different between clause vs column
clause
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)
- (grammar) A verb, its necessary grammatical arguments, and any adjuncts affecting them.
- (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.
- However, Coordination facts seem to undermine this hasty conclusion: thus, consider the following:
- (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)
- (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)
- clause
Latin
Participle
clause
- 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)
- sentence, clause
- statement, line (of a text)
- writing, text, document, letter
- A section or portion of a text; a part of a series of quotes
- (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.
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column
English
Etymology
From Middle English columne, columpne, columpe, borrowed from Old French columne, from Latin columna (“a column, pillar, post”), originally a collateral form of columen, contraction culmen (“a pillar, top, crown, summit”). Akin to Latin collis (“a hill”), celsus (“high”), probably to Ancient Greek ??????? (koloph?n, “top, summit”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k?l?m/
- (General American), (Ireland) enPR: k?l??m, IPA(key): /?k?l?m/
- (General American, rare), (Ireland) enPR: k?l?j?m, IPA(key): /?k?lj?m/
- Hyphenation: col?umn
- Rhymes: -?l?m
Noun
column (plural columns)
- (architecture) A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration.
- A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom.
- A body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road.
- A body of text meant to be read line by line, especially in printed material that has multiple adjacent such on a single page.
- A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width of a usual column of text.
- (by extension) A recurring feature in a periodical, especially an opinion piece, especially by a single author or small rotating group of authors, or on a single theme.
- Something having similar vertical form or structure to the things mentioned above, such as a spinal column.
- (botany) The gynostemium
- (chemistry) An object used to separate the different components of a liquid or to purify chemical compounds.
Synonyms
- (upright structure): post, pillar, sile
Antonyms
- (line of table entries): row (which is horizontal)
Hypernyms
- (upright structure): beam
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- column in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- column in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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