parenthesis English

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parenthesis Noun

— A parenthesis is a symbol that looks like code(/code or code)/code. A person may see parentheses when reading books. Most of the time, they are not used to tell the main story, but gives the reader extra information so they can understand. Billy and Bob wrote their papers (Billy wrote about karate, and Bob wrote about dogs). The quote inside the parentheses, "Billy wrote about karate, and Bob wrote about dogs", is put inside parentheses because it would be a run-on sentence if there were no parentheses. You can also use commas as parentheses, but you need to write the sentence differently. Billy, who wrote about karate, and Bob, who wrote about dogs, wrote their papers.

parenthesis

— noun either of two punctuation marks (or) used to enclose textual material

— noun (= digression) a message that departs from the main subject

Synonyms parenthesis synonyms

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parenthesis English » English

bracket

staple

clamp

brace

holdfast

round bracket

parentheses

digression

characters

aside

parenthetical

excursus

divagation

brackets

passing comment

paren

interval

interlude

intercalation

hold fast

curve

comment clause

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Movie subtitles

You are living in a blessed parenthesis, in a vacuum full of promise, and from which you expect nothing.

I read it a million times, excluding numbers, commas, periods, and parenthesis. it consists of 2881 words.

Colon.parenthesis.

Then, like in country songs, in parenthesis it says.

Starts in the corner of your mouth, works its way on down your lip and if it's really bad the corners of your mouth look like parenthesis.

We'll meet this summer then we have page 80 here, in parenthesis too.

You're a break from our normal lives, you're a. a parenthesis.

I'm a parenthesis?

Why is it in parenthesis?

Dude, this town is so small that it's in parenthesis.

No wonder it's in parenthesis.

Yeah, you. you type a colon and a parenthesis.

Apparently, he ended with the colon. and the closed parenthesis and.

Maybe in parenthesis.

Colon parenthesis.

You're a parenthesis.

She does this cute little thing with parenthesis that makes 'em look like boobs.

No, it was a parenthesis.

It wasn't a parenthesis.

The rest is a parenthesis.

All right, and to that, I say, colon, closed parenthesis, sir.

News and current affairs

That December vote on the EU Constitutional Treaty closed this parenthesis: by approving of it, the Socialists consciously accepted a reformist, social democratic, European identity.

One way to think about this paradox is in terms of the closing of a four-century-long parenthesis.