Paren vs Parenthesis - What's the difference?
paren | parenthesis |
(informal) A parenthesis (bracket used to enclose parenthetical material in text).
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A clause, phrase or word which is inserted (usually for explanation or amplification) into a passage which is already grammatically complete, and usually marked off with brackets, commas or dashes.
Either of a pair of brackets, especially round brackets, (used to enclose parenthetical material in a text).
(rhetoric) A digression; the use of such digressions.
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(mathematics, logic) Such brackets as used to clarify expressions by grouping those terms affected by a common operator, or to enclose the components of a vector or the elements of a matrix.
Parenthesis is a synonym of paren.
As nouns the difference between paren and parenthesis
is that paren is a parenthesis bracket used to enclose parenthetical material in text while parenthesis is a clause, phrase or word which is inserted (usually for explanation or amplification) into a passage which is already grammatically complete, and usually marked off with brackets, commas or dashes.paren
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(en noun)parenthesis
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(parentheses)- Ryan Bingham'': I thought I was a part of your life. ''Alex Goran'': I thought we signed up for the same thing... I thought our relationship was perfectly clear. You are an escape. You're a break from our normal lives. You're a parenthesis . ''Ryan Bingham : I'm a parenthesis?