clause

Speech parts

1. clause - Noun

2. clause - Verb

3. Clause - Proper noun

Meaning

A separate portion of a written paper, paragraph, or sentence; an article, stipulation, or proviso, in a legal document.

A subordinate portion or a subdivision of a sentence containing a subject and its predicate.

See Letters clause / close, under Letter.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

article term section condition portion requirement item provision paragraph stipulation part amendment group line point
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Antonyms

word ease deficit silence nonsense rubbish
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Hypernyms

construction section expression subdivision grammatical construction

Hyponyms

joker rider deductible escalator dependent clause main clause

Phrases with the word

object clause attributive clause complement clause concessive clause conditional clause time clause

Anagrams

caules Caelus

Examples

A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws Makes that and the action fine. George Herbert

I watched myself put my paw in the bear trap on that one because there was this clause about leaving members. Elliott Smith

The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority... it is the one guarantee of human freedom to the American people. Frank I. Cobb

I had been warned not to get on a motorcycle, sort of. I think there is a clause in most general basic contracts to keep yourself in one piece and not alter your looks without telling them first. Charisma Carpenter

It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause. Michael Kinsley

If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause. Charles Morgan

Close letter words and terms

clausal complement clausal normal form clausarin claused clausehood clauselike