comma vs slash

comma

noun
  • A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark. 

  • A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways. 

  • A brief interval. 

  • In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma. 

  • The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list. 

  • Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia. 

  • A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence. 

verb
  • To place a comma or commas within text; to follow, precede, or surround a portion of text with commas. 

slash

noun
  • The slash mark: the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩, sometimes (often proscribed) inclusive of any mark produced by a similar slashing movement of the pen, as the backslash ⟨\⟩. 

  • A hard swift lateral strike with a hockey or lacrosse stick, usually across another player's arms or legs. 

  • A swampy area; a swamp. 

  • A clearing in a forest, (particularly) those made by logging, fire, or other violent action. 

  • Slash fiction. 

  • A cut or laceration, often deep, made by an edged weapon or whip. 

  • A deep taper-pointed incision in a plant. 

  • A piss: an act of urination. 

  • Female genitalia. 

  • A wild swinging strike of the bat. 

  • A swift, broad, cutting stroke made by an edged weapon or whip. 

  • A sharp reduction. 

  • A slit in an outer garment exposing a lining or inner garment, usually of a contrasting color or design; any intentional long vertical cut in a garment. 

  • Any similar wide striking motion. 

  • A large quantity of watery food such as broth. 

  • The loose woody debris remaining from a slash, (particularly forestry) the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal. 

verb
  • To strike swiftly and laterally with a hockey stick, usually across another player's arms or legs. 

  • To create slashes in a garment. 

  • To criticize cuttingly. 

  • To swing wildly at the ball. 

  • To clear land, (particularly forestry) with violent action such as logging or brushfires or (agriculture, uncommon) through grazing. 

  • To produce a similar wound with a savage strike of a whip. 

  • To write slash fiction. 

  • To piss, to urinate. 

  • To work in wet conditions. 

  • To reduce sharply. 

  • To move quickly and violently. 

  • To strike violently and randomly 

  • To crack a whip with a slashing motion. 

  • To cut with a swift broad stroke of an edged weapon. 

conj
  • Used to connect two or more identities in a list. 

  • Used to list alternatives. 

adv
  • Used to note the sound or action of a slash. 

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