What is the difference between phrase and allude?
phrase | allude |
A short written or spoken expression.
(grammar) 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.
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, title= (music) A small section of music in a larger piece.
(archaic) A mode or form of speech; diction; expression.
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* Shakespeare
(music) To perform a passage with the correct phrasing.
(music) To divide into melodic phrases.
To express (an action, thought or idea) by means of words.
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To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion.
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As verbs the difference between phrase and allude
is that phrase is (music) to perform a passage with the correct phrasing while allude is to refer to something indirectly or by suggestion.As a noun phrase
is a short written or spoken expression.phrase
English
Noun
(en noun)Letters: Say it as simply as possible, passage=Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“
On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?}}
- phrases of the hearth
- Thou speak'st / In better phrase and matter than thou didst.
Synonyms
* (expression) figure of speech, locution * See alsoDerived terms
* adjective phrase * adverb phrase * antecedent phrase * bombard phrase * catchphrase * consequent phrase * determiner phrase * empty phrase * noun phrase * participial phrase * phrasal * phrase book * phrase structure * phrasemaker * phraseology * prepositional phrase * set phrase * turn a phrase * verb phraseSee also
* (wikipedia)Verb
(phras)- These suns — for so they phrase 'em.
Derived terms
* phrasingExternal links
* *Anagrams
* ----allude
English
Verb
(allud)Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book V, Chapter xxix.3, 1841 ed., page 523:
- These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use.
page 474
- It was aptly said by Newton that "whatever is not deduced from facts must be regarded as hypothesis," but hypothesis appears to us a title too honourable for the crude guessings to which we allude .
citation, passage=We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.}}
