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Definition: PARENTHESES |
PARENTHESESPlural1. Of Parenthesis |
Date "PARENTHESES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | Parentheses See left parenthesis, right parenthesis. (1997-12-03). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Indication | Keyboard symbols, printing symbols; red letter, italics, sublineation, underlining, bold font; jotting; note, annotation, reference; blaze, cedilla, guillemets, hachure; quotation marks, double quotes,"", parentheses, brackets, braces, curly brackets, arrows, slashes; left parenthesis, "("; right parenthesis, ")"; opening bracket, ""; left curly brace, "{"; right curly brace, "}"; left arrow, ""; right arrow, ""; forward slash, "/"; backward slash, "\"; exclamation point, "!"; commercial at, "@"; pound sign, "#"; percent sign, "%"; carat, "^"; ampersand, "&"; asterisk, ""; hyphen, "-"; dash, "-", "_"; em dash, "--"; plus sign, "+", equals sign, "="; question mark, "?"; period, "."; semicolon, ";", colon, ":"; comma, ","; apostrophe, "'"; single quote, "'"; tilde, "~". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: PARENTHESES |
| English words defined with "PARENTHESES": infix notation ♦ parenthesis-free notation, parenthetic, parenthetical. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "PARENTHESES": abstract syntax, algebraic parentheses, algebraical parentheses ♦ backreference, Boolean search ♦ combinator, concrete syntax, crystal indices, crystallographic planes, curly bracket ♦ function application ♦ indirect address ♦ Marks in Grammar and Printing ♦ precedence lossage ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal ♦ satisfiability problem, string reduction. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "PARENTHESES": Parenthesis. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Recommended parties involved in these services are given in parentheses. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "PARENTHESES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PARENTHESES" is used about 56 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 56 | 45,296 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "PARENTHESES": algebraic parentheses ♦ algebraical parentheses ♦ in parentheses ♦ put in parentheses. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "PARENTHESES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قوسان بين الكلام, جملة معترضة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | кръгли скоби. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 括号 (brace, braces, Parenthesis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | kulaté závorky. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | algebraisk parentes (algebraic parentheses, algebraical parentheses). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ronde haken (parenthesis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | algebralliset sulkumerkit (algebraic parentheses, algebraical parentheses). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | parenthèses (parenthesis), parenthèse (parenthesis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Parenthesen, runde Klammern (parenthesis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παρένθεση (intercalation, parenthesis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | zárójel (bracket, brackets, parenthesis, round brackets). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tanda kurung (braces, bracket). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | parentesi algebriche (algebraic parentheses, algebraical parentheses). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | パール編み (full cup, parenthesis, pi, pie, pineapple, pioneer, pioneer spirit, pipe, pipe-line, pipe-organ, piping, purl stitch, tart, tube, vasectomy), 丸括弧 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | パーレン (parenthesis), まるがっ". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 괄호 (Parenthesis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arenthesespay direitos dos pais. (various references) круглые скобки (parenthesis, round brackets), интермедия (interlude, intermezzo, parenthesis, sideshow, side-show). (various references) zagrada ' (brackets), umetanje (insertion, intercalation, interpolation, interposition, parenthesis). (various references) pl. de parenthesis. (various references) parentestecken (parenthesis), parentes (bracket, parenthesis). (various references) parantez işareti (parenthesis), parantez (brackets, parenthesis). (various references) у дужках (in parentheses). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"PARENTHESES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: parantheses, paranthesis, parentesis, parenthasees, parenthases, parenthasis, parenthese, parenthesees, parenthesus, parenthises, paresthesias, paresthesis, paretheses, parethesis, Perinthus. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PARENTHESES" (pronounced pere"nthusē'z) |
| 5 | -th u s ē' z | hypotheses. |
| 4 | -u s ē' z | analyses, diocese, dioceses, emphases, idiosyncrasies, indices. |
| 3 | -s ē' z | feces, oversees. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-h-n-p-r-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: aphereses, enspheres, hasteners, pretenses. | |
-3 letters: antheses, assenter, earnests, ensphere, esterase, haptenes, hastener, heartens, heptanes, panthers, pasterns, pensters, pertness, phenates, preheats, presents, preteens, pretense, raptness, reshapes, sarsenet, serenate, serenest, serpents, sharpens, sharpest, sheerest, sheeters, steepens, steepers, terpenes, tesserae, trapeses. | |
-4 letters: aethers, anthers, apheses, aptness, arpents, asperse, earnest, earthen, eastern, easters, entases, entraps, entrees, ethanes, ethenes, haptene, haptens, harness, hastens, hearses, hearten, heaters, heptane, nearest, nesters, panther, parents, pareses, pastern, pasters, patness, peahens, peeress, penates, pensees, penster, pesetas, pesters, phenate, phrases, preheat, present, presets, preteen, rashest, reheats, renests, repasts, repeats, repents, reseats, resents, reshape, retapes, retenes, sateens, searest, seaters, seethes, senates, sensate, serapes, seraphs, serenes, serpent, shapers, sharpen, sheeter, sherpas, snathes, spahees, sparest, spathes, sphenes, spheres, steepen, steeper, teasers, teeners, tephras, terpene, tessera, thenars, threaps, threeps, trashes, trepans. | |
-5 letters: aether, anther, antres, aretes, arpens, arpent, aspens, aspers, assent, assert, astern, asters, earths, easter, eaters, enates, enrapt, entera, enters, entrap, entree, erases, esters, etapes, eterne, ethane, ethene, ethers, haeres, hanses, hapten, hasten, hastes, haters, hearse, hearts, heater, hereat, herpes, neater, nester, nether, parent, parses, pashes, passee, passer, paster, pastes, patens, paters, peahen, peasen, peases, pensee, perses, peseta, pester, peters, phases, phrase, prases, prates, preens, preset, prests, ranees, raphes, rashes, reests, reheat, renest, rentes, repass, repast, repeat, repent, reseat, reseen, resees, resent, resets, reshes, retape, retene, sanest, sarees, sarsen, sateen, seater, seethe, senate, serape, seraph, serene, serest, shapen, shaper, shapes, shares, sharns, sharps, shears, sheens, sheers, sheets, sherpa, shnaps, snares, snathe, snaths, sneaps, sneers, sneesh, spahee, spares, sparse, spates, spathe, speans, spears, speers, spense, sphene, sphere, sprats, sprees, sprent, stanes, stapes, staphs, stares, steeps, steers, steres, sterna, sterns, straps, streps, tapers, teaser, teases, teener, tenser, tenses, tepees, tephra, teraph, ternes, thanes, thenar, theres, theses, threap, threep, threes, trapes, treens, trepan. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-h-n-p-r-s-s-t" | |
+2 letters: asthenosphere, parenthesizes. | |
+3 letters: asthenospheres, magnetospheres, preanesthetics, weatherpersons. | |
+4 letters: openheartedness, parthenogeneses, parthenogenesis. | |
+5 letters: hepatopancreases, weatherproofness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 41 52 45 4E 54 48 45 53 45 53 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- .-. . -. - .... . ... . ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01000001 01010010 01000101 01001110 01010100 01001000 01000101 01010011 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P A R E N T H E S E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0041 0052 0045 004E 0054 0048 0045 0053 0045 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5035523948544239533953 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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