Parenthesis vs Interlude - What's the difference?
parenthesis | interlude |
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.
An intervening episode, etc.
An entertainment between the acts of a play.
(music) A short piece put between the parts of a longer composition.
To provide with an interlude.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=February 18, author=Tammy La Gorce, title=Between Songs, Interludes That Fall Upon Deaf Ears, work=New York Times
, passage=Jimmy Jam, co-producer of Ms. Jackson’s heavily interluded and influential 1989 album, “Rhythm Nation 1814” (and producer of a forthcoming album by Usher with interludes), also defended them. }}
As nouns the difference between parenthesis and interlude
is that 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 while interlude is an intervening episode, etc.As a verb interlude is
to provide with an interlude.parenthesis
English
Noun
(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?
Synonyms
* parenthetical expression * (brackets) round bracket * paren (abbreviation, for the meaning "round bracket") * See alsoDerived terms
* parenthetic * parenthetic, parenthetical * parenthesise, parenthesizeAnagrams
* * English nouns with irregular pluralsinterlude
English
(wikipedia interlude)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(interlud)citation