Coffee is among the most consumed beverages worldwide. According to Statista, an average person consumes roughly 42.6 liters of coffee per year.
PUNCTUATION
punctuation
(noun) the use of certain marks to clarify meaning of written material by grouping words grammatically into sentences and clauses and phrases
punctuation, punctuation mark
(noun) the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases
punctuation
(noun) something that makes repeated and regular interruptions or divisions
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
punctuation (countable and uncountable, plural punctuations)
A set of symbols and marks which are used to clarify meaning in text by separating strings of words into clauses, phrases and sentences.
An act of punctuating.
Meronyms
• See also punctuation mark
Source: Wiktionary
Punc`tu*a"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. ponctuation.] (Gram.)
Definition: The act or art of punctuating or pointing a writing or discourse; the art or mode of dividing literary composition into sentences, and members of a sentence, by means of points, so as to elucidate the author's meaning.
Note: Punctuation, as the term is usually understood, is chiefly performed with four points: the period [.], the colon [:], the semicolon [;], and the comma [,]. Other points used in writing and printing, partly rhetorical and partly grammatical, are the note of interrogation [], the note of exclamation [!], the parentheses [()], the dash [--], and brackets []. It was not until the 16th century that an approach was made to the present system of punctuation by the Manutii of Venice. With Caxton, oblique strokes took the place of commas and periods.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SALTWORT
(noun) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash
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