(n.) A character or point [,] marking the smallest divisions of a sentence, written or printed.
(n.) A small interval (the difference between a major and minor half step), seldom used except by tuners.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We had a manifesto – and I'm going to put some inverted commas around it – that was produced in 2010.
(2) The most common ARs were electrolyte disturbances (23.5% of patients), extracellular volume depletion (9.0% of patients) and hepatic comma (3.6% of patients).
(3) If a phrase that expresses a comment about a noun can be omitted without substantially changing the meaning, and if it would be pronounced after a slight pause and with its own intonation contour, then be sure to set it off with commas (or dashes or parentheses): "The Cambridge restaurant, which had failed to clean its grease trap, was infested with roaches."
(4) Small spheres, rods and bodies the shape of a comma were common; larger beaded structures were somewhat rarer.
(5) Hemoperfusion with activated charcoal is indicated in intoxications and in hepatic comma because the charcoal absorbs toxic substances.
(6) We also found that in the presence of EDTA, GPIIb-IIIa dissociates into two similar comma-shaped subunits, each containing a portion of the globular head and a single tail.
(7) In contrast with these results, in kidneys fixed 4-6 d after anti-laminin IgG-HRP injection, basement membranes of vesicle, comma, and S-shaped nephrons were unlabeled, indicating that they were assembled after injection.
(8) They should also be able to write extended sentences and use commas.
(9) They are mostly located in the soft tissues of the fingers, resembling points, commas or dashes.
(10) The COMMA-D cell line was unique compared to the other cell lines with respect to several characteristics.
(11) This mass is often comma shaped on the transverse scans and lacks good definition of its inferior margin on longitudinal scans.
(12) The role of ongoing protein synthesis in mediating the posttranscriptional effects of hormones on casein gene expression in the COMMA D mouse mammary epithelial cell line was investigated using the protein synthesis inhibitors, cycloheximide and anisomycin.
(13) The effect of VIP and its related peptides on cAMP production has been characterized: 1) in long term culture of normal human mammary epithelial cells (HMEC); 2) in immortalized and transformed ST cell lines established from normal HMEC after genomic insertion of the large T oncogene of SV40; 3) in the spontaneously immortalized HC-11 cells, a clone isolated from the mouse mammary epithelial cells COMMA-1D, described to exhibit normal morphogenesis in vivo and functional differentiation in vitro.
(14) Details for the preparation and partial purification of culture supernatant fluids of Vibrio cholerae (V. comma) 569B which retain rabbit ileal loop fluid-accumulating activity are presented.
(15) The mammary outgrowth lines were designated DIM-1, DIM-2, DIM-3, and DIM-4 to indicate their origin from the mammary cell line COMMA-D. DIM-1, DIM-2, and DIM-3 were classical hyperplastic alveolar outgrowth lines that possessed high tumor-producing capabilities and rapidly evolved by transplant generation (TG) 6 into ovarian hormone-independent populations.
(16) A nonrestrictive relative clause is set off by commas, dashes or parentheses, as in "The pair of shoes, which cost five thousand dollars, was hideous."
(17) Thus the singular heterogeneity of the erythrocytes in sickle cell disease may be indicative of the factor(s) responsible for the diagnostic comma sign.
(18) Others were rich in organelles, including Golgi apparatus, granular endoplasmic reticulum, comma and dumb-bell shaped dense bodies and centriole or basal body: these cells were numerous in the three smaller specimens but almost absent from the largest.
(19) The other 4 cell lines, COMMA-F, COMMA-T, MOMA-1, and MOMA-2, produced neither normal nor neoplastic outgrowths.
(20) The lesions were characterized histologically by relatively well-circumscribed tumor-like nodules composed of a proliferation of teardrop or comma-shaped islands of squamous epithelium.
Momma
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) That is the shit.” “Not sure what my momma is thinking.
(2) My mother is happy to have me stay near home forever, I'm sort of a momma's boy.
(3) It is my belief that they planted that sweater on my momma,” Theresa Johnson told the Guardian.
(4) She was a drug dealer who always treated us right, buying us presents even when momma slept on the couch and wasn’t good to Sweet Pea.
(5) Welcome to the momma-cussing, rap-battling, “are you disrespecting my family” phase of the Brexit talks.
(6) Her mother, my big momma, said, 'No way, you ain't gon' go, they gon' bomb it.'
(7) Thank you.” When we crossed into Oklahoma, her words quickened, each new sign or landmark prompting a memory, regret or fear: “My momma had a girlfriend named Sweet Pea who lived here in Tulsa.
(8) She just lives three doors down from her momma, and she thinks she making it on her own.” We pulled into the parking lot and our headlights lit a courtyard empty except for a basketball lying on a dirt patch.
(9) In video of the Friday incident that was uploaded to YouTube , Casebolt shouts and gestures at 15-year-old Dajerria Becton, and grabs her head and pushes her face down into the ground while she cries: “Call my momma.” He also briefly draws his gun at two young people who approach him and acts aggressively towards others who are standing quietly.
(10) Elba, who has previously starred in one of Perry's romantic comedies ( Daddy's Little Girls ), lamented the trend for cross-dressing caricatures of black characters – a phenomenon many would recognise from films such as the The Klumps and Big Momma's House series – describing it as "buffoonish".
(11) "We are Mummy Helen and Mummy Sarah, or Mum and Momma.
(12) Momma ( speaking in Serbian ) – thank you very much.
(13) "Now we go home and they say, 'Momma, give me sweets', and you can't explain to a child that there's no money."