CLAUSE

clause

(noun) (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate functioning as a part of a complex sentence

article, clause

(noun) a separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will)

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Proper noun

Clause (plural Clauses)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Clause is the 21633^rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1205 individuals. Clause is most common among white (90.95%) individuals.

Anagrams

• Caelus

Etymology

Noun

clause (plural clauses)

(grammar) A verb, its necessary grammatical arguments, and any adjuncts affecting them.

(grammar) 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 (subordinate) dependent.

(legal) A separate part of a contract, a will or another legal document.

Usage notes

In “When it got dark, they went back into the house”, “When it got dark” is a dependent clause within the complete sentence. The independent clause “they went back into the house” could stand alone as a sentence, whereas the dependent clause could not.

Hyponyms

(types of grammatical clauses):

• adjective clause

• adverbial clause

• appositive clause

• comment clause

• comparative clause

• concessive clause

• conditional clause

• conditional mood

• coordinate clause

• defining relative clause

• dependent clause

• finite clause

• if clause

• independent clause

• main clause

• nominal clause

• nondefining relative clause

• non-finite clause

• noun clause

• relative clause

• restrictive clause

• subclause

• subordinate clause

• superordinate clause

• verbless clause

(part of a legal document):

• noncompete clause

Verb

clause (third-person singular simple present clauses, present participle clausing, simple past and past participle claused)

(transitive, shipping) To amend (a bill of lading or similar document).

Anagrams

• Caelus

Source: Wiktionary

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Clause, n. Etym: [F. clause, LL. clausa, equiv. to L. clausula clause, prop., close of claudere to shut, to end. See Close.]

1. A separate portion of a written paper, paragraph, or sentence; an article, stipulation, or proviso, in a legal document. The usual attestation clause to a will. Bouvier.

2. (Gram.)

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

Clause, n. [Obs.]

Definition: See Letters clause or close, under Letter.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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