comma vs spangle

comma

noun
  • 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 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. 

  • A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark. 

  • 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. 

spangle

noun
  • Any of a number of swallowtail butterflies (genus Papilio); specifically Papilio protenor. 

  • A speckle or spot, especially on the body of an animal. 

  • Any small sparkling object. 

  • A point of light; also (rare), a glitter, a sparkle. 

  • A small, flat piece of sparkling metallic or metal-like material with a hole which is sewn on to a garment, etc., for decoration; a sequin. 

  • A shiny particle of a mineral. 

  • A star. 

verb
  • To adorn or decorate (something). 

  • To fix spangles or sparkling objects to (something); to bespangle. 

  • To flash, glitter, or sparkle. 

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