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Paragraph
Definitions
- 1 A passage in text that starts on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented, and usually marks a change of topic.
"opening paragraph"
- 2 one of several distinct subdivisions of a text intended to separate ideas; the beginning is usually marked by a new indented line wordnet
- 3 A mark or note set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, such as a change of subject.
- 4 A brief article, notice, or announcement, as in a newspaper.
"Much of its earliest foreign news came direct from the minister, and not seldom in his own hand. Louis XIII. took a keen, perhaps a somewhat childish, interest in the progress of the infant Gazette, and was a frequent contributor, now and then taking his little paragraphs to the printing office himself, and seeing them put into type."
- 5 An offset of 16 bytes in Intel memory architectures.
- 1 To sort text into paragraphs. transitive
- 2 write paragraphs; work as a paragrapher wordnet
- 3 To publish a brief article, notice, or announcement, as in a newspaper. transitive
- 4 write about in a paragraph wordnet
- 5 divide into paragraphs, as of text wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English paragraf, from Middle French paragraphe from Latin paragraphus (“sign for start of a new section of discourse”), from Ancient Greek παράγραφος (parágraphos), from παρά (pará, “beside”) and γράφω (gráphō, “I write”). Doublet of paragraphos.
From Middle English paragraf, from Middle French paragraphe from Latin paragraphus (“sign for start of a new section of discourse”), from Ancient Greek παράγραφος (parágraphos), from παρά (pará, “beside”) and γράφω (gráphō, “I write”). Doublet of paragraphos.
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