phrases
中文解釋
wordnet sense
Collocation Usage
Collins Definition
Verb
phrases, plural;
/frāz/,
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phrases, plural;
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Put into a particular form of words
- - it's important to phrase the question correctly
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Divide (music) into phrases in a particular way, esp. in performance
- - original phrasing brought out unexpected aspects of the music
Noun
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A small group of words standing together as a conceptual unit, typically forming a component of a clause
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An idiomatic or short pithy expression
- - his favorite phrase is “it's a pleasure.”
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A group of notes forming a distinct unit within a longer passage
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A group of steps within a longer sequence or dance
Web Definitions:
- (phrase) an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence
- (phrase) give voice: put into words or an expression; "He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees"
- (phrase) divide, combine, or mark into phrases; "phrase a musical passage"
- (phrase) idiom: an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up
- (phrase) dance movements that are linked in a single choreographic sequence
- In grammar, a phrase is a group of words functioning as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence.
- (Phrase (fencing)) Fencing practice and techniques of modern competitive fencing are governed by the FIE, though they developed from conventions developed in 18th- and 19th-century Europe to govern fencing as a martial art and a gentlemanly pursuit. ...
- (Phrase (music)) A musical ' (φράση' — sentence, expression, see also strophe) is a unit of musical meter that has a complete musical sense of its own, built from figures, motifs, and cells and combining to form melodies, periods and larger sections; or the length in which a singer or ...
- (Phrase (rapper)) Harley Webster (born 1981)—better known as Phrase—is an Australian hip hop MC, originating from Melbourne, Victoria.
- (Phrase) A group of related words that lacks either a subject or a predicate or both (e.g. by the door and opening the box.) See Clause
- (Phrase (keyword)) More than one KEYWORD, searched exactly as keyed (all terms required to be in documents, in the order keyed). Enclosing keywords in quotations " " forms a phrase in AltaVista, , and some other search tools. Some times a phrase is called a "character string."
- (Phrase) A relatively short portion of a melodic line which expresses a musical idea, comparable to a line or sentence in poetry.
- (Phrase) A musical idea or passage of music that is short, continuous and unbroken; similar to a musical sentence.
- (Phrase) Half of an eight-measure period. Also, any short figure or passage complete in itself and unbroken in continuity.
- (Phrase) A natural division of the melodic line with a cadence; comparable to a clause or sentence
- (phrase) a group of words within a sentence that forms part of a clause:
- (phrase) two or more words that have a single function and form part of a sentence; phrases can be noun, adjective, adverbial, verb, or prepositional
- (phrase) A set of related actions by both fencers that continues until a hit is scored or action is stopped by the director.
- (Phrase) A small section of a composition comprising a musical thought. Comparable to a sentence in language.
- (PHRASE) a part of a sentence; a few words that describe something without being a complete sentence
- (Phrase) A group of words not containing a subject and its verb (eg on the table, the girl in a red dress).
- (Phrase) A melodic idea that acts as a complete thought, something like a sentence. A melody will contain many phrases, just like a story contains many sentences. This melody has four phrases.
- (Phrase) A melody, harmony, or a combination or the two, lasting from 2 to 8 measures and ending with a cadence.
- (Phrase) A sequence of words, used in Compass searches. If a phrase includes space characters, the entire phrase must be enclosed in quotation marks.
- (Phrase) A short block of movements that develop into a phrase.