phrase
IPA: frˈeɪz
noun
- A short written or spoken expression.
- (grammar) A word or, more commonly, a group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence, usually consisting of a head, or central word, and elaborating words.
- (music) A small section of music in a larger piece.
- (archaic) A mode or form of speech; diction; expression.
- (dance) A short individual motion forming part of a choreographed dance.
verb
- (transitive) To express (an action, thought or idea) by means of particular words.
- (intransitive, music) To perform a passage with the correct phrasing.
- (transitive, music) To divide into melodic phrases.
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Examples of "phrase" in Sentences
- That last three word phrase is leaden and bathetic.
- The phrase is a pejorative term in the United States.
- The term comes from a colloquial phrase of understatement.
- Phrase is important, but cognition of the sentence is the priority.
- This would be a malapropism except that it is a phrase and not a word.
- The entire phrase is unnecessary to convey the meaning of the sentence.
- Such phrases satisfy parsimony and seem to interrupt the sentence's flow.
- It is phrased in two sentences in order to condescend the status of the car.
- Interrogative words always are the first constituents of a sentence or phrase.
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