different between clause vs coordination

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

Alternative forms

• co-ordination, coördination

Etymology

From Middle French coordination, from Late Latin coordinationem (accusative of coordinatio), from Latin coordinare.Morphologically coordinate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ko????d??ne???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: co?or?di?na?tion

Noun

coordination (usually uncountable, plural coordinations)

1. The act of coordinating, making different people or things work together for a goal or effect.
   • 1919, Robert W. Chambers, In Secret

     Then there's the State Service and the police and several other services. And there is no proper co-ordination, no single head for all these agencies.

2. The resulting state of working together; cooperation; synchronization.
3. The ability to coordinate one's senses and physical movements in order to act skillfully.

   I'm terrible at sports; I have no coordination.

4. (possibly archaic) the state of being equal in rank or power.
   • c. 1833, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

     There are two possible modes of unity in a State; one by absolute coordination of each to all, and of all to each; the other by subordination of classes and offices.

5. (grammar) An equal joining together of two or more phrases or clauses, for example, using and, or, or but.
6. (chemistry) The reaction of one or more ligands with a metal ion to form a coordination compound.

Antonyms

• incoordination
• subordination

Derived terms

Related terms

• coordinated, uncoordinated

Translations

French

Etymology

From Latin co?rdin?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.??.di.na.sj??/

Noun

coordination f (plural coordinations)

1. coordination

Derived terms

Related terms

• coordonner

Further reading

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