phrase, übersetzung im Collins English Cobuild & Thesaurus Wörterbuch

phrase (phrases plural & 3rd person present) (phrasing present participle) (phrased past tense & past participle )

1 n-count A phrase is a short group of words that people often use as a way of saying something. The meaning of a phrase is often not obvious from the meaning of the individual words in it.
He used a phrase I hate: `You have to be cruel to be kind.'

2 n-count A phrase is a small group of words which forms a unit, either on its own or within a sentence.
It is impossible to hypnotise someone simply by saying a particular word or phrase.

3 verb If you phrase something in a particular way, you express it in words in that way.
I would have phrased it quite differently... V n adv

4 If someone has a particular turn of phrase, they have a particular way of expressing themselves in words.
♦ turn of phrase phrase
...Schwarzkopf's distinctive turn of phrase.
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