SHənl |adjective ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from medieval Latin punctuatio (n- ), from the verb punctuare (see punctuate ).

 

punctuationist

punc tu a tion ist |ˌpəNGkCHo͞oˈāSHənist ˌpəŋ (k )(t )ʃəˈweɪʃənəst | ▶noun Biology a person who believes in or advocates the hypothesis of punctuated equilibrium. DERIVATIVES punc tu a tion al ism |-ˈāSHənlˌizəm |noun, punc tu a tion al ist |-ˈāSHənl -ist |adjective, punc tu a tion ism |-ˈāSHəˌnizəm |noun

 

punctuation mark

punc ¦tu |ation mark ▶noun a mark, such as a full stop, comma, or question mark, used in writing to separate sentences and their elements and to clarify meaning.

 

Oxford Dictionary

punctuation

punc ¦tu |ation |pʌŋ (k )tʃʊˈeɪʃ (ə )n, -tjʊ -| ▶noun [ mass noun ] 1 the marks, such as full stop, comma, and brackets, used in writing to separate sentences and their elements and to clarify meaning. 2 Biology rapid or sudden speciation, as suggested by the theory of punctuated equilibrium. DERIVATIVES punctuational adjective ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from medieval Latin punctuatio (n- ), from the verb punctuare (see punctuate ).

 

punctuationist

punc ¦tu |ation |ist ▶noun Biology a person who believes in or advocates the hypothesis of punctuated equilibrium. DERIVATIVES punctuationalism noun, punctuationalist adjective, punctuationism noun

 

punctuation mark

punc ¦tu |ation mark ▶noun a mark, such as a full stop, comma, or question mark, used in writing to separate sentences and their elements and to clarify meaning.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

punctuation

punctuation noun punctuation marks, points.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

punctuation

punc tu a tion /pʌ̀ŋ (k )tʃuéɪʃ (ə )n /名詞 C 句読点 ; U 句読法 .～́ m à rk (s )句読点 .