Definitions for phrasing

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phrasing phras·ing

Spelling: [frey-zing]

IPA: /ˈfreɪ zɪŋ/

Phrasing is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 346 anagrams from letters in phrasing (aghinprs).

Definitions for phrasing

noun

1. the act of forming phrases.
2. a manner or method of forming phrases; phraseology.
3. Music. the grouping of the notes of a musical line into distinct phrases.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. a characteristic, current, or proverbial expression:
7. Music. a division of a composition, commonly a passage of four or eight measures, forming part of a period.
8. a way of speaking, mode of expression, or phraseology:
9. a brief utterance or remark:
10. 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 phrasing

First recorded in 1605-15; phrase + -ing¹

Examples for phrasing

This is a more diplomatic way of phrasing my first post-election suggestion: "Insult fewer people next time."

I have only one reply for these persons; and, phrasing it as politely as I can, I say to them that they are all liars.

He hung fire; he wanted me to help him by phrasing what he meant.

Gaga is especially convincing at slower tempos, and this is where weaknesses in phrasing are typically most exposed.

No amount of hacking work can take away the eloquence of this phrasing.

The phrasing was unfortunate, though its conciliatory intention was obvious.

“That phrasing was very clumsy and poorly expresses my thoughts,” she explained.

Many readers thought our phrasing of "fairness" was a bit vague and made the question hard to answer.

And look at how mild her phrasing was: The South “has not always been the friendliest place” for black people.

For Bathsheba's phrasing of life was in the monosyllables of a rigid faith.