- In
everyday speech, a
phrase is any
group of words,
often carrying a
special idiomatic meaning; in this
sense it is
synonymous with expression. In linguistic...
- A noun
phrase, or
nominal (
phrase), is a
phrase that has a noun (or
indefinite pronoun) as its head or
performs the same
grammatical function as a noun...
- A set
phrase or
fixed phrase is a
phrase whose parts are
fixed in a
certain order, even if the
phrase could be
changed without harming the
literal meaning...
- 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...
- In linguistics, an
adverbial phrase ("AdvP") is a multi-word
expression operating adverbially: its
syntactic function is to
modify other expressions, including...
- 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...
-
adpositional phrase, in linguistics, is a
syntactic category that
includes prepositional phrases,
postpositional phrases, and cir****positional
phrases. Adpositional...
- A
proverbial phrase or a
proverbial expression is type of a
conventional saying similar to
proverbs and
transmitted by oral tradition. The
difference is...
-
Parting phrases,
which are
valedictions used to
acknowledge the
parting of
individuals or
groups of
people from each other, are
elements of
parting traditions...
-
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...