(n.) 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.
(n.) A short, pithy expression; especially, one which is often employed; a peculiar or idiomatic turn of speech; as, to err is human.
(n.) A mode or form of speech; the manner or style in which any one expreses himself; diction; expression.
(n.) A short clause or portion of a period.
(v. t.) To express in words, or in peculiar words; to call; to style.
(v. i.) To use proper or fine phrases.
(v. i.) To group notes into phrases; as, he phrases well. See Phrase, n., 4.
Example Sentences:
(1) But in 2017, to borrow another phrase from across the pond, there simply is no alternative.
(2) I never accuse a student of plagiarizing unless I have proof, almost always in the form of sources easily found by Googling a few choice phrases.
(3) It's that he habitually abuses his position by lobbying ministers at all; I've heard from former ministers who were astonished by the speed with which their first missive from Charles arrived, opening with the phrase: "It really is appalling".
(4) The phrase “self-inflicted blow” was one he used repeatedly, along with the word “glib” – applied to his Vote Leave opponents.
(5) On Thursday, Dutton had scaled his language back, instead using a phrase to describe Labor’s policy borrowed from former prime minister, Tony Abbott.
(6) At a dinner party, say, if ever you hear a person speak of a school for Islamic children, or Catholic children (you can read such phrases daily in newspapers), pounce: "How dare you?
(7) The #putyourwalletsout phrase was coined by Sydney-based Twitter user Steve Lopez, who accompanied it with a photo of his wallet.
(8) He admitted that he had “no reason” to fire the shots that killed Steenkamp, as Nel told him: “Your version is so improbable, that nobody would ever think it’s reasonably, possibly true, it’s so impossible … Your version is a lie.” Nel said the phrase “I love you” appeared only twice in WhatsApp messages from Steenkamp and, on both occasions, they were written to her mother: “Never to you and you never to her.” Day 20: live coverage as it happened.
(9) Von Trier, who took a " vow of silence " after being banned from the Cannes film festival in 2011 after joking about Nazism during a press conference for Melancholia, arrived at Nymphomaniac's photocall wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the phrase "Persona Non Grata"; true to his word, he failed to attend the subsequent press conference where his actors and producer talked about the film.
(10) (now the phrase "reverse engineer" has me thinking).
(11) In it he translated Trump’s coarse ramblings into charming straight talk and came up with the phrase “truthful hyperbole”, which captures brilliantly an approach to business and politics in which everything is the greatest, the most beautiful.
(12) To complement these results a perception test was carried out in which 29 native speakers identified a randomised sequence of 220 stimuli from tape as one of the phrases 'Diese Gruppe kann ich nicht leid(e)n (leit(e)n)'.
(13) Peskov has refused to deny the phrase, saying only that Ponomaryov's publicising of a private conversation was "not manly".
(14) One of my technologists has a phrase: ‘internet of other people’s things,’” Tien said.
(15) The phrase “currency war” speaks to a seemingly phoney battle between the world’s major trading powers over the price of exports.
(16) Thereafter they both got so angry with one another they started adopting each other's pet phrases – "I won't be lectured to by..." – and there was the unnerving possibility they might just morph into a single, spluttering entity.
(17) Later that year, speaking at Sinn Féin's annual conference, I used the phrase "the Armalite and the ballot box" to sum up the new duel strategy of engaging in armed struggle and simultaneously contesting elections.
(18) Mohan also said it amounted to an "innocuous British institution", a phrase that inadvertently emphasised its anachronistic nature.
(19) The phrase "Frankenfood" entered tabloid English at the turn of the last century when protesters, backed by the green movement, trashed GM crops wearing white overalls and face masks as an emotive PR tactic.
(20) The phrase "Defender of the Faith," which is usually included in the King's titles, appears neither in the instrument of abdication nor in the bill.
Rephrase
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) • This article was amended on 14 October 2012 to rephrase a reference to the abducted child Madeleine McCann being "regularly photographed" during the period in question.
(2) Mothers responded by producing fewer rephrased questions, fewer questions providing hints and answers, fewer questions functioning as repetitions and expansions, and more directly repeated questions when the older sibling was present.
(3) Results indicate that teachers most often ask questions that require student to provide more information; yet these questions do not affect revision as much as questions which require students to rephrase specific language.
(4) Barker, too, was rephrasing his enthusiasm: "Osborne was speaking to an audience beyond the conference hall, beyond the green mafia.
(5) And his 47% “gaffe” is no longer something to let slip out via a secret video, but something for candidates like Scott Walker to rephrase and use as a stump speech.
(6) But step outside that and face the world, come on !” I rephrase my earlier question: is he afraid of making enemies in public life and politics?
(7) Perhaps, I thought, the correct response would have been to send Carter-Silk an email pointing out that if he suspected the message he was about to send was “horribly politically incorrect”, then he should probably rephrase it.
(8) But if you rephrase the data, this means on average you will have an extra 4.1 days of life.” He warns that the risks are based on old data when heart attacks were more common – one study found that risk calculators overestimated the risk by four or five times.
(9) Each principle was rephrased as an attitude or value associated with Level II fieldwork, matched with a Likert-type 5-point interval scale, and distributed to a convenience sample of 81 fieldwork supervisors.
(10) With the rankings tallied, the $5,000 prize goes to American chatbot Chip Vivant, the same bot that told one judge, "Please rephrase as a proper question, instead of 'Jim likes P'".
(11) In adapting the English version of the Arabic draft text, Said used his influence to rephrase the Arabic; although his modifications were insufficient to satisfy the Reagan administration, which ended by dictating the crucial words that appeared in Arafat's speech to a special session of the UN general assembly (convened in Geneva because the US state department refused to grant Arafat a visa to attend the UN in New York), there can be little doubt that Said's tireless representations in the American media, explaining that the declaration amounted to a "historic compromise" on the part of the Palestinians towards the Jewish state, opened the way for the US-PLO dialogue that would lead to the Madrid conference and the Oslo peace process.
(12) Many of my families have learning disabilities so I often have to rephrase and breakdown what is being said so they can understand; the legal terms being used can be very confusing.
(13) Described as the "brains behind the FSA" in an annual list of the 100 most powerful financiers in the UK, Sants often debates or rephrases questions before answering them.
(14) I rephrase the question, attempting to elicit a more personal response.
(15) Perhaps it is time to rephrase the challenge, says Brin.
(16) Perhaps you'd like to rephrase your question in a non-value-laden way."
(17) Items were rephrased to ensure understanding, although a small degree of standardization may have been lost in this process.
(18) In relation to this positive finding, the equivocality among some of the previous studies on the detection of BI components in human scalp BAEPs is tentatively rephrased in terms mainly of a low signal-to-noise ratio and of functional peculiarities introduced by the respective stimulation protocols.
(19) When the reporter rephrased the question he said “without wanting to get into an argument with the media what you have just said is very different from the accusation and statement you earlier made, we need to have decent standards in this country, including decent standards from the media”.
(20) They’re the same bold alternatives you’ve seen rephrased for 40 years, proffered as if untested on 300,000,000 guinea pigs already.