transcription, транскрипция: [ freɪz ]
( phrases, phrasing, phrased)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A phrase is a short group of words that people often use as a way of saying something. The meaning of a phrase is often not obvious from the meaning of the individual words in it.
He used a phrase I hate: ‘You have to be cruel to be kind.’
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2.
A phrase is a small group of words which forms a unit, either on its own or within a sentence.
It is impossible to hypnotise someone simply by saying a particular word or phrase.
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3.
If you phrase something in a particular way, you express it in words in that way.
I would have phrased it quite differently...
They phrased it as a question.
VERB : V n adv , V n as n
4.
If someone has a particular turn of phrase , they have a particular way of expressing themselves in words.
...Schwarzkopf’s distinctive turn of phrase.
to coin a phrase: see coin
PHRASE : N inflects