A word or group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence, usually consisting of a head, or central word, and elaborating words
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
a short musical expression, several of which comprise an entire tune or melody The phrase structure provides insight into the shape, aesthetics, and psychodynamics of the tune The fiddle tunes in this collection typically have two strains, each of which is composed of four phrases or eight subphrases In the Musical Features section of the bibliographic record for each tune, phrases are indicated by capital letters and subphrases are in parentheses in lowercase letters Thus a phrase structure described as ABA'B QRQS (abcd ab'cd qrst qrud) indicates a tune of two strains, each composed of four phrases The first strain (ABA'B) consists of an initial phrase (A), a different second phrase (B), a third phrase repeating the first phrase with a significant alteration (A'), and a fourth phrase repeating the second phrase (B) The same first strain can be broken down into eight subphrases: (abcd) repeated with a significant alteration of the second subphrase (ab'cd)
put into words or an expression; "He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees"
When fencers manage to string words together rather than grunting monosyllabically
A word or group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence, usually consisting of a head, or central word, and elaborating words. In the noun phrase the big bird, for example, the noun, bird is the head
an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up