Phrase vs Fang - What's the difference?
phrase | fang |
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.
* Tennyson
* 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.
* Shakespeare
(transitive, dialectal, or, archaic) To catch, capture; seize; grip; clutch; lay hold of.
* J. Webster
(transitive, dialectal, or, obsolete) To take; receive with assent; accept.
(transitive, obsolete, as a guest) To receive with hospitality; welcome.
(transitive, obsolete, a thing given or imposed) To receive.
(dialectal) To receive or adopt into spiritual relation, as in baptism; be godfather or godmother to.
A grasping; capture; the act or power of seizing; hold.
That which is seized or carried off; booty; spoils; stolen goods.
Any projection, catch, shoot, or other thing by which hold is taken; a prehensile part or organ.
* Evelyn
(mining) A channel cut in the rock, or a pipe of wood, used for conveying air.
(rare, in the plural) Cage-shuts.
(nautical) The coil or bend of a rope; (by extension) a noose; a trap.
(nautical) The valve of a pump box.
a long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh
(in snakes) a long pointed tooth for injecting venom
(rare) To strike or attack with the fangs.
To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs.
* Philips
As nouns the difference between phrase and fang
is that phrase is a short written or spoken expression while fang is a grasping; capture; the act or power of seizing; hold or fang can be a long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh.As verbs the difference between phrase and fang
is that phrase is (music) to perform a passage with the correct phrasing while fang is (transitive|dialectal|or|archaic) to catch, capture; seize; grip; clutch; lay hold of or fang can be (scotland|transitive) to supply (a pump) with the water necessary for it to operate or fang can be (rare) to strike or attack with the fangs.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
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* *Anagrams
* ----fang
English
(wikipedia fang)Etymology 1
From (etyl) fangen, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- He's in the law's clutches; you see he's fanged .
- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) fang, .Noun
(en noun)- the protuberant fangs of the yucca
Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 3
From an abbreviation of fangtooth, from (etyl) *.Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Verb
(en verb)- chariots fanged with scythes