phrase

1. A short written or spoken expression.

   I've made progress, but this is still, in Churchill's phrase, just "the end of the beginning."

   Redewendung, Phrase

   фра́заfráza, выраже́ниеvyražénije

   фра́заfráza, ви́слівvýsliv, ре́ченняréčennja

   a short musical passage

2. A word or, more commonly, a group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence, always containing an expressed or implied head (the principal word or subgroup, with core importance) and often consisting of a head plus some other elaborating words.

   Holonyms: clause, sentence; phrasing, phraseology, turn of phrase; phrase-book; document, message; language; communication

   Meronyms: head, complement, adjunct, supplement, modifier; term, word

   Phrase

   словосочета́ниеslovosočetánije, оборо́т ре́чиoborót réči, фра́заfráza

   словосполу́ченняslovospolúčennja, фра́заfráza

3. A small section of music in a larger piece.

   Phrase

   фра́заfráza

   фра́заfráza

4. A short individual motion forming part of a choreographed dance.

5. (archaic)A mode or form of speech; diction; expression.

1. What's the meaning of this phrase?

   Яке значення цієї фрази?

   ruКаково значение этой фразы?

   deWas bedeutet dieser Satz?

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2. Can it be phrased in another way?

   Чи можна це перефразувати якось інакше?

   ruМожно сформулировать это по-другому?

   deKann man das anders ausdrücken?

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3. He explained the literal meaning of the phrase.

   Він пояснив буквальне значення фрази.

   deEr erklärte die wörtliche Bedeutung des Satzes.

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4. This phrase seems correct to me.

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5. Let me phrase that another way.

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