Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A little rod; a twig.
- noun A Comma. Hallam, Lit. Hist, of Europe, i. 8
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A comma.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun typography The
diagonal slash character -/ , used to separate parts of text, and to represent the wordper in expressions such as feet/second.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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A virgule is closer to the vertical than a solidus, but usually one has to see them side by side in the same typeface to know the difference.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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In English the word virgule denotes “/”, the mark commonly known as the slash.
Comma splice 2008
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Slavs! had minimal impact for me, and although in Home/Kabul, the segment preceding the virgule is inspired, the lengthier portion following that slash, he has yet to get right.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Tony Kushner's Intelligent Homosexual's Guide... Continues Genius Display David Finkle 2011
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Slavs! had minimal impact for me, and although in Home/Kabul, the segment preceding the virgule is inspired, the lengthier portion following that slash, he has yet to get right.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Tony Kushner's Intelligent Homosexual's Guide... Continues Genius Display David Finkle 2011
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Slavs! had minimal impact for me, and although in Home/Kabul, the segment preceding the virgule is inspired, the lengthier portion following that slash, he has yet to get right.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Tony Kushner's Intelligent Homosexual's Guide... Continues Genius Display David Finkle 2011
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Slavs! had minimal impact for me, and although in Home/Kabul, the segment preceding the virgule is inspired, the lengthier portion following that slash, he has yet to get right.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Tony Kushner's Intelligent Homosexual's Guide... Continues Genius Display David Finkle 2011
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Commas were not employed until the 16th century; in early printed books in English one sees a virgule a slash like this /, which the comma replaced around 1520.
Is This the Future of Punctuation Henry Hitchings 2011
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Often, the French ‘virgule’ is used differently than in English.
Comma splice 2008
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It was once common as a sort of bullet point and in legal codes, but is now visible mostly to writers using word-processing programs. virgule:/
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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The term "slash" comes from the virgule (or slash) between character names - for instance Kirk/Spock is fiction dealing with a gay relationship between "Star Trek's" Kirk and Spock.
reesetee commented on the word virgule
The so-called forward slash or stroke. Also solidus.
February 23, 2007
qms commented on the word virgule
Typography has many tools
But it's hard to remember the rules:
What meaning attaches
To dots and to dashes
And where do you put the virgules?
September 24, 2014
qms commented on the word virgule
In golf there is a particularly painful class of failed putt that the French call a "virgule." This is when the ball rolls around half the circumference of the cup and then continues a short distance on the far side of the hole. The shape that is described by this progress is that of a comma or, in French, virgule. Play golf with French speakers and you will hear this word uttered with the passion of blasphemy.
Golf can be mockingly cruel
And putting a torturer's tool.
The impudent ball
Won't drop in at all
But shapes what the French call virgule.
September 24, 2014
ruzuzu commented on the word virgule
Adding this to the list of qms poems.
October 11, 2021