Either of two punctuation marks (or) used to enclose textual material.

Roget 198: interval, interspace^†; separation etc. 44; break, gap, opening; hole etc. 260; chasm, hiatus, caesura; interruption, interregnum; interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure^†, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha.    gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm; gulf; inlet, frith^†, strait, gully; pass; furrow etc. 259; abra^†; barranca^†, barranco^†; clove [U.S.], gulch [U.S.], notch [U.S.]; yawning gulf; hiatus maxime [Lat.], hiatus valde deflendus [Lat.]; parenthesis etc. (interjacence) 228^†; void etc. (absence) 187; incompleteness etc. 53.    [interval of time] period etc. 108; interim (time) 106.    ... show more

Roget 218: inversion, eversion, subversion, reversion, retroversion, introversion; contraposition etc. 237^†; contrariety etc. 14; reversal; turn of the tide.    overturn; somersault, somerset; summerset^†; culbute^†; revulsion; pirouette.    transposition, transposal^†, anastrophy^†, metastasis, hyperbaton^†, anastrophe^†, hysteron proteron [Gr.], hypallage^†, synchysis^†, tmesis^†, parenthesis; metathesis; palindrome.    pronation and supination [Anat.].    ... show more

Roget 228: interposition, interjacence^†, intercurrence^†, intervenience^†, interlocation^†, interdigitation, interjection, interpolation, interlineation, interspersion, intercalation.    [interposition at a fine-grained level] interpenetration; permeation; infiltration.    [interposition by one person in another's affairs, at the intervenor's initiative] intervention, interference; intrusion, obtrusion; insinuation.    insertion etc. 300; dovetailing; embolism.    intermediary, intermedium^†; go between, bodkin^†, intruder, interloper; parenthesis, episode, flyleaf.    partition, septum, diaphragm; midriff; dissepiment^†; party wall, panel, room divider.    halfway house.    ... show more

Roget 70: discontinuity; disjunction etc. 44; anacoluthon^†; interruption, break, fracture, flaw, fault, crack, cut; gap etc. (interval) 198; solution of continuity, caesura; broken thread; parenthesis, episode, rhapsody, patchwork; intermission; alternation etc. (periodicity) 138; dropping fire.    ... show more

Dutch: haakjes, parenthese
Polish: parenteza, paranteza

A message that departs from the main subject.

synonyms: aside, digression, divagation, excursus.

Dutch: terzijde
Polish: dygresja