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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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parenthesis
English
Etymology
From Late Latin parenthesis (“addition of a letter to a syllable in a word”), from Ancient Greek ?????????? (parénthesis), from ??????????? (parentíth?mi, “I put in beside, mix up”), from ???? (pará, “beside”) + ?? (en, “in”) + ?????? (títh?mi, “put, place”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?eh?- (“to put, to do”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p????n??s?s/
Noun
parenthesis (countable and uncountable, plural parentheses)
- A clause, phrase or word which is inserted (usually for explanation or amplification) into a passage which is already grammatically complete, and usually marked off with brackets, commas or dashes.
- Either of a pair of brackets, especially round brackets, ( and ) (used to enclose parenthetical material in a text).
- (rhetoric) A digression; the use of such digressions.
- (mathematics, logic) Such brackets as used to clarify expressions by grouping those terms affected by a common operator, or to enclose the components of a vector or the elements of a matrix.
Synonyms
- (clause, phrase or word): parenthetical expression
- (brackets): round bracket; parenthesis-point (obsolete)
- paren (abbreviation, for the meaning "round bracket")
- See also Thesaurus:bracket
Derived terms
- parenthesis-point
- parenthetic, parenthetical
- parenthesise, parenthesize
Translations
Anagrams
- hen's parties, interphases, preanthesis
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