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parentheses

Parentheses ( ( ) ) are used to separate information that is not necessary to the structure or meaning of the surrounding text.

pa·ren·the·sis

(pə-rĕn′thĭ-sĭs)

n. pl. par·en·the·ses (-sēz′)

1. Either or both of the upright curved lines, ( ), used to mark off explanatory or qualifying remarks in writing or printing or enclose a sum, product, or other expression considered or treated as a collective entity in a mathematical operation.

a. A qualifying or amplifying word, phrase, or sentence inserted within written matter in such a way as to be independent of the surrounding grammatical structure.

b. A comment departing from the theme of discourse; a digression.

3. An interruption of continuity; an interval: "This is one of the things I wasn't prepared for—the amount of unfilled time, the long parentheses of nothing" (Margaret Atwood).

[Late Latin, insertion of a letter or syllable in a word, from Greek, from parentithenai, to insert : para-, beside; see para-¹ + en-, in; see en in Indo-European roots + tithenai, to put; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.]

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parenthesis

(pəˈrɛnθɪsɪs)

n, pl -ses (-ˌsiːz)

1. (Grammar) a phrase, often explanatory or qualifying, inserted into a passage with which it is not grammatically connected, and marked off by brackets, dashes, etc

2. (Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) Also called: bracket either of a pair of characters, (), used to enclose such a phrase or as a sign of aggregation in mathematical or logical expressions

3. an intervening occurrence; interlude; interval

4. (Grammar) in parenthesis inserted as a parenthesis

[C16: via Late Latin from Greek: something placed in besides, from parentithenai, from para-¹ + en-² + tithenai to put]

parenthetic, ˌparenˈthetical adj

ˌparenˈthetically adv

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pa•ren•the•sis

(pəˈrɛn θə sɪs)

n., pl. -ses (-ˌsiz)

1. either or both of a pair of signs () used in writing to mark off an interjected explanatory or qualifying remark, to indicate separate groupings of symbols in mathematics or symbolic logic, etc.

2. Usu., parentheses. the material contained within these marks.

3. a qualifying, explanatory, or appositive word, phrase, or clause that interrupts a syntactic construction without otherwise affecting it, set off in speech by intonation and in writing by commas, parentheses, or dashes, as Bill Smith - you've met him - is coming tonight.

4. an interval.

[1560–70; < Late Latin < Greek parénthesis a putting in beside. See par-, en-², thesis]

parenthesis

An expression in which something is inserted into a phrase or sentence that would be complete without it.

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Noun	1.	parenthesis - either of two punctuation marks (or) used to enclose textual material punctuation mark, punctuation - the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases
	2.	parenthesis - a message that departs from the main subject digression, divagation, excursus, aside subject matter, content, message, substance - what a communication that is about something is about

parenthesis

noun

An instance of digressing:

aside, deviation, digression, divagation, divergence, divergency, excursion, excursus, irrelevancy, tangent.

Translations

أقْواس حَول الكَلامكَلِمَه أو جُمْلَة مُعْتَرِضَه

závorkavsuvka

indskudklammeparentes

Klammer Parenthese

παρένθεση

paréntesis

sulkeetsulkumerkki

parenthèse

zagrada

kerek zárójelzárójelzárójelbe tett megjegyzés

innskotsorîsvigi

parentesi tra parentesi frase tra parentesi

įterpiantįterptinisįterptinis žodisįterptinis žodžių junginyslenktiniai skliaustai

apaļās iekavasiesprausts vārds/vārdu grupa

haakjes

innskutt bemerkning

nawias

parentézavsuvka

parentes

ara sözayraçparantez

圆括号插入语

parenthesis

[pəˈrenθɪsɪs] N (parentheses (pl)) [pəˈrenθɪsiːz] → paréntesis m inv
in parenthesis → entre paréntesis

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parenthesis

[pəˈrɛnθəsɪs] [parentheses] [pəˈrɛnθəsiːz] (pl) n → parenthèse f
in parentheses, in parenthesis → entre parenthèses

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parenthesis

n pl <parentheses> → Klammer (→ zeichen nt) f, → Parenthese f; (= words, statement) → Einschub m, → Parenthese f; in parentheses → in (runden) Klammern; could I just say in parenthesis that … → darf ich vielleicht einflechten, dass …

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parenthesis

[pəˈrɛnθɪsɪs] n (parentheses (pl)) [pəˈrɛnθɪsiːz‘] → parentesi f inv
in parentheses → fra parentesi

parenthesis

(pəˈrenθəsis) – plural paˈrentheses (-siːz) – noun

1. a word or group of words within a sentence, which gives a comment etc and usually separates from the rest of the sentence by brackets, dashes etc. I asked John (my friend John Smith) to come and see me.

2. a round bracket used to mark the seperate part of such a sentence.

parenthetical (parənˈθetikəl) adjective

a parenthetical remark.

in parentheses

said, written etc as a parenthesis.

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("That's exactly the method," the Bellman bold In a hasty parenthesis cried, "That's exactly the way I have always been told That the capture of Snarks should be tried!")

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I will observe, in parenthesis, that Heine says that a true autobiography is almost an impossibility, and that man is bound to lie about himself.

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But, as I was saying, Richard, or was about to say, my daughter has been allowed to rust; her aunt was a mere duenna; hence, in parenthesis, Richard, her distrust of me; my nature and that of the duenna are poles asunder - poles!

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('And she is a steam-ingein at it,' murmured Mr Boffin, in an admiring parenthesis, 'when she once begins.

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("You listen to this," said my sister to me, in a severe parenthesis.)

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And here Cide Hamete inserts a parenthesis in which he says that to have seen the pair marching from the door to the bed, linked hand in hand in this way, he would have given the best of the two tunics he had.

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I ought to mention that he marked the parenthesis, in the air, with his finger.

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These fellows, knowing the extravagant gullibility of the age, set their wits to work in the imagination of improbable possibilities - of odd accidents, as they term them; but to a reflecting intellect(like mine," I added, in parenthesis, putting my forefinger unconsciously to the side of my nose,) "to a contemplative understanding such as I myself possess, it seems evident at once that the marvelous increase of late in these 'odd accidents' is by far the oddest accident of all.

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Wragge persisted -- on evidence which, it may be remarked in parenthesis, would have satisfied many wiser ghost-seers than herself -- in believing that she had been supernat urally favored by a visitor from the world of spirits.

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('Much he knew about it himself!') said Miss Betsey in a parenthesis.

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An assault on our pockets, which in more barbarous times would have been made in the brusque form of a pistol-shot, is quite a well-bred and smiling procedure now it has become a request for a loan thrown in as an easy parenthesis between the second and third glasses of claret.

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Geoffrey Delamayn, whose fair fame had been assailed (it was needless, the correspondent added in parenthesis, to say how groundlessly), was understood to have expressed, not only the indignation natural under the circumstances but also his extreme regret at not finding himself in a position to aid Captain Newenden's efforts to bring the anonymous slanderer to justice.