The verb phrase means to articulate. You should be careful how you phrase your criticism of your boss. Saying he can be demanding is probably okay. Saying he is an ogre is probably not.
A brief expression, sometimes a single word, but usually two or more words forming an expression by themselves, or being a portion of a sentence;
Noun
an expression forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence but not containing a finite verb
Noun
a short musical passage
Noun
an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up
Verb
put into words or an expression; "He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees"
n.
A brief expression, sometimes a single word, but usually
two or more words forming an expression by themselves, or being a
portion of a sentence; as, an adverbial phrase.
n.
A short, pithy expression; especially, one which is often
employed; a peculiar or idiomatic turn of speech; as, to err is human.
n.
A mode or form of speech; the manner or style in which any
one expreses himself; diction; expression.
n.
A short clause or portion of a period.
v. t.
To express in words, or in peculiar words; to call; to
style.
v. i.
To use proper or fine phrases.
v. i.
To group notes into phrases; as, he phrases well. See
Phrase, n., 4.
Phrase
"Convey" the wise it call. "Steal!" foh! a fico for the phrase.2.
Thou speak'st In better phrase and matter than thou didst.4.
Phrase
Phrase
A brief expression, sometimes a single word, but usually two or more words forming an expression by themselves, or being a portion of a sentence;
To express in words, or in peculiar words; to call; to style.
To use proper or fine phrases.
Usage Examples
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.
Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.
A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom.
A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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Other Usage ExamplesI see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made.
Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.
He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech.
A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.
The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.'
It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.
Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.
I wish I had coined the phrase 'tyranny of choice,' but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of options does not make you feel privileged and indulged too many options make you feel like all of them are wrong, and that you are wrong if you choose any of them.
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.
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