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UK
/fɹˈeɪz/
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[ US /ˈfɹeɪz/ ]
[ US /ˈfɹeɪz/ ]
VERB
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put into words or an expression
He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees -
divide, combine, or mark into phrases
phrase a musical passage
NOUN
- a short musical passage
- an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up
- an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence
- dance movements that are linked in a single choreographic sequence
How To Use phrase In A Sentence
- I've noticed a lot of people larding their speech with that phrase lately.
- So maybe BP isn't the best example yet, but clearly businesses that embrace principles of social entrepreneurship--discovering how to "unstick" society when it has gotten stuck, by changing the system--are having widespread impact in making the new buzzphrase "social value" the litmus test for success for not only social entrepreneurs but profit-oriented businesses, too. Marian Salzman: Reinvention, Part II
- We the Muslims unequivocally condemn abuse of the phrase Allahu Akbar and call on the imams and the scholars to recondition appropriate use of the phrase. Mike Ghouse: Allahu Akbar Is Abused
- I have not been a learner of foreign languages for any significant lengths of time to be able to introspect usefully for the benefit of your discussion, but I have noted how on those few occasions, the change of costumes and locale has a truly powerful effect on my motivation, my willingness to be playful and adventurous, to take risks and experiment with new or old-new phrases and words. I is for Identity « An A-Z of ELT
- Or consider the college piano student, carefully groomed to taper each Mozartean phrase just so, and deliver sharp accents in Bartok.
- Stealing away, (whence, I suppose, the ironical phrase of trusty Trojan to this day,) like a thief — pretendedly indeed at the command of the gods; but could that be, when the errand he went upon was to rob other princes, not only of their dominions, but of their lives? — Clarissa Harlowe
- However, I have no idea where this phrase originated and why we use it.
- Nixon came up with the phrase 'growth recession': even when things are not falling, it's not going to feel good. So what do we do now, chancellor?
- The term Great Depression was a perfect fit in the 1930s; nobody has coined a phrase to properly describe our current plight. Dispatch.com: RSS
- In this high opinion of his own rank, he was greatly fortified by his ideas of the military profession, which, in his phrase, made a valiant cavalier a camarade to an emperor. A Legend of Montrose
