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phrase
has definitions from the fields of grammar,linguistics,music,fine art
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[ noun ] (grammar,linguistics) an expression forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence but not containing a finite verb
Used in print (John Dos Passos, Midcentury....)I use the phrase advisedly because there was something positively indecent about our relationship . (Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land....)The word `` church '' which turned_up over_and_over_again among Jubal 's words gave him knotty difficulty ; there was no Martian concept to match it - unless one took `` church '' and `` worship '' and `` God '' and `` congregation '' and many other words and equated them to the totality of the only world he had known during growing waiting & & & then forced the concept back into English in_that phrase which had been rejected ( by each differently ) by Jubal , by Mahmoud , by Digby . (S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)In_short , and to borrow an arboreal phrase , slash_timber . She was a living doll and no mistake - the blue-black bang , the wide cheekbones , olive flushed , that betrayed the Cherokee strain in her Midwestern lineage , and the mouth whose only fault , in the novelist 's carping phrase , was that the lower lip was a_trifle too voluptuous . |
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[ verb ] put into words or an expression
Synonyms Examples "He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees" Used in print (Brainard Cheney, "Christianity and the Tragic Vision-Ut...)A perceptive journalist , Sam_Lubell , has phrased it in the title of one of his books as The Revolt Of The Moderates . Related terms express frame ask dogmatize formularize lexicalize word word articulation formulation conceptualization wording |
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[ noun ] (music,fine art) a short musical passage two to four measures long
Synonyms Used in print (High Fidelity, 11:10...)And although Schnabel 's pianism bristles with excitement , it is meticulously faithful to Schubert 's dynamic markings and phrase indications . (Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)But it is characteristic of him , we are told , `` his little artifice '' , to be able to introduce `` into a fairly vulgar and humorous piece of hackwork a sudden phrase of genuine creative art '' . |
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[ noun ] an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up
Synonyms Related terms saying ruralism like_clockwork in_the_lurch out_of_whack formulate |
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