clause
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: clauses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: clauses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: clausing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: claused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: claused
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: sentential, sentence
gloss: A verb, its necessary grammatical arguments, and any adjuncts affecting them.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.)
pos: noun
examples: However, Coordination facts seem to undermine this hasty conclusion: thus, consider the following:
 (43) [Your sister could go to College], but [would she get a degree?]
 The second (italicised) conjunct is a Clause containing an inverted Auxiliary, would. Given our earlier assumptions that inverted Auxiliaries are in C, and that C is a constituent of S-bar, it follows that the italicised Clause in (43) must be an S-bar. But our familiar constraint on Coordination tells us that only constituents belonging to the same Category can be conjoined. Since the second Clause in (43) is clearly an S-bar, then it follows that the first Clause must also be an S-bar — one in which the C(omplementiser) position has been left empty.
gloss: A distinct part of a contract, a will or another legal document.
pos: noun
examples: Mr. Waller adds that when the railway was authorised in 1897, one of the clauses of the Act authorising the transfer of the line to the North British Railway provided that that company should work it in perpetuity, and it was this clause that caused the interim interdict to be granted.
gloss: A constituent (component) of a statement or query.
pos: noun
gloss: To amend (a bill of lading or similar document).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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
There is little authority in English law dealing with the liability of a carrier who unnecessarily clauses a bill of lading.
Related words: close
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: مُرَكَّبٌ إِسْنَادِيّ
roman: murakkabun ʔisnādiyy
lang: Bulgarian
word: подчинено изречение
roman: podčineno izrečenie
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 從句 /从句
roman: cóngjù
lang: Czech
word: věta
lang: Dutch
word: bijzin
lang: Finnish
word: lause
lang: French
word: proposition
lang: German
word: Nebensatz
lang: Hebrew
word: פסוקית
roman: psukít
lang: Hungarian
word: mellékmondat
lang: Irish
word: clásal
lang: Italian
word: proposizione
lang: Japanese
word: 節
roman: setsu
lang: Mongolian
word: гишүүн өгүүлбэр
roman: gišüün ögüülber
lang: Persian
word: فراکرد
roman: farākard
lang: Polish
word: zdanie składowe
lang: Portuguese
word: oração
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: clàs
lang: Tagalog
word: sugnay
lang: Vietnamese
word: vế câu
lang: Vietnamese
word: mệnh đề
lang: Welsh
word: cymal