different between semicolon vs parenthesis

English

Alternative forms

• semi-colon

Etymology

From semi- +? colon.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?mi?k??l?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?miko?l?n/

Noun

semicolon (plural semicolons or semicola)

1. The punctuation mark ;.

Translations

See also

Punctuation

See also

• ; Greek question mark

Anagrams

• cosmoline

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)

1. 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.
2. Either of a pair of brackets, especially round brackets, ( and ) (used to enclose parenthetical material in a text).
3. (rhetoric) A digression; the use of such digressions.
4. (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