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PHRASING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does phrasing mean? 

PHRASING (noun)
  The noun PHRASING has 2 senses:

1. the grouping of musical phrases in a melodic lineplay

2. the manner in which something is expressed in wordsplay

  Familiarity information: PHRASING used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PHRASING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The grouping of musical phrases in a melodic line

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("phrasing" is a kind of...):

grouping (the activity of putting things together in groups)


Sense 2

Meaning:

The manner in which something is expressed in words

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

choice of words; diction; phraseology; phrasing; verbiage; wording

Context example:

use concise military verbiage

Hypernyms ("phrasing" is a kind of...):

expression; formulation (the style of expressing yourself)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "phrasing"):

mot juste (the appropriate word or expression)

verbalisation; verbalization (the words that are spoken in the activity of verbalization)

Derivation:

phrase (put into words or an expression)


 Context examples 


And his next thought was that he had been phrasing his ideas very well, and he went to bed wondering why he could not talk in similar fashion when he was with Ruth.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“I was unable to prevent it, is a better way of phrasing it,” I replied, still gently.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

His brows drew in slightly with the mental effort of suitably phrasing thoughts which he had never before put into speech.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)



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