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phrase Definition

phrase (frāz)

noun

  1. a manner or style of speech or expression; phraseology
  2. a short, colorful or forceful expression
  3. a connected series of movements in a formal dance
  4. Gram. a sequence of two or more words conveying a single thought or forming a distinct part of a sentence but not containing a subject and predicate
  5. Linguis. a group of words that functions as a syntactic unit
  6. Music a short, distinct part or passage, usually of two, four, or eight measures

Etymology: L phrasis, diction < Gr < phrazein, to speak

transitive verb, intransitive verb phrased, phras′·ing

  1. to express in words or in a phrase
  2. Music to mark off or divide (notes) into phrases

phrase Synonyms

phrase

n.

group of words, idiom, expression, slogan, catchword, maxim, wordgroup.

Grammatical phrases include: prepositional, gerund, gerundive, participial, infinitive, noun, adjective, adjectival, adverbial, conjunctive, absolute, attributive, headed, nonheaded, exocentric, endocentric, subordinate, restrictive, nonrestrictive.

phrase Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • coin: Chris first coined the phrase " The Long Tail " in the 2004 Wired article by the same name.
  • borrow: It's expensive, but to borrow a phrase from a rather different product, it does what it says on the tin.
  • repeat: He repeated a phrase in Welsh for a meeting of the Carmarthen Labor Party.
  • translate: Break down complex forms into easier forms Code Generation: translate each phrase into equivalent form.
  • hear: How many times have you heard the phrase, " resting the voice " ?
  • use: Then the price, I've often used the phrase, " You get a lot of bang for your buck " .

Adjective modifier

  • prepositional: Prepositional phrases can modify nouns, e.g. the man in the moon.
  • exact: This is the exact phrase George W Bush used to defeat John Kerry in November 2004.
  • adverbial: See noun phrase, adjectival phrase and adverbial phrase.
  • Latin: Monrovia 56 Which Latin phrase means, in good faith?
  • meaningless: Whether the lack of generally meaningless stock phrases is a risk, I don't know.
  • participial: Examples: Verbs, nouns, conjunctions participial phrase a phrase beginning with a present or past participle.

Modifies a noun

  • ': What do I mean by the phrase ' the inadequate state of the current intellectual vocabulary ' ?
  • quot: Was a favortramontin phrase quot we're your policy includes.

Noun used with modifier

  • noun: The search engine will examine the query, extract nouns and noun phrases and construct a query for the user.
  • keyword: Goto Keywords - Shows how many times each keyword phrase was used in the last month.
  • traffic-pulling: So how is it possible to select a powerful traffic-pulling phrase in this fashion without researching it in real time?
  • catch: There are a few catch phrases thrown in from various other famous films along the way, which add to the comedy.
  • multi-word: Keyphrases are multi-word phrases used in search engine queries.
  • search: What sorts of search phrases do you think they will be typing in on Google?
phrase Quotes

Cricket remains for me the game of games, the sanspareil, the great metaphor, the best marriage ever devisedof mind and body† For meit remainstheProust of pastimes, the subtlest and most poetic, the most past- and-present; whose beauty can lie equally in days, in a whole, or in one tiny phrase, a blinding split second.

—Fowles,John Robert

L'art pour l'art est un vain mot. L'art pour le vrai, l'art pour le beau et le bon, voila'   la religion que je cherche. Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of the true, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I search for.

—Samuelson, Sir Sydney

Long life to thy fame and peace to thy soul, Rob Burns! When I want to express a sentiment which I feel strongly, I find the phrase in Shakespeareöor thee. The blockheads talk of my being like Shakespeareönot fit to tie his brogues.

—Scott, Sir Walter