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phrases phrase

Spelling: [freyz]

IPA: /freɪz/

Phrases is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 229 anagrams from letters in phrases (aehprss).

Definitions for phrases

noun

1. Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
2. Rhetoric. a word or group of spoken words that the mind focuses on momentarily as a meaningful unit and is preceded and followed by pauses.
3. a characteristic, current, or proverbial expression:
4. Music. a division of a composition, commonly a passage of four or eight measures, forming part of a period.
5. a way of speaking, mode of expression, or phraseology:
6. a brief utterance or remark:
7. Dance. a sequence of motions making up part of a choreographic pattern.

verb (used with object)

1. to express or word in a particular way:
2. to express in words:
3. Music. to mark off or bring out the phrases of (a piece), especially in execution. to group (notes) into a phrase.

verb (used without object)

1. Music. to perform a passage or piece with proper phrasing.

Origin of phrases

1520-30; (noun) back formation from phrases, plural of earlier phrasis Latin phrasis diction, style (plural phrasēs) Greek phrásis diction, style, speech, equivalent to phrá(zein) to speak +

Examples for phrases

But several of these words and phrases do manage to secure an enduring place in the English language.

It is refreshingly—to this reader, at least—devoid of phrases like “a new study shows” or “data now support.”

And then predictably, there was a long unprintable list of synonyms and phrases for various sex acts.

Two phrases stand out: be they who they may and broken in from the birth.

Aldonza had certainly not taught him the phrases he was so fond of repeating.

The 170 lines of it are full of phrases which might be taken direct from the sonnets.

We can not permit ourselves to be narrowed and dwarfed by slogans and phrases.

I have used many Western phrases as necessary to the Western setting.

These are the phrases we want to hear from male allies across the tech industry in 2015 that show true, meaningful support.

All the magical phrases in the play are phrases of jealousy, passion, and pity.