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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Saying & uttering
(your) every wordidiom
add
come out with something
every
fall from something
find your voiceidiom
get in
in your own wordsidiom
intone
loud
mouth
quoth
say
spoken
string
talk senseidiom
think
utterance
verbalize
volunteer

phrase | American Dictionary

phrase
noun[ C ]
us/freɪz/
a group of words expressing a particular idea or meaning:
I think the phrase "bundle of energy" describes Mara very well.
grammar
A phrase is a group of words forming a part of a sentence:
In "He was a man of great wealth," "of great wealth" is a prepositional phrase.
music
A phrase is also a group of notes with a clear beginning and ending within a larger piece of music.

phrasal

adjectiveus/ˈfreɪ·zəl/
phrase
verb[ T ]
us/freɪz/
to express something in a particular way when speaking or writing:
The wording of his resignation was carefully phrased to avoid any admission of guilt.

Examples of phrase

phrase
For example, planning breathing between phrases systematically and marking this on the music generally increased their sense of control.
The restriction aims at reducing the combinatorial complexity of rule numbers due to the order sensitivity of phrase structure grammar.
While phrases tend to be stressed phrase-finally, compounds tend to be stressed on the first element.
In the discussion which follows, we will use the phrase ' depends on ' in a technical sense.
In these instances, then, the entailments of sentences with spatial to phrases are determined by the meaning of their verbs.
Table 1 shows the numbers of frozen phrases, intermediate and constructed utterances up to the point at which each child had 25 constructed patterns.
After three or four repetitions, children understood the desired pattern of responses and phrased their answers accordingly.
Most of the recurring verbs (have, do, make) do not establish useful selectional preferences, and most of the noun phrases are actually semantically weak pronouns.
The first category comprised single phrase utterances, minimally containing a preposition and a noun.
His musical structures are often contrapuntal and baroque but his upward thrust is unwaveringly romantic and dominated by long vocal phrases.
It might be objected that a phrase requiring, for example, "reasonable scientific foundation" of a suspicion to trigger precautionary measures is not very precise.
Furthermore, an adjunct like an adverbial phrase which can be placed in any position in a sentence can further double the number of rules.
When a word or phrase is placed in inverted commas, it allows us a provisional use of it.
The discussions preceding "offering truth," the physical setting, and the way decisionmaking options are phrased can greatly affect how the patient chooses.
Therefore, a noun phrase containing its head noun plus a postnominal genitive nominal in fact consisted of two noun phrases.
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Collocations withphrase

phrase

These are words often used in combination with phrase.

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adjective phrase
But the fact that an adjective phrase can also readily be introduced by a member of the lexical category adverb is not mentioned.
adverbial phrase
Furthermore, an adjunct like an adverbial phrase which can be placed in any position in a sentence can further double the number of rules.
ambiguous phrase
I want to be quite certain what is meant, because that can be an ambiguousphrase.
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