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Meaning phrase meaning

What does phrase mean?
Definitions in simple English

phrase

A phrase is a short expression. Sheela liked to use that particular phrase whenever she disagreed with something. A phrase is a group of words. Together, they act as a single unit in a sentence. Within a noun phrase (NP), adjectives function as modifiers.

phrase

When you phrase an idea, you express it in words.

phrase

an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence a short musical passage (= formulate, word) 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 dance movements that are linked in a single choreographic sequence (= idiom) an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up

Synonyms phrase synonyms

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Topics phrase topics

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Conjugation phrase conjugation

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phrase · verb

Examples phrase examples

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Simple sentences

This phrase will be translated.
You know the phrase, we reap what we sow. I have sown the wind and this is my storm.
The phrase is meant to insult people.
How is this phrase to be interpreted?
What is the meaning of this phrase?
You can omit the preposition in this phrase.
I wonder what this phrase means.
Look up the phrase in your dictionary.
He explained the literal meaning of the phrase.
What's the meaning of this phrase?
Ph.D. is an abbreviation of the Latin phrase - philosophiae doctoratum.
She explained the literal meaning of the phrase.
The Greeks invented the comma, not for their literature but for their actors, to warn them to take a deep breath in preparation of an upcoming long phrase; thus a comma represents a pause.
Can you phrase your answer in an understandable manner?
Of course this phrase is only used by older people.
There's no need to try to translate a phrase word-for-word.
You could have omitted that last phrase in your letter.
That's a very common phrase where I come from.
This phrase should only be used colloquially, never in a formal setting.

Movie subtitles

Excuse me, sir, but what exactly does that phrase mean?
That's the phrase I've been searching for all evening.
I seem to have heard that phrase before.
I could never phrase anything in person as beautifully as I have in this note.
There are 100 ways of approaching it. but I feel it can best be said in one simple phrase.
They'd phrase it more delicately.
To quote an old Latin phrase.
You must meet my mother. She'd like that phrase.
In a manner so serious as this, we must make sure. of every point, explore every avenue, and, in fact, if I may coin a phrase, leave no stone unturned.
A pretty phrase, milady.
She is, to coin a phrase, very often uncertain and coy and hard to please.
It's a standard phrase.
What gift for a phrase you have!
There are only 8 little letters in this phrase, you will find, but they mean a lot more than all the other words combined.
That's just a catch phrase, sentimental nonsense.
I will, with this simple phrase, induce diverse feelings inside you.
Let me phrase it more delicately.
I think that is the American phrase.
They call us drunkards and, with swinish phrase, soil our reputation.
That's an ill phrase, a vile phrase.
Latin, I suppose. You must meet my mother. She'd like that phrase.
And in fact, if I may coin a phrase, leave no stone unturned.
I wonder who ever thought up that little phrase. I know one thing.
Did you read that phrase somewhere?
So he knows a phrase or two.
Did you hear that phrase? I hear myself saying things like that.
You were saying, sir, that this phrase is a poem.
He wrote the phrase you have in your hand.
In one phrase you sum up the whole tragedy of desire!
I hoped he'd phrase it something like that.
You should avoid that phrase.

News and current affairs

Perhaps Eban was too urbane, too much of a scholar and gentleman to be able to make it - in Disraeli's phrase - to the top of the greasy pole.
That this Arab renaissance - to use the phrase of the great Palestinian scholar George Antonius - did not take place may have been Eban's greatest disappointment.
The cartoon caught the English fancy, and created a catch-phrase still in use today, although it is usually misunderstood and misused.
To borrow a phrase from the financial world, the euro is too big to fail.
The end of ideology has been invoked so often that one hesitates to repeat the phrase.
I have often thought that cricket is really, in the sociologist Ashis Nandy's phrase, an Indian game accidentally discovered by the British.
That simple phrase neatly encapsulates Liu's peaceful 20-year-resistance to China's government, which began with a hunger strike in Tiananmen Square.
That phrase is often derided as phony and manipulative--except by those who have lived in societies where sales clerks ignore customers.
They often think this phrase highlights the central role of universities in society.
In that case hope and history would rhyme, as he put it in a celebrated phrase.
It makes little sense to declare war on a tactic, and experience has proven that the terminology merely reinforces the narrative that bin Laden seeks to promote, which is why Britain now avoids the phrase.
That phrase is on everyone's tongue nowadays.
Migration is the side of globalization that, to borrow Oscar Wilde's phrase, dare not speak its name.
The phrase has no deeper meaning.
When that phrase was inserted in the Treaty, it appeared as if the hurdles to effective European banking supervision could hardly be set higher.
By that magnificent phrase, the UN's founders meant that human rights, development, and security are mutually interdependent.
LONDON - We all remember one phrase from the first presidential campaign by a Clinton.
Indeed, she looks more like a Korean Margaret Thatcher - a lady not for turning, in Thatcher's famous phrase, and with clearly thought-through political principles animating her actions.
The nuclear crisis should be resolved through negotiations, before, in US President Barack Obama's phrase, the window closes.
Both the phrase and his lack of action make sense in the light of his (now shattered) intellectual system.

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