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phrase is a
group of
words which act
together as a
grammatical unit. For instance, the
English expression "the very
happy squirrel" is a noun
phrase which...
- noun
phrase, or
nominal (
phrase), is a
phrase that has a noun or
pronoun as its head or
performs the same
grammatical function as a noun. Noun
phrases are...
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adpositional phrase, in linguistics, is a
syntactic category that
includes prepositional phrases,
postpositional phrases, and cir****positional
phrases. Adpositional...
- In
music theory, a
phrase (Gr****: φράση) is a unit of
musical meter that has a
complete musical sense of its own,
built from figures, motifs, and cells...
- A
laconic phrase or
laconism is a
concise or
terse statement,
especially a
blunt and
elliptical rejoinder. It is
named after Laconia, the
region of Greece...
- In linguistics, an
adverbial phrase ("AdvP") is a multi-word
expression operating adverbially: its
syntactic function is to
modify other expressions, including...
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translations of
notable Latin phrases, such as veni vidi vici and et cetera. Some of the
phrases are
themselves translations of Gr****
phrases, as Gr**** rhetoric...
- A
proverbial phrase or a
proverbial expression is type of a
conventional saying similar to
proverbs and
transmitted by oral tradition. The
difference is...
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Musical phrasing is the way a
musician shapes a
sequence of
notes in a p****age of
music to
allow expression, much like when
speaking English a
phrase may...
- "Gordon Bennett" is an English-language
idiomatic phrase used to
express surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, or frustration. The
expression is thought...
