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Phrase   /freɪz/   Listen
Phrase

noun
1.
An expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence.
2.
A short musical passage.  Synonym: musical phrase.
3.
An expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up.  Synonyms: idiom, idiomatic expression, phrasal idiom, set phrase.
4.
Dance movements that are linked in a single choreographic sequence.
verb
(past & past part. phrased; pres. part. phrasing)
1.
Put into words or an expression.  Synonyms: articulate, formulate, give voice, word.
2.
Divide, combine, or mark into phrases.



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"Phrase" Quotes from Famous Books



... ludicrous manner. Afterward they enjoyed prolonged spasms of mirth, their cachinnations carrying far out over the flat lands disturbing inoffensive truck gardeners in their sleep. They cried "S-o-m-e time!" so often that the phrase struck even their ...
— The Lookout Man • B. M. Bower
... the undertaker by the arm, and led him into the building. Mr. Sowerberry was closeted with the board for five minutes; and it was arranged that Oliver should go to him that evening 'upon liking'—a phrase which means, in the case of a parish apprentice, that if the master find, upon a short trial, that he can get enough work out of a boy without putting too much food into him, he shall have him for a term of years, to do ...
— Oliver Twist • Charles Dickens
... intended to explain their captions," she said. "These picture language-books, the sort we use in the Service—little line drawings, with a word or phrase under them." ...
— Omnilingual • H. Beam Piper
... we know so little, concerns us much less than the author of the works, of which it only rests with ourselves to know everything. I have above classed Fielding as one of the four Atlantes of English verse and prose, and I doubt not that both the phrase and the application of it to him will meet with question and demur. I have only to interject, as the critic so often has to interject, a request to the court to take what I say in the sense in which I say it. I do not mean that Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, and ...
— Joseph Andrews Vol. 1 • Henry Fielding
... consciously beautiful. This beauty is intensified in the description of the still more beautiful garden. But the real dividing point of the essay occurs when Lamb approaches his elder brother. He unmistakably marks the point with the phrase: "Then, in somewhat a more heightened tone, I told how," etc. Henceforward the style increases in fervour and in solemnity until the culmination of the essay is reached: "And while I stood gazing, both the children gradually grew fainter to my view, receding ...
— Literary Taste: How to Form It • Arnold Bennett


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