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Phraseology vs Phrasing - What's the difference?

phraseology | phrasing |

As nouns the difference between phraseology and phrasing

is that phraseology is study of set or fixed expressions while phrasing is the way a statement is put together, particularly in matters of style and word choice.

As a verb phrasing is

present participle of lang=en.

phraseology

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • study of set or fixed expressions
  • the style in which words and phrases are used in writing or speech
  • a group of specialized words and expressions used by a particular group
  • a collection of phrases; a phrasebook

    • See also

    * terminology

    External links

    * (wikipedia "phraseology") English words suffixed with -ology

    phrasing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The way a statement is put together, particularly in matters of style and word choice.
    • 1870' ''But for the Sir Walter disease, the character of the Southerner -- or Southron, according to Sir Walter's starchier way of '''phrasing it -- would be wholly modern, in place of modern and medieval mixed, and the South would be fully a generation further advanced than it is.'' Mark Twain, ''Life on the Mississippi , Chapter 46.
  • (music) The way the musical phrases are put together in a composition or in its interpretation, with changes in tempo, volume, or emphasizing one or more instruments over others.
    • 1891' ''The grand difficulty in the opening andante movement of Casta Diva lies in its broad, sustained '''phrasing , in the long, generous undulation of its rhythm, which with most singers drags or gets broken out of symmetry. Jenny Lind conceived and did it truly.'' Joel Benton, ''Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum , Chapter 17.

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