Word Meanings - PARENTHESIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A word, phrase, or sentence, by way of comment or explanation, inserted in, or attached to, a sentence which would be grammatically complete without it. It is usually inclosed within curved lines (see def. 2 below), or dashes.

• Commentation
  The act or process of commenting or criticising; exposition.
• Curvative
  Having the margins only a little curved; -- said of leaves.
• Curvilinearity
  The state of being curvilinear or of being bounded by curved lines.
• SENTENCEMETHOD
  A method of teaching reading by giving first attention to phrases and sentences and later analyzing these into their verbal and alphabetic components; -- contrasted with alphabet and word methods.
• Commentator
  One who writes a commentary or comments; an expositor; an annotator.
• Curvature
  The act of curving, or the state of being bent or curved; a curving or bending, normal or abnormal, as of a line or surface from a rectilinear direction; a bend; a curve.
• Curvilinearly
  In a curvilinear manner.
• Insertion
  The act of inserting; as, the insertion of scions in stocks; the insertion of words or passages in writings.
• Withing
  of Withe
• WHICHEVERWHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• Attached
  of Attach
• Commentatorial
  Pertaining to the making of commentaries.
• Curvinerved
  Having the ribs or the veins of the leaves curved; -- called also curvinervate and curve-veined.
• WITHOUTDOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. [Obs.] "Her without-door form." Shak.
• Attaching
  of Attach

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