How to pronounce “phrase”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A short written or spoken expression.
• (grammar) A word or, more commonly, a group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence, always containing an expressed or implied head (the principal word or subgroup, with core importance) and often consisting of a head plus some other elaborating words.
• (music) A small section of music in a larger piece.
• (archaic) A mode or form of speech; diction; expression.
• (dance) A short individual motion forming part of a choreographed dance.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To express (an action, thought or idea) by means of particular words.
• (transitive, intransitive, music) To perform (a passage) with a particular phrasing.
• (transitive, music) To divide into melodic phrases.

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