different between phrase vs phrased

English

Etymology

From Late Latin phrasis (“diction”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (phrásis, “manner of expression”), from ????? (phráz?, “I tell, express”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: fr?z, IPA^(key): /f?e?z/
• Rhymes: -e?z
• Homophones: fraise, frays

Noun

phrase (plural phrases)

1. A short written or spoken expression.

2. (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.
3. (music) A small section of music in a larger piece.
4. (archaic) A mode or form of speech; diction; expression.

   • phrases of the hearth
5. (dance) A short individual motion forming part of a choreographed dance.

Synonyms

• (expression): figure of speech, locution
• See also Thesaurus:phrase

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• phrase on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

phrase (third-person singular simple present phrases, present participle phrasing, simple past and past participle phrased)

1. (transitive) To express (an action, thought or idea) by means of particular words.

   I wasn't sure how to phrase my condolences without sounding patronising.
2. (intransitive, music) To perform a passage with the correct phrasing.
3. (transitive, music) To divide into melodic phrases.

Derived terms

• phrasing

Related terms

• paraphrase
• rephrase

Translations

Further reading

• phrase in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• phrase in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• phrase at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• E sharp, E-sharp, Harpes, Sharpe, Sherpa, Spehar, e sharp, e-sharp, harpes, hepars, pasher, phares, phaser, raphes, seraph, shaper, sharpe, sherpa, shrape, sphear

French

Etymology

From Latin phrasis (“diction”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (phrásis, “manner of expression”), from ????? (phráz?, “I tell, express”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??z/

Noun

phrase f (plural phrases)

1. sentence

Derived terms

• phrase complexe
• phrase simple
• tournure de phrase

Usage notes

• This is a false friend to English phrase.

Further reading

• “phrase” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• harpes, phares

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?p?ra.se/, [?p??äs??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fra.se/, [?f???s??]

Noun

phrase

1. ablative singular of phrasis

Portuguese

Noun

phrase f (plural phrases)

1. Obsolete spelling of frase (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?e?zd/

Verb

phrased

1. simple past tense and past participle of phrase

   • Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.

Anagrams

• Pradesh, R-shaped, Shepard, sharped