Phrase vs Midphrase - What's the difference?
phrase | midphrase |
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.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-11-30, volume=409, issue=8864, magazine=(The Economist), author=Paul Davis
, 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
In the middle of a phrase
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=June 2, author=Corey Kilgannon, title=A Jazzman’s Farewell Album, All Heart and Soul, work=New York Times
, passage=He reared his body up and down with emotion as he played, and often grunted midphrase . }}
As a verb phrase
is .As a noun phrase
is phrasing.As an adverb midphrase is
in the middle of a phrase.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
* ----midphrase
English
Adverb
(-)citation