"( )" meaning in All languages combined

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Punctuation [Burmese]

Head templates: {{head|my|punctuation mark|cat2=matched pairs|tr=-}} ( )
  1. sometimes used to enclose numbers to distinguish from letters Categories (topical): Burmese matched pairs, Burmese punctuation marks
    Sense id: en-(_)-my-punct-hbtDcVTG Categories (other): Burmese entries with incorrect language header

Punctuation [Chinese]

Head templates: {{head|zh|punctuation mark|cat2=matched pairs|head=( )}} ( )
  1. Encloses the pronunciation to a character the reader may not necessarily know.
    Sense id: en-(_)-zh-punct-1ksMCe5A
  2. (Internet slang) Used to provide a deeper or second meaning to a phrase. Probably from Japanese 義(ぎ)訓(くん) (gikun, “invented reading”). Compare English read (“used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term”). Tags: Internet
    Sense id: en-(_)-zh-punct-6R2~yVDM Categories (other): Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, Chinese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 7 18 19 21 17 18
  3. (Internet slang) Added to the end of a message, with short text inside, as a sort of tone indicator. Tags: Internet Synonyms (tone indicator): single left parentheses
    Sense id: en-(_)-zh-punct-wtx~Z6xa Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 7 18 19 21 17 18 Disambiguation of 'tone indicator': 4 11 52 10 11 12
  4. (Internet slang, with no content inside) Used to censor vulgar, profane or sensitive words or characters. Compare x in Latin alphabet. A formal way to censor words in Chinese is using × instead. Tags: Internet Categories (topical): Chinese matched pairs, Chinese punctuation marks
    Sense id: en-(_)-zh-punct-pKhswFET Disambiguation of Chinese matched pairs: 11 10 10 40 7 21 Disambiguation of Chinese punctuation marks: 10 13 14 29 12 22 Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 7 18 19 21 17 18
  5. (Internet slang, by extension, with no content inside) Added to the end of a message to indicate a lighthearted or joking tone. Tags: Internet, broadly
    Sense id: en-(_)-zh-punct-kmiJvSkB Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 7 18 19 21 17 18
  6. (Internet slang, by extension, with no content inside) Added to the end of a message, either left parenthesis only or both, used in place of ellipses …… (which can be read as indecisiveness) to imply an abrupt and intentional end to an incomplete sentence. Tags: Internet, broadly
    Sense id: en-(_)-zh-punct-kJ-1UfX- Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 7 18 19 21 17 18
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: 寫作……讀作…… (english: written as… but read as…) [literally], 写作……读作…… (english: written as… but read as…) [literally]

Punctuation [Japanese]

Head templates: {{head|ja|punctuation mark|cat2=matched pairs|cat3=tone indicators|head=( )}} ( )
  1. Used as a plaintext fallback of ruby: encloses a regular or traditional pronunciation to kanji (sometimes other types of words, e.g. katakana in parentheses following an English word) that the readers may not necessarily know how to read. Categories (topical): Japanese punctuation marks
    Sense id: en-(_)-ja-punct-D-zxHa1Z Disambiguation of Japanese punctuation marks: 13 15 27 24 21 Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 13 23 23 21 19
  2. Used as a plaintext fallback of ruby: encloses an invented reading or a pronunciation borrowed from another language, which follows usually but not necessarily a kanji word, to conveys the word's deeper or second meaning (see 義(ぎ)訓(くん) (gikun)). Categories (topical): Japanese punctuation marks
    Sense id: en-(_)-ja-punct-8~GfJo8U Disambiguation of Japanese punctuation marks: 13 15 27 24 21 Categories (other): Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, Japanese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 13 23 23 21 19
  3. (Internet slang, with no content inside) Used to censor vulgar, profane or sensitive words or characters. A formal way to censor words in Japanese is using × or ○ instead. Compare 自主規制 in Japanese and x in Latin alphabet. Tags: Internet Categories (topical): Japanese matched pairs, Japanese punctuation marks
    Sense id: en-(_)-ja-punct-btrT5zmE Disambiguation of Japanese matched pairs: 13 13 37 20 17 Disambiguation of Japanese punctuation marks: 13 15 27 24 21 Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 13 23 23 21 19
  4. (Internet slang) Added to the end of a message, with short text inside (the right parenthesis is optional), as a sort of tone indicator. Tags: Internet Categories (topical): Japanese punctuation marks Synonyms (tone indicator): single left parentheses, none
    Sense id: en-(_)-ja-punct-gwiHXqcX Disambiguation of Japanese punctuation marks: 13 15 27 24 21 Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese tone indicators Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 13 23 23 21 19 Disambiguation of Japanese tone indicators: 10 13 17 46 14 Disambiguation of 'tone indicator': 8 11 11 57 14
  5. (Internet slang, by extension, with no content inside) Added to the end of a message to indicate a lighthearted or joking tone (the right parenthesis is optional),. Tags: Internet, broadly Categories (topical): Japanese punctuation marks
    Sense id: en-(_)-ja-punct-VU97n54E Disambiguation of Japanese punctuation marks: 13 15 27 24 21 Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 13 23 23 21 19
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: , (ry

Punctuation [Mon]

Head templates: {{head|mnw|punctuation mark|cat2=matched pairs|tr=-}} ( )
  1. sometimes used to enclose digits to distinguish from letters Categories (topical): Mon matched pairs, Mon punctuation marks
    Sense id: en-(_)-mnw-punct-Y-MIHQkK Categories (other): Mon entries with incorrect language header

Punctuation [Translingual]

Forms: parentheses [English, name], round bracket s [English, name]
Head templates: {{head|mul|punctuation mark|English name|parentheses|or|round brackets|or||or||cat2=matched pairs|f1lang=en|f1nolink=|f2lang=en|f2nolink=|f3lang=en|f3nolink=|f4lang=en|f4nolink=|head=( )|head2=|sc=|sort=}} ( ) (English name parentheses or round brackets), {{mul-punctuation mark|cat2=matched pairs|head=( )|name=parentheses|name2=round brackets}} ( ) (English name parentheses or round brackets)
  1. Encloses supplemental information.
    Sense id: en-(_)-mul-punct-T~TPR1Do
  2. Encloses a commentary.
    Sense id: en-(_)-mul-punct-ncxZdLxu
  3. Encloses optional variants or variant elements of words, inflections, spellings or pronunciations.
    Sense id: en-(_)-mul-punct-EPRT0yQj
  4. Encloses narration.
    Sense id: en-(_)-mul-punct-P488sqgB
  5. Encloses a letter or number starting an item in a list.
    Sense id: en-(_)-mul-punct-tn4cAazG
  6. (papyrology, epigraphy) Encloses restored elements of text that were (intentionally) omitted by the original scribe as an abbreviation. Synonyms (parenthetical phrase): — —
    Sense id: en-(_)-mul-punct-7zkeq8Wl Topics: epigraphy, history, human-sciences, literature, media, papyrology, publishing, sciences Disambiguation of 'parenthetical phrase': 7 7 14 9 5 25 17 15
  7. (phonetics) A transcription delimiter for silent utterances. It may enclose a transcription of a mouthed utterance derived from lip-reading, such as (ʃːː), or of the length of a pause between utterances, such as (1.3 sec). (...), (..) and (.) are used for increasingly brief pauses. Categories (topical): Phonetics
    Sense id: en-(_)-mul-punct-~sLSTe0C Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonetics, phonology, sciences
  8. Used as quotation marks (e.g. in Arabic). Categories (topical): Translingual matched pairs, Translingual punctuation marks
    Sense id: en-(_)-mul-punct-Mr9SmHLR Disambiguation of Translingual matched pairs: 2 2 3 7 3 10 7 19 5 4 3 13 3 3 4 2 10 Disambiguation of Translingual punctuation marks: 3 3 3 6 3 8 5 21 4 6 4 11 3 2 5 3 10 Categories (other): English links with redundant wikilinks, Translingual entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English links with redundant wikilinks: 4 4 4 4 4 9 5 13 4 9 5 5 4 3 7 4 11 Disambiguation of Translingual entries with incorrect language header: 4 4 4 5 3 10 5 12 5 8 5 5 5 4 8 4 10
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: to, toi [Lojban], apostrophe (alt: '; ’), curly brackets, brace (alt: { }) [US], square bracket, bracket (alt: [ ]) [US], colon (alt: :), comma (alt: ,), dash (alt: ‒; –; —; ―), ellipsis (alt: ), exclamation mark (alt: !), fraction slash (alt: ), guillemet (alt: « »; ‹ ›), hyphen (alt: -; ‐), interpunct (alt: ·), interrobang (alt: ) [rare], bracket, parentheses (US, Canada) (alt: ( )), full stop, period (alt: .) [Canada, US], question mark (alt: ?), quotation marks (alt: ‘ ’ ‚; „) [formal], quotation marks (alt: "; ') [informal] [computing, engineering, mathematics, sciences, physical-sciences, natural-sciences], semicolon (alt: ;), slash, stroke (alt: /) [UK], space (alt: ] [)

Symbol [Translingual]

Head templates: {{head|mul|symbol|cat2=matched pairs|head=( )}} ( )
  1. (mathematics) Encloses a mathematical phrase that has increased precedence in terms of operators. Categories (topical): Mathematics Related terms (mathematical precedence): { }
    Sense id: en-(_)-mul-symbol-CvrLGI5c Topics: mathematics, sciences Disambiguation of 'mathematical precedence': 51 7 8 4 6 6 7 3 6
  2. (mathematics) Denotes the greatest common divisor of two integers. Categories (topical): Mathematics
    Sense id: en-(_)-mul-symbol-g6c4qvCD Topics: mathematics, sciences
  3. (mathematics) Denotes a coordinate. Categories (topical): Mathematics
    Sense id: en-(_)-mul-symbol-1-qU2pPK Topics: mathematics, sciences
  4. (regular expressions) Defines a marked subexpression, to be matched using the backslash (\1, \2, etc.) Categories (topical): Regular expressions
    Sense id: en-(_)-mul-symbol-ZQs8KwdY
  5. (programming) Used when defining a new function, enclosing the list of parameters. Categories (topical): Programming
    Sense id: en-(_)-mul-symbol-aWK9gliI Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, programming, sciences
  6. (programming) Used when calling an existing function, enclosing the list of arguments. Categories (topical): Programming
    Sense id: en-(_)-mul-symbol-7RskuF6H Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, programming, sciences
  7. (programming) Used with some expressions and conditionals, like "if", "switch", "for", "while", etc., in certain programming languages. Categories (topical): Programming
    Sense id: en-(_)-mul-symbol-YRUhikxz Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, programming, sciences
  8. (chemistry) Encloses a repeated unit in a polymer. Categories (topical): Chemistry
    Sense id: en-(_)-mul-symbol-nnbGM8lo Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
  9. (accounting) Indicates that a number is negative in place of a minus sign. Categories (topical): Accounting
    Sense id: en-(_)-mul-symbol-6h0NfF7y Categories (other): English links with redundant wikilinks Disambiguation of English links with redundant wikilinks: 4 4 4 4 4 9 5 13 4 9 5 5 4 3 7 4 11 Topics: accounting, business, finance
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: [ ], ((( )))

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      "alt": "⁄",
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "full stop"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
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          "text": "Sen. John McCain (R., Arizona) spoke at length.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Encloses supplemental information."
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      "id": "en-(_)-mul-punct-T~TPR1Do",
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          "text": "I gave it to Fred (who was going there anyways) before I left.",
          "type": "example"
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          "english": "Here, s is a shorthand for the plural dogs.",
          "text": "Go get the dog(s)"
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          "english": "Here, re is an optional prefix re-.",
          "text": "You should (re)write that story."
        },
        {
          "english": "Here, u is an alternative spelling (color/colour).",
          "text": "Blue is my favo(u)rite colo(u)r."
        },
        {
          "text": "A variable with persistence that is currently above (below) its mean will tend not go below (above) its mean for some time.",
          "type": "example"
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        {
          "text": "(S)he likes dogs.",
          "type": "example"
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        {
          "text": "Antarctica /ænˈtɑɹ(k)tɪkə/, terminator /ˈtɜːmɪneɪtə(ɹ)/"
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          "english": "Scott: It's... It's for you. I wrote a song.\n(weird pause)\nEnvy: Why?",
          "ref": "2006, “Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness”, in Scott Pilgrim, volume 3 (in English)",
          "text": "Envy: What's this for? Is this for the band?",
          "type": "quotation"
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        "Encloses narration."
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        {
          "text": "(1) New York, (2) London, (3) Paris."
        },
        {
          "text": "(A) New York, (B) London, (C) Paris."
        },
        {
          "english": "Wallace: No, because (A) you'll take half an hour to decide what you want, and (B) no sugar for you!!",
          "ref": "2006, “Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness”, in Scott Pilgrim, volume 3 (in English)",
          "text": "Scott: Can I get some free candy? Can you make it happen? Just some chocolate, maybe?",
          "type": "quotation"
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        "(papyrology, epigraphy) Encloses restored elements of text that were (intentionally) omitted by the original scribe as an abbreviation."
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          "_dis1": "7 7 14 9 5 25 17 15",
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          "english": "close friend (rival)",
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        {
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      "id": "en-(_)-ja-punct-VU97n54E",
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        [
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        "(Internet slang, by extension, with no content inside) Added to the end of a message to indicate a lighthearted or joking tone (the right parenthesis is optional),."
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        [
          "Internet",
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          "slang",
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        [
          "Internet",
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          "slang",
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        "Added to the end of a message, either left parenthesis only or both, used in place of ellipses …… (which can be read as indecisiveness) to imply an abrupt and intentional end to an incomplete sentence."
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        [
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          "slang"
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        "(Internet slang, by extension, with no content inside) Added to the end of a message, either left parenthesis only or both, used in place of ellipses …… (which can be read as indecisiveness) to imply an abrupt and intentional end to an incomplete sentence."
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          "slang",
          "slang"
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        [
          "Internet",
          "Internet"
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          "slang",
          "slang"
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        "(Internet slang) Added to the end of a message, with short text inside (the right parenthesis is optional), as a sort of tone indicator."
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          "text": "(1) New York, (2) London, (3) Paris."
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          "text": "(A) New York, (B) London, (C) Paris."
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        "Used when calling an existing function, enclosing the list of arguments."
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          "programming",
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      "categories": [
        "mul:Programming"
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        {
          "text": "if (x > 7) then printf \"success!\" end"
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      "glosses": [
        "Used with some expressions and conditionals, like \"if\", \"switch\", \"for\", \"while\", etc., in certain programming languages."
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        "(programming) Used with some expressions and conditionals, like \"if\", \"switch\", \"for\", \"while\", etc., in certain programming languages."
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          "text": "glutaraldehyde = CH₂(CH₂CHO)₂"
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        "Encloses a repeated unit in a polymer."
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        "(chemistry) Encloses a repeated unit in a polymer."
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        "mul:Accounting"
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          "text": "(20)"
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        "Indicates that a number is negative in place of a minus sign."
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        "(accounting) Indicates that a number is negative in place of a minus sign."
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        "accounting",
        "business",
        "finance"
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}

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