What's the difference between clause and word?

Clause


Definition:

  • (n.) A separate portion of a written paper, paragraph, or sentence; an article, stipulation, or proviso, in a legal document.
  • (n.) A subordinate portion or a subdivision of a sentence containing a subject and its predicate.
  • (n.) See Letters clause / close, under Letter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
  • (2) As of July 1987, 10 states have prohibitory laws, five states have grandmother clauses authorizing practicing midwives under repealed statutes, five states have enabling laws which are not used, and 10 states explicitly permit lay midwives to practice.
  • (3) In the Proposition 8 legal action, the supreme court could decide: • There is a constitutional right, under the equal protection clauses, for gay couples to wed, in which case the laws in 30 states prohibiting same-sex marriages are overturned.
  • (4) This article was amended on 10 May 2016 to correct the wording of Labour’s Clause IV.
  • (5) But in an indicator of Guardiola’s attraction it is understood that Nolito decided to join City from Celta instead, the club triggering his release clause of around £14m and the player agreeing a four-year contract.
  • (6) Chelsea have paid the buyout clause in Costa’s contract – he shares the same agent as Mourinho, Jorge Mendes – and the club are pushing ahead with the rest of their business.
  • (7) And for him, that project has to start with a history lesson: he wants to see Labour relearn the lessons of 20 years ago, when Tony Blair fought off objections from the trade unions to redraft Clause IV of the party’s constitution, which had committed it to securing “common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange”.
  • (8) Manchester United poised to trigger Pedro’s £22m Barcelona release clause Read more Van Gaal wants to strengthen in two areas of the team before the transfer deadline.
  • (9) Thorbjørn Jagland, the secretary general of the Council of Europe, raised concerns about the sunset clause.
  • (10) At the heart of the battle is the "release" clause that was included in Suárez's new contract, signed last August.
  • (11) The results were analysed from the standpoint of grammar of clauses and their informative contents.
  • (12) Asked about Ian Davidson's proposal for a break clause in the contract (see 10.26am) , Coaker said he did not know whether this was feasible.
  • (13) The 26-year-old – currently serving a domestic 10-game ban imposed by the Football Association for biting Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic at the end of last season – could yet force the situation by handing in a formal transfer request , or even asking the Premier League to intervene over the interpretation of the now infamous get-out clause.
  • (14) A simple one clause Abolition of Privacy Bill: "The tort of misuse of private information is hereby abolished" might be thought to be sufficient.
  • (15) Word reading times increased with the cumulative number of new-argument nouns at clause boundaries (as well as at sentence boundaries).
  • (16) Reps are asked to sign a contract that includes the clause: “I will not promote the singing of abusive, offensive, crude or intimidating chants and songs.” The contract also asks reps to confirm that they are “the first representative of the University of Nottingham that new students will meet and therefore recognise that [they are] a role model”.
  • (17) A conscience clause, however, will allow individual clergy to opt out of conducting same-sex marriages.
  • (18) Though we must leave plenty of opt out clauses for religions that don't like gays so they don't have to marry them if they don't want to.
  • (19) "They had taken some Iranian and Pakistani hostages so we had to separate them from the pirate suspects," said Lieutenant Commander Claus Krum, a veteran of five piracy missions.
  • (20) Clubs agreed in principle that if another club pays the buy-out clause they will sell at that total price, meaning that the player does not actually pay the money: it effectively becomes a transfer like any other.

Word


Definition:

  • (n.) The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice, and by custom expressing an idea or ideas; a single component part of human speech or language; a constituent part of a sentence; a term; a vocable.
  • (n.) Hence, the written or printed character, or combination of characters, expressing such a term; as, the words on a page.
  • (n.) Talk; discourse; speech; language.
  • (n.) Account; tidings; message; communication; information; -- used only in the singular.
  • (n.) Signal; order; command; direction.
  • (n.) Language considered as implying the faith or authority of the person who utters it; statement; affirmation; declaration; promise.
  • (n.) Verbal contention; dispute.
  • (n.) A brief remark or observation; an expression; a phrase, clause, or short sentence.
  • (v. i.) To use words, as in discussion; to argue; to dispute.
  • (v. t.) To express in words; to phrase.
  • (v. t.) To ply with words; also, to cause to be by the use of a word or words.
  • (v. t.) To flatter with words; to cajole.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These 150 women, the word acknowledges, were killed for being women.
  • (2) He spoke words of power and depth and passion – and he spoke with a gesture, too.
  • (3) Looks like some kind of dissent, with Ameobi having words with Phil Dowd at the kick off after Liverpool's second goal.
  • (4) In the experiments to be reported here, computer-averaged EMG data were obtained from PCA of native speakers of American English, Japanese, and Danish who uttered test words embedded in frame sentences.
  • (5) This study examined the frequency of occurrence of velar deviations in spontaneous single-word utterances over a 6-month period for 40 children who ranged in age from 1:11 (years:months) to 3:1 at the first observation.
  • (6) In other words, the commitment to the euro is too deep to be forsaken.
  • (7) The government has blamed a clumsily worded press release for the furore, denying there would be random checks of the public.
  • (8) Tony Abbott has refused to concede that saying Aboriginal people who live in remote communities have made a “lifestyle choice” was a poor choice of words as the father of reconciliation issued a public plea to rebuild relations with Indigenous people.
  • (9) The force has given "words of advice" to eight people, all under 25, over messages posted online.
  • (10) Superior memory for the word list was found when the odor present during the relearning session was the same one that had been present at the time of initial learning, thereby demonstrating context-dependent memory.
  • (11) Both of these bills include restrictions on moving terrorists into our country.” The White House quickly confirmed the president would have to sign the legislation but denied this meant that its upcoming plan for closing Guantánamo was, in the words of one reporter, “dead on arrival”.
  • (12) There on the street is Young Jo whose last words were, "I am wery symbolic, sir."
  • (13) Sagan had a way of not wasting words, even playfully.
  • (14) His words earned a stinging rebuke from first lady Michelle Obama , but at a Friday rally in North Carolina he said of one accuser, Jessica Leeds: “Yeah, I’m gonna go after you.
  • (15) In this connection the question about the contribution of each word of length l (l-tuple) to the inhomogeneity of genetic text arises.
  • (16) But mention the words "eurozone crisis" to other Finns, and you could be rewarded with little more than a confused, albeit friendly, smile.
  • (17) But I know the full story and it’s a bit different from what people see.” The full story is heavy on the extremes of emotion and as the man who took a stricken but much-loved club away from its community, Winkelman knows that his part is that of villain; the war of words will rumble on.
  • (18) His words surprised some because of an impression that the US was unwilling to talk about these issues.
  • (19) The phrase “self-inflicted blow” was one he used repeatedly, along with the word “glib” – applied to his Vote Leave opponents.
  • (20) In the 1980s when she began, no newspaper would even print the words 'breast cancer'.

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