Phrasemaker vs Based - What's the difference?
phrasemaker | based |
A crafter of phrases; one who pens bombast or rhetoric.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 28, author=William Safire, title=100 Hours, work=New York Times
, passage=But even as you read this, some sharp political phrasemaker is working on a paragraph that begins “Not in a hundred days, not in a hundred hours, but in a hundred New York minutes . }} founded on; having a basis; often used in combining forms
(base)
Being derived from (usually followed by on' or ' upon ).
Having a
Having a base of operations.
As a noun phrasemaker
is a crafter of phrases; one who pens bombast or rhetoric.As an adjective based is
founded on; having a basis; often used in combining forms.As a verb based is
(base).phrasemaker
English
Noun
(en noun)citation
based
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- That was a soundly based argument.
Derived terms
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Verb
(head)- It's a new film based on a best-selling novel.
- The ladder is based on the even sidewalk for stability.
- The company is based in New York.
