What's the difference between comma and semicolon?

Comma


Definition:

  • (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.

Semicolon


Definition:

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

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Semicolons You can lead a full and happy life without bothering with semicolons.
  • (2) "Spending nearly three hours of screen time to visually represent every comma, period and semicolon in the first six chapters of the perennially popular 19-chapter book, Jackson and his colleagues have created a purist's delight, something the millions of die-hard fans of his Lord of the Rings trilogy will gorge upon," writes Todd McCarthy of the Hollywood Reporter .

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