phrase
短语,短句,词组,句子
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- : Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. 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.
- : 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.
- : a characteristic, current, or proverbial expression: a hackneyed phrase.
- : Music. a division of a composition, commonly a passage of four or eight measures, forming part of a period.
- : a way of speaking, mode of expression, or phraseology: a book written in the phrase of the West.
- : a brief utterance or remark: In a phrase, he's a dishonest man.
- : Dance. a sequence of motions making up part of a choreographic pattern.
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phrased, phras·ing.
- : to express or word in a particular way: to phrase an apology well.
- : to express in words: to phrase one's thoughts.
- : Music. to mark off or bring out the phrases of, especially in execution.to group into a phrase.
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phrased, phras·ing.
- : Music. to perform a passage or piece with proper phrasing.
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In addition, if your website is an information resource, you are trying to capture lots of search phrases and not heavily relying on just a few that might be struck by an algorithm.
Aside from Alexa tech, Buick’s campaign includes a custom Alexa “utterance,” a phrase that lets people ask about the manufacturer’s vehicle from any device.
As far as I understand, recent work on Pirahã shows that you have this ability to stack noun phrases at the start of the sentence to mark them as the topic of the conversation.
For instance, researchers have shown that certain common phrases can activate voice assistants like Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple’s Siri, creating potential privacy problems.
The good news is that you can use plenty of online tools to search for relevant phrases and add them to your content.
This same outlet worked the phrase “engagement to toyboy lover” into the headline of their article on Fry.
In 2007, Huckabee said he stood by these earlier remarks, but would phrase them differently.
I admit, I chuckled when I read the phrase “boomtown effects” in the New York report.
But the phrase “made it” does not properly describe Pomplamoose.
Interpreted more broadly, the phrase loses meaning: what constitutes the necessary threshold of realism?
No one ever argued with Levison; all understood that this particular phrase was final.
He was guilty of the weakness of taking refuge in what is called, I believe, in legal phrase, a side-issue.
It seeks the shortest phrase or sentence and adds successively all the modifiers, making no omissions.
Even if this colour scheme will not work, there is still a justification for the Asquithian phrase.
Here the “c” is hard and represents 7, and as the steamboat could easily outrun the “scow,” the phrase is easily remembered.