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PARENTHESIS
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Irregular inflected form: parentheses
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A message that departs from the main subject
Synonyms:
aside; digression; divagation; excursus; parenthesis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("parenthesis" is a kind of...):
content; message; subject matter; substance (what a communication that is about something is about)
Derivation:
parenthetic; parenthetical (qualifying or explaining; placed or as if placed in parentheses)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Either of two punctuation marks (or) used to enclose textual material
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("parenthesis" is a kind of...):
punctuation; punctuation mark (the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases)
