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Meaning phase meaning

What does phase mean?
Definitions in simple English

phase Noun

— A phase is stage in a process. We will look at very basic ideas during the first phase of training. As the war enters its final phase, the role of the UN will probably become more important. Teenagers often go through a phase of being attracted to someone of the same sex. — If things are in phase, they are working, moving, or changing together.

phase Verb

— If you phase something in, you introduce it step by step. Over the next few years, all farm support was slowly phased out.

phase

— noun (= stage) any distinct time period in a sequence of events we are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejected — noun (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary the reaction occurs in the liquid phase of the system — noun a particular point in the time of a cycle; measured from some arbitrary zero and expressed as an angle — verb adjust so as to be in a synchronized condition he phased the intake with the output of the machine — noun (astronomy) the particular appearance of a body's state of illumination (especially one of the recurring shapes of the part of Earth's moon that is illuminated by the sun) the full phase of the moon — verb arrange in phases or stages phase a withdrawal

Synonyms phase synonyms

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phase English » English

stage period step aspect point level form age term time season grade epoch degree chapter time period status state situation side phase angle order gradation era zone watershed turn topology tide synchronize stretch stint steps station standard stadium space soil phase site sequence segment sector section respect regime reach rank portion point of view phenomenon

Topics phase topics

What do people use phase to talk about?
Universe, creation Sky Sun

Moon
Person Life

Stage of life
States Quantity Whole, complete

Part
States Time

Aspectual time

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    phase aspect
States Time Aspectual time

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Conjugation phase conjugation

How do you conjugate phase?

phase · verb

Examples phase examples

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Simple sentences

Cancer can be cured easily if it is found in its first phase.
The first phase of construction has been completed.
The negotiation has entered upon a new phase.
I have two three-phase power generators in my cellar.
In the development of Lojban, efforts were consistently made since the initial phase to keep the language culturally neutral.
We are in a phase of dramatic change.
She's just going through a phase.
Phase one is complete.
The negotiations stepped into a crucial phase.
The crisis is entering a dangerous phase.

Movie subtitles

That was just a phase he was going through.
What's a phase?
I'm going through a phase!
What phase will he be going through?
She's in the dangerous phase.
It's a phase.
The initial phase is an encircling manoeuvre, thus!
I say atonality is just a passing phase in jazz music.
The record business was neglected during this phase, much to my regret.
Finally, there was only one phase of the entertainment industry left. so we went there.
Don't judge by what's going on today. It's a passing phase.
It's just a phase.
Don't say it's just a phase.
I think the world may be going through a phase the way I was with Mother.
I never though it would end and that it was simply a phase in my life.
There is a two-phase process using a drug and a mechanical device.
When director James Cameron selected the 86-year-old Gloria for a leading role in Titanic in 1996, yet another phase of her careers began.
Far away from the eyes of inquisitive, gossipy Washington. in secluded, country estates requisitioned by the government. O77 candidates entered phase one of training.
I've got a couple of things to say to you before you begin the next phase of your training.
These maps cover only one small phase of the project. known to us as Plan B.
That's what I call the active phase.
I am going to pay your salary to Julia during this unfortunate phase.
When the moon changed phase.
Mr. Habekuss is in the fine phase.
During the pre-oedipal phase, only the mother should nourish her child. - I've already told you.
Phase two off standby, operational.
Phase two operational.
The order you heard me give to make phase two operational was an order to fire those missiles the moment that bird is spotted anywhere!
He's passing gallantly through the chorus girl phase now, isn't he?
I didn't have that phase.
Susie's going into her differential phase.
According to the official reports. the next phase of the life-and-death drama. occurred May 10 in Washington. at a hush-hush supersecret meeting. of the Arctic theater war room.
All sensitive young souls go through this phase.
It is only a passing phase. It is only a stage we are going through. It will be discarded sooner or later.
The ritual began in this courtroom, swept over the land like a raging, roaring disease! What was going to be a passing phase had become the way of life.
What it always means: an inevitable phase in revolutionary warfare.
Phase one calls for miniaturizing a submarine, with crew and surgical team, and injecting it into the carotid artery.
Phase one.

News and current affairs

Closure of the last remaining reactor at Chernobyl, I believe, must mark the beginning of a new phase of cooperation with the European Union and G-7 countries.
Memory of these 18 days is so crowded that it is difficult to separate one event from another, one phase from the next: the dramatic, the moving, the bizarre, and the unreal from the bathetic.
Meanwhile, Islamic cultures entered a historical phase in which science was equated with Western influence and eschewed.
These measures would be sufficient to calm markets and bring the acute phase of the crisis to an end.
Will convergence remain rapid, or will it be a passing phase in world economic history?
I am convinced that the hardest phase of the fighting will end shortly after the elections.
But now, just as the West began to understand decades ago that the natural environment has limits, China is showing the first signs of entering a post-industrial phase.
China realizes that it has entered a phase of economic growth that is imposing enormous - and unsustainable - demands on the environment.
Achieving this ambitious agenda by 2025 would usher in the last phase in the quest for a nuclear-free world, and requires, first and foremost, political conditions that reliably rule out regional or global wars of aggression.
In the first phase of these popular uprisings, those who had been politically and economically excluded began to demand inclusion and participation.
Now a second phase is underway, marked by a serious effort to divest the old military establishment of its power.
The Fed waited too long to start the normalization process, and, because it was more aggressive in lowering rates in the downward phase of the interest-rate cycle, it has had to be more aggressive in raising them in the upward phase.
A ban on battery cages in the EU was eventually adopted in 1999, but, to ensure that producers would have plenty of time to phase out the equipment in which they had invested, its implementation was delayed until January 1, 2012.
The most recent phase of the advanced economies' frenzied search for growth took different forms.
And the household sector will be only partly through its painful de-leveraging phase.
That is why the world must not remain focused on the already-lost first phase.
Instead, the world must focus on the second phase, because it is weapons potential that is the looming danger, and it is here that internationally mandated mechanisms for oversight and supervision exist.
This is a fortunate coincidence, because shale-gas production would probably make it politically easier to phase out Poland's economically and environmentally irrational subsidies to local coal production (and consumption).
PRINCETON - The most recent phase of the financial crisis, since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, has been characterized by large bank losses and the continued threat of bank collapses.
It matters to countries that have decided to phase out nuclear power, because their plants will continue to operate for decades and will need to be decommissioned, with nuclear waste stored safely.
This question stands out in view of Chinese public opinion in the latter phase of the Tibet crisis.
The third phase was one of economic catch-up, which, unlike the first two phases, has not really been successful in Hungary, which today may even be falling back.
Similarly, the government will phase out the hukou system of residency permits that now prevents migrants to the cities from obtaining full health care and education benefits.
Rather, it means opting for a controlled transition to a post-revolutionary phase in which economic modernization and international integration might usher in greater political change in the future.
Their future is further clouded by the fact that the United States and the European Union will phase out their apparel quotas next year, potentially reducing quota-hopping investment in South Africa and the broader region.
Moreover, the role and attitude of a rising China must be assessed on a regional basis, particularly given that the long-standing dispute over islets in the South China Sea may be entering a new phase.
Courtship gave way to estrangement during the second phase, as US policy for much of the 1960's sought to isolate China.
The third phase began immediately after the 1969 Sino-Soviet military clashes, with the US actively seeking to exploit the rift in the Communist world by aligning China with its anti-Soviet strategy.

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