noun · irregular · countable / uncountable · rare

parenthesis

parenthesis · parentheses

дужка

отступление, скобки, отклонение, вводное слово

runde Klammer, Parenthese, Klammer, Einschub

A clause, phrase or word which is inserted into a passage which is already…A clause, phrase or word which is inserted (usually for explanation or amplification) into a passage which is already grammatically complete, and usually marked off with brackets, commas or dashes.

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/pəˈɹɛn.θə.sɪs/

» You should put parentheses around this phrase.

Meaning

4 senses

(countable, uncountable)A clause, phrase or word which is inserted (usually for explanation or amplification) into a passage which is already grammatically complete, and usually marked off with brackets, commas or dashes.
Parenthese, Einschub
вво́дное сло́воvvódnoje slóvo
(countable, uncountable)Either of a pair of brackets, especially (mainly US) round brackets, ( and ) (used to enclose parenthetical material in a text).
runde Klammer, Klammer, Parenthese
ско́бкаskóbka, кру́глая ско́бкаkrúglaja skóbka, ско́бкиskóbki
ду́жкаdúžka
either of two punctuation marks ‘(’ or ‘)’ used to enclose textual material
(countable, rhetoric, uncountable)A digression; the use of such digressions.
отступле́ниеotstuplénije, отклоне́ниеotklonénije
(countable, uncountable)Such brackets as used to clarify expressions by grouping those terms affected by a common operator, or to enclose the components of a vector or the elements of a matrix.
runde Klammer

Examples

16 sentences

You should put parentheses around this phrase.
CC BY 2.0 FR · Tatoeba · AlanF_US · C1Open on Tatoeba Report a problem
You should put this phrase in parentheses.
ruНужно заключить эту фразу в скобки. — Wezel
CC BY 2.0 FR · Tatoeba · AlanF_US · C1Open on Tatoeba Report a problem
You should enclose this note in parentheses.
CC BY 2.0 FR · Tatoeba · AlanF_US · C1Open on Tatoeba Report a problem
What does this letter in parentheses mean?
ruЧто означает эта буква в скобках? — nina99nv
CC BY 2.0 FR · Tatoeba · AlanF_US · C1Open on Tatoeba Report a problem
What do these letters in parentheses mean?
ruЧто означают эти буквы в скобках? — nina99nv
CC BY 2.0 FR · Tatoeba · AlanF_US · C1Open on Tatoeba Report a problem

Translations

9 languages

Українська

By meaning 1

either of a pair of brackets ( ):

Русский

By meaning 4

a clause, phrase or word inserted into a passage which is already grammatically complete:

either of a pair of brackets ( ):

both round brackets:

(rhetoric) a digression; the use of such digressions:

Deutsch

By meaning 2

a clause, phrase or word inserted into a passage which is already grammatically complete:

either of a pair of brackets ( ):

Origin

Learned borrowing from Late Latin parenthesis (“addition of a letter to a syllable in a wo

Learned borrowing from Late Latin parenthesis (“addition of a letter to a syllable in a word”), itself borrowed from Ancient Greek παρένθεσις (parénthesis, “insertion”). By surface analysis, par- + en- + thesis.

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