Look up: parenthesis

1. parenthesis
   sentence within another one something separated 
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2. parenthesis
   [n] - either of two punctuation marks (or) used to enclose textual material
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3. Parenthesis
   a word, clause or even sentence which is inserted into a sentence to which it does not grammatically belong
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4. Parenthesis
   A parenthesis is a word or phrase inserted into a sentence to explain or elaborate. It may be placed in brackets or between dashes or commas: Sam and Emma (his oldest children) are coming to visit him next weekend. Margaret is generally happy — she sings in the mornings! — but respons...
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5. Parenthesis
   Punctuation marks (usually known as brackets).
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6. parenthesis
   a pair of signs,e.g.curved brackets,used in punctuation and mathematics to separate the matter they enclose from the overall context Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)
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7. Parenthesis
   Pa·ren'the·sis noun ; plural Parentheses . [ New Latin , from Greek ..., from ... to put in beside, insert; para` beside + ... in + ... to put, place. See Para- , En- , 2, and Thesis .] 1. A word...
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8. parenthesis
   noun either of two punctuation marks (or) used to enclose textual material
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9. Parenthesis
   • (n.) A word, phrase, or sentence, by way of comment or explanation, inserted in, or attached to, a sentence which would be grammatically complete without it. It is usually inclosed within curved lines (see def. 2 below), or dashes. • (n.) One of the curved lines which inclose a parenthetic word or phrase.Parenthesis: words in the def...
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10. parenthesis
    (from the article `punctuation`) ...as a rule, carefully punctuated on the inflectional principle. The profusion of points and virgules in the English books of the printer William ...
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11. parenthesis
    parenthesis (s), parentheses (pl) 1. One of a pair of shallow, curved signs, ( ), used to enclose an additional inserted word or comment and to distinguish it from the sentence in which it is found. 2. Either, or both, of the upright curved lines, ( ), used to mark off explanatory or qualifying remarks in writing or printing or to enclose a su...
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12. parenthesis
    parenthesis: see punctuation.
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13. parenthesis
    Practice in written or printed language of placing certain statements between a pair of punctuation marks such as commas, dashes (-), and brackets (), to show that they are asides or interruptions in the normal flow of text. Parenthetical commas are the subtlest device (`He did it, so he said, in order to help us`)&...
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14. Parenthesis
    (rhetoric) In rhetoric, a `parenthesis` (plural: parentheses; from the Greek word παρένθεσις, which comes in turn from words meaning "alongside of" and "to place") is an explanatory or qualifying word, clause, or sentence inserted int...
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