different between clause vs colon

English

Etymology

From Middle English clause, claus, borrowed from Old French clause, from Medieval Latin clausa (Latin diminutive clausula (“close, end; a clause, close of a period”)), from Latin clausus, past participle of claudere (“to shut, close”). See close.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kl??z/
• Rhymes: -??z
• Homophone: claws

Noun

clause (plural clauses)

1. (grammar) A verb, its necessary grammatical arguments, and any adjuncts affecting them.
2. (grammar) A verb along with its subject and their modifiers. If a clause provides a complete thought on its own, then it is an independent (superordinate) clause; otherwise, it is (subordinate) dependent.

   • However, Coordination facts seem to undermine this hasty conclusion: thus, consider the following:
     (43)      [Your sister could go to College], but [would she get a degree?]
     The second (italicised) conjunct is a Clause containing an inverted Auxiliary, would. Given our earlier assumptions that inverted Auxiliaries are in C, and that C is a constituent of S-bar, it follows that the italicised Clause in (43) must be an S-bar. But our familiar constraint on Coordination tells us that only constituents belonging to the same Category can be conjoined. Since the second Clause in (43) is clearly an S-bar, then it follows that the first Clause must also be an S-bar — one in which the C(omplementiser) position has been left empty.

3. (law) A separate part of a contract, a will or another legal document.

Usage notes

In “When it got dark, they went back into the house”, “When it got dark” is a dependent clause within the complete sentence. The independent clause “they went back into the house” could stand alone as a sentence, whereas the dependent clause could not.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• close

Translations

Verb

clause (third-person singular simple present clauses, present participle clausing, simple past and past participle claused)

1. (transitive, shipping) To amend (a bill of lading or similar document).

Further reading

• clause in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• clause in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Caelus, secula

French

Etymology

From Old French clause, from Medieval Latin clausa.

Noun

clause f (plural clauses)

1. clause

Latin

Participle

clause

1. vocative masculine singular of clausus

Middle English

Alternative forms

• clawse, claus

Etymology

From Old French clause, from Medieval Latin clausa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?klau?z(?)/

Noun

clause (plural clauses)

1. sentence, clause
2. statement, line (of a text)
3. writing, text, document, letter
4. A section or portion of a text; a part of a series of quotes
5. (law) A clause, term, or consideration; a section in a legal document.

Descendants

• English: clause

References

• “clause, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-23.

English

Etymology 1

From Latin c?lon (“a member of a verse of poem”), from Ancient Greek ????? (kôlon, “a member, limb, clause, part of a verse”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??.l?n/, /?k??.l?n/
• (US) enPR: k?'l?n, IPA^(key): /?ko?.l?n/
• Rhymes: -??l?n

Noun

colon (plural colons or cola)

1. The punctuation mark ":".
2. (rare) The triangular colon (especially in context of not being able to type the actual triangular colon).
3. (rhetoric) A rhetorical figure consisting of a clause which is grammatically, but not logically, complete.
4. (palaeography) A clause or group of clauses written as a line, or taken as a standard of measure in ancient manuscripts or texts.

Synonyms

• (punctuation mark): colon-point (obsolete)

Derived terms

• colon-point

Translations

See also

• Wikipedia article on colons (in punctuation)
• Wikipedia article on the colon (in anatomy)

Punctuation

Etymology 2

From Latin c?lon (“large intestine”), from Ancient Greek ????? (kólon, “the large intestine, also food, meat, fodder”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??.l?n/, /?k??.l?n/
• (US) enPR: k?'l?n, IPA^(key): /?ko?l?n/
• Rhymes: -??l?n

Noun

colon (plural colons or cola)

1. (anatomy) Part of the large intestine; the final segment of the digestive system, after (distal to) the ileum and before (proximal to) the rectum.

Synonyms

• (final segment of digestive system): large bowel

Holonyms

• (segment of digestive system): large intestine

Derived terms

• colectomy
• colic
• colitis
• colonic
• colonitis
• colonoscope
• colonoscopy
• colostomy
• colonic irrigation

Translations

See also

• bowel
• large intestine
• rectum

Etymology 3

From French colon.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k??l?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /k??lo?n/, /ko?.lo?n/

Noun

colon (plural colons)

1. (obsolete) A husbandman.
2. A European colonial settler, especially in a French colony.
   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 28:

     The reaction of the European colons, a mixture of shock and fear, was to demand further draconian measures and to suspend any suggestion of new reforms.

Alternative forms

• colone

Further reading

• https://web.archive.org/web/20050326041700/http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures/C/colon.htm Part of a glossary of classical rhetorical terms.
• colon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• colon in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• colon at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Locon, locon, lonco

Asturian

Noun

colon m (plural cólones)

1. (anatomy) colon (digestive system)

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin col?nus.

Noun

colon m (plural colons, feminine colona)

1. colonist, settler
2. farmer during the Roman Empire

Related terms

• colònia

Further reading

• “colon” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Esperanto

Noun

colon

1. accusative singular of colo

French

Etymology 1

From Latin col?nus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.l??/

Noun

colon m (plural colons)

1. colonist, colonizer
   • Laurent Lamoine, Le Pouvoir locale en Gaule romaine, 2009, 240.

     Sous les auspices du dictateur A. Cornelius Cossus, les Romains viennent de remporter une victoire sur leurs voisins Volsques, Latins et Herniques, associés aux colons romains en rébellion de Circéi et Vélitrae.

2. camper (child in a colonie de vacances)
   • José Casatéjada, Via Compostela: Des Monts du Velay à la Costa da Morte, 2015, 243.

     Une fois encore, ils me ramènant à mon enfance, aux colonies de vacances. Aves les autres petits colons, mes frères et moi trottions sur les chemins de traverse pour aller jouer dans les près ou à la rivière.

3. sharecropper in the system of colonat partiaire

Etymology 2

See côlon.

Noun

colon

1. Misspelling of côlon.

Further reading

• “colon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

colon (uncountable)

1. (anatomy) colon

Italian

Noun

colon m (invariable)

1. (anatomy) colon

Derived terms

• colectomia
• colite
• colon ascendente
• colon discendente
• colon sigmoideo
• colon trasverso
• colonscopia
• colostomia
• sindrome del colon irritabile

Anagrams

• clono, clonò

Latin

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ????? (kólon).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ko.lon/, [?k????n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ko.lon/, [?k??l?n]

Noun

colon n (genitive col?); second declension

1. (anatomy) The colon; large intestine
2. colic, a disease of the colon

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).

Descendants

• ? English: colon

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek ????? (kôlon).

Alternative forms

• c?lum
• c?lus

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ko?.lon/, [?ko????n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ko.lon/, [?k??l?n]

Noun

c?lon n (genitive c?l?); second declension

1. a member or part of a verse of a poem

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).

Synonyms

• (member of a verse): membrum

Descendants

• ? English: colon

References

• colon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• colon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• colon in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Romanian

Etymology

From French côlon

Noun

colon m (plural coloni)

1. colon

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kolon/, [?ko.lõn]

Etymology 1

From Latin c?lon, from Ancient Greek ????? (kôlon).

Noun

colon m (plural cólones)

1. (grammar) colon (punctuation mark)

Etymology 2

From Latin c?lon, from Ancient Greek ????? (kólon).

Noun

colon m (plural cólones)

1. (anatomy) colon (part of the large intestine)

Derived terms

• colonoscopia, colonoscopía
• colonoscopio
• megacolon
• mesocolon

Further reading

• “colon” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.