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phrasing
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun phrasing has 2 senses
- phrasing(n = noun.act) Array - the grouping of musical phrases in a melodic line; Array is a kind of grouping
- phrasing(n = noun.communication) choice of words, diction, phraseology, verbiage, wording - the manner in which something is expressed in words; "use concise military verbiage" is a kind of expression, formulation
has particulars: mot juste, verbalisation, verbalization
Derived form verb phrase1
CIDE DICTIONARY
phrasing, n.
- Method of expression; association of words. [1913 Webster]
- The act or method of grouping the notes so as to form distinct musical phrases. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
phrasing
adaptation, arrangement, choice of words, composition, dialect, diction, expression, formulation, grammar, harmonization, idiom, instrumentation, intonation, language, locution, modulation, orchestration, parlance, phrase, phraseology, preparation, resolution, rhetoric, setting, solution, speech, suspension, talk, tone painting, transcription, usage, use of words, usus loquendi, verbalism, verbiage, wordage, wording
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