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- noun Indicates a pause longer than the
comma and shorter than aperiod /full stop . - noun Represents two
eyes vertically aligned, thelower oneblinking , in order to formemoticons .
Etymologies
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The Italian printer Aldus Manutius established the practice of using the semicolon mark to separate words of opposed meaning, and to indicate interdependent statements. The earliest, general use of the semicolon in English was in 1591.
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