virgule

4 definitions found

virgule - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Virgule \Vir"gule\, n. [F. virgule, fr. L. virgula, dim. of
     virga. See Verge a rod.]
     A comma. [R.]
     [1913 Webster]
  
           In the MSS. of Chaucer, the line is always broken by a
           caesura in the middle, which is pointed by a virgule.
                                                    --Hallam.
     [1913 Webster]

virgule - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  virgule
      n 1: a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of
           information [syn: solidus, slash, virgule,
           diagonal, stroke, separatrix]

virgule - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  virgule
  
     <character> Rare, and ambiguous: slash or comma.
  
     "Virgule" (or rather, Latin "virgula", meaning "little rod"
     or, vividly enough, "little penis") was the name of a
     punctuation character shaped like a small slash and used in
     the Latin writing system much like a modern comma -- hence
     the ambiguity of this term in modern English.
  
     Compare French "virgule" and Italian "virgola", meaning
     "comma" (not "slash"); Italian "doppia virgola" and
     "virgoletta", both meaning "double quote".
  
     (1997-04-08)
  

virgule - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  38 Moby Thesaurus words for "virgule":
     band, bar, bend, bias, cross-hatching, dash, delineation, diagonal,
     dotted line, hachure, hairline, hatching, line, lineation, oblique,
     oblique angle, oblique figure, oblique line, rhomboid, score,
     scratch comma, separatrix, slant, slash, solidus, streak,
     streaking, striation, strip, stripe, striping, stroke,
     sublineation, transverse, underline, underlining, underscore,
     underscoring