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phrase
phrase is a 6-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A brief expression, sometimes a single word, but usually two or more words forming an expression by themselves, or being a portion of a sentence; as, an adverbial phrase. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 11 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A brief expression, sometimes a single word, but usually two or more words forming an expression by themselves, or being a portion of a sentence; as, an adverbial phrase.
- 2noun
A short, pithy expression; especially, one which is often employed; a peculiar or idiomatic turn of speech; as, to err is human.
- 3noun
A mode or form of speech; the manner or style in which any one expreses himself; diction; expression.
- 4noun
A short clause or portion of a period.
- 5transitive verb
To express in words, or in peculiar words; to call; to style.
- 6intransitive verb
To use proper or fine phrases.
- 7intransitive verb
To group notes into phrases; as, he phrases well. See Phrase., 4.
- 8noun
dance movements that are linked in a single choreographic sequence
- 9noun
an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence
- 10noun
a short musical passage
- 11noun
an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up
Synonyms
- 12verb
divide, combine, or mark into phrases
"phrase a musical passage"
- 13verb
put into words or an expression
"He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees"
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