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| phrasing | |
| 1. v. Participe présent du verbe to phrase. | |
| phrase | |
| 1. n. Locution. | |
| A "fiction writer" is an example of a phrase. | |
| 2. n. Tournure de phrase, tour de langage, expression. | |
| The Gettysburg address by Abraham Lincoln opens with the famous phrase "four score and seven years ago", which is based on an earlier system of counting by twenties (scores). | |
| 3. n. (Par analogie) (musique) Phrase. | |
| Musical phrase | |
| 4. n. (Grammaire) Syntagme. | |
| 5. v. Exprimer. | |
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| phrasing | |
| 1. n. 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 med | |
| 2. n. (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 g | |
