Crossword clues for paragraph
paragraph
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Paragraph \Par"a*graph\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Paragraphed; p. pr. & vb. n. Paragraphing.]
To divide into paragraphs; to mark with the character [para].
To express in the compass of a paragraph; as, to paragraph an article.
To mention in a paragraph or paragraphs
Paragraph \Par"a*graph\, n. [F. paragraphe, LL. paragraphus, fr. Gr. para`grafos (sc. grammh`) a line or stroke drawn in the margin, fr. paragra`fein to write beside; para` beside + gra`fein to write. See Para-, and Graphic, and cf. Paraph.]
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Originally, a marginal mark or note, set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, e. g., a change of subject; now, the character [para], commonly used in the text as a reference mark to a footnote, or to indicate the place of a division into sections.
Note: This character is merely a modification of a capital P (the initial of the word paragraph), the letter being reversed, and the black part made white and the white part black for the sake of distinctiveness.
A distinct part of a discourse or writing; any section or subdivision of a writing or chapter which relates to a particular point, whether consisting of one or many sentences. The division is sometimes noted by the mark [para], but usually, by beginning the first sentence of the paragraph on a new line and at more than the usual distance from the margin, also called indenting the line. See indentation[4].
A brief composition complete in one typographical section or paragraph; an item, remark, or quotation comprised in a few lines forming one paragraph; as, a column of news paragraphs; an editorial paragraph.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., from Middle French paragraphe "division of text" (13c., Old French paragrafe), from Medieval Latin paragraphus "sign for start of a new section of discourse" (the sign looked something like a stylized letter -P-), from Greek paragraphos "short stroke in the margin marking a break in sense," also "a passage so marked," literally "anything written beside," from paragraphein "write by the side," from para- "beside" (see para- (1)) + graphein "to write" (see -graphy).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A passage in text that is about a different subject from the preceding text, marked by commencing on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented. 2 (context originally English) A mark or note set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, such as a change of subject. vb. To sort text into paragraphs.
WordNet
n. one of several distinct subdivisions of a text intended to separate ideas; the beginning is usually marked by a new indented line
v. divide into paragraphs, as of text; "This story is well paragraphed"
write about in a paragraph; "All her friends were paragraphed in last Monday's paper"
write paragraphs; work as a paragrapher
Wikipedia
A paragraph (from the Ancient Greek παράγραφος paragraphos, "to write beside" or "written beside") is a self-contained unit of a discourse in writing dealing with a particular point or idea. A paragraph consists of one or more sentences. Though not required by the syntax of any language, paragraphs are usually an expected part of formal writing, used to organize longer prose.
Paragraph is a peer reviewed academic journal that publishes essays and review articles which explore critical theory and its application to literature, other arts, and society. It is published three times a year, in March, July and November, by Edinburgh University Press.
The journal was established in 1983 as the publication of the Modern Critical Theory Group, which was founded to provide a forum to discuss the intellectual movements which came out of Paris in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1986 Oxford University Press took over publication of the journal and since 1991 it has been published by Edinburgh University Press.
Usage examples of "paragraph".
She read the same paragraph twice and then closed her eyes, rubbing her fists against their achy redness.
The entire first paragraph consisted of an inane greeting, but the second paragraph got down to business, relating charges of kidnapping that had been brought against Kenric and the immediate annulment demanded by her family.
Carey gave just one paragraph to the apostrophe, because there was so little to say about it.
In three paragraphs Taft identified more factual errors, misattributions, and oversights than two dozen other scholars had found in their own book reviews.
The answer is that article VI, paragraph 2 was, at its inception, an outgrowth of a major weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
Now, perhaps, the reflections which we should be here inclined to draw, would alike contradict both these conclusions, and would show that these incidents contribute only to confirm the great, useful, and uncommon doctrine, which it is the purpose of this whole work to inculcate, and which we must not fill up our pages by frequently repeating, as an ordinary parson fills his sermon by repeating his text at the end of every paragraph.
The value of writing that paragraph lay, first, in giving her proof that she could do it, and, second, in giving her a benchmark for rethinking and revising the rest of her book.
Other writers -- my friend David Finkel comes to mind -- work with meticulous precision, sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, combining drafting and revising steps.
The semicolon has currently fallen out of fashion with newspapers, the official reason being that readers of newsprint prefer their sentences short, their paragraphs bite-sized and their columns of type uncluttered by wormy squiggles.
But as I idly scanned the paragraph, a flash of thought passed through me with the violence of an electric shock: what if the obscure and horrible race of the hills still survived, still remained haunting wild places and barren hills, and now and then repeating the evil of Gothic legend, unchanged and unchangeable as the Turanian Shelta, or the Basques of Spain?
The barrage was then moved in, paragraph by paragraph, until the vyrus was forced into a single sentence, then a word, then smothered completely.
The wall of dictionaries is then moved in, paragraph by paragraph, until the vyrus is forced into a single sentence, then a word, then smothered completely.
Its paragraph three, subsection thirteen, clause seven you might want to have a wee squint at.
Cantrip by his absence had imposed, it was felt, quite sufficient inconvenience on his fellow juniors without the additional burden of conveying to Henry the unconciliatory message suggested in his final paragraph.
It takes a long time to discover, through details like those of our paragraph, that every part of the apparent lapse is meticulously designed, and to reach at last the solution that Nabokov has not merely described the failure to control happiness and promise, but has made the reader experience this loss of control through sharing in his own unostentatious, apparently undeliberate and unrecognized failure - which is ultimately only an apparent failure.