PARENTHESIS
\pəɹˈɛnθəsˌɪs], \pəɹˈɛnθəsˌɪs], \p_ə_ɹ_ˈɛ_n_θ_ə_s_ˌɪ_s]\
Definitions of PARENTHESIS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
Sort: Oldest first
By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By Oddity Software
By Noah Webster.
-
An explanatory word or clause put in a sentence which is grammatically complete without it; indicated by the marks.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
-
A word, phrase, or sentence put in or inserted in another grammatically complete without it:-pl. the marks () used to show this:-pl. PARENTHESES.
By Daniel Lyons
Word of the day
basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).