Usually means: Group of words with subject.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. clause: Merriam-Webster
  2. clause: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. clause: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. clause: Collins English Dictionary
  5. clause: Vocabulary.com
  6. Clause, clause: Wordnik
  7. clause: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Clause, clause: Wiktionary
  9. clause: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. clause: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. clause: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. clause: Dictionary.com
  13. clause: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. clause: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Clause (disambiguation), Clause (grammar), Clause (linguistics), Clause (logic), Clause: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Clause: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. clause: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. clause: Rhymezone
  19. clause, clause (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. clause: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Clause: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. clause: FreeDictionary.org
  23. clause: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. clause: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. clause: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  3. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. clause: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. Clause (grammar), Clause (linguistics), Clause (syntax), clause: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. clause: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Clause (grammar), Clause (linguistics), Clause (syntax), clause: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Clause (grammar), Clause (linguistics), Clause (syntax), clause: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clause: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Clause: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. clause: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  (grammar) A group of words that contains a subject and a verb.
▸ noun:  (grammar) A verb, its necessary grammatical arguments, and any adjuncts affecting them.
▸ noun:  (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 dependent (subordinate).
▸ noun:  (law) A distinct part of a contract, a will or another legal document.
▸ noun:  (databases) A constituent component of a statement or query.
▸ verb:  (transitive, shipping) To amend (a bill of lading or similar document).
▸ noun:  A surname.

Similar:
article, subclause, proviso, paragraph, provision, amendment, statute, subparagraph, clausula, contract, more...

Opposite:
sentence, paragraph, chapter, book, volume

Types:
independent clause, dependent clause, coordinating clause, adverb clause, noun clause, more...

Phrases:
Commerce Clause, Establishment Clause, relative clause, main clause, subordinate clause, more...

Adjectives:
relative, main, first, last, subordinate, second, due, dependent, equal, independent, sub

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Similar:
article, subclause, proviso, paragraph, provision, amendment, statute, subparagraph, clausula, contract, more...

Opposite:
sentence, paragraph, chapter, book, volume

Types:
independent clause, dependent clause, coordinating clause, adverb clause, noun clause, more...

Phrases:
Commerce Clause, Establishment Clause, relative clause, main clause, subordinate clause, Arbitration clause, that clause, independent clause, dependent clause, escape clause, Contract Clause, Supremacy Clause, more...

Adjectives:
relative, main, first, last, subordinate, second, due, dependent, equal, independent, sub

Colors:
    red,     green,     white,     gold,     silver, more...



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