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English
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Verb
phrasing
- present participle and gerund of phrase
Noun
phrasing (plural phrasings)
- The way a statement is put together, particularly in matters of style and word choice.
- Synonyms: wording; see also Thesaurus:wording
1870, Mark Twain, chapter 46, in Life on the Mississippi, archived from the original on 11 August 2014: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 medieval mixed, and the South would be fully a generation further advanced than it is.
- (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.
1977 August 13, Jim Marko, “Swados' Rare and Moving Nightclub Cantata”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 6, page 11:I found myself truly moved by a stage event for the first time in years. I found myself humming tunes that one might not rightfully call tunes. Days later, I still remember these musical phrasings in little swatches of sound.
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the way a statement is put together
the way the musical phrases are put together
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