clause
nounEtymology
From Middle English clause, claus, borrowed from Old French clause, from Medieval Latin clausa (Latin diminutive clausula (“close, end; a clause, close of a period”)), from Latin clausus, past participle of claudere (“to shut, close”). See close, its doublet.
Definitions
A group of words that contains a subject and a verb
A group of words that contains a subject and a verb; it may be part of a sentence or may constitute the whole sentence, depending on the syntax in each instance.
- Near-synonyms: sentential, sentence
A verb, its necessary grammatical arguments, and any adjuncts affecting them.
A verb along with its subject and their modifiers. If a clause provides a complete…
A verb along with its subject and their modifiers. If a clause provides a complete thought on its own, then it is an independent (superordinate) clause; otherwise, it is dependent (subordinate). (Independent clauses can be sentences; they can also be part of a sentence. Dependent clauses can only be part of a sentence.)
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A distinct part of a contract, a will or another legal document.
A constituent (component) of a statement or query.
To amend (a bill of lading or similar document).
- The question of clausing the bills of lading, so as to avoid "dirtying", which impairs its negotiability, may also be looked into
- Any attempt to clause a Bill of Lading will be strenuously resisted by shippers, and they will obtain clean bills in the usual ways
- It was held that the bills of lading presented were in this case 'clean' as they contained no reservations by way of endorsement, clausing or otherwise to suggest that the goods were defective
A surname.
The neighborhood
- neighborclose
- neighboradverbial clausetypes of grammatical clauses
- neighborappositive clausetypes of grammatical clauses
- neighborcomment clausetypes of grammatical clauses
- neighborcomparative clausetypes of grammatical clauses
- neighborconcessive clausetypes of grammatical clauses
- neighborconditional clausetypes of grammatical clauses
- neighborconditional moodtypes of grammatical clauses
- neighborcoordinate clausetypes of grammatical clauses
- neighbordefining relative clausetypes of grammatical clauses
- neighbordependent clausetypes of grammatical clauses
- neighborfinite clausetypes of grammatical clauses
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at clause. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at clause. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at clause
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA