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Definitions: Phrasing |
PhrasingNoun1. The grouping of musical phrases in a melodic line. 2. The manner in which something is expressed in words: "use concise military verbiage"- G.S.Patton. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "phrasing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Synonyms: PhrasingSynonyms: choice of words (n), diction (n), phraseology (n), verbiage (n), wording (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
phasing, in this context, is the playing of two copies of the same piece of music, almost exactly in sync, and mixing the two signals together. by slightly changing the pitch of one of the copies, a phasing effect is heard which sounds like an overhead airplane. for this reason, performing phasing is often referred to as "doing an airplane".
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Phrasing."
Crosswords: Phrasing |
| English words defined with "phrasing": interrogation, interrogative, interrogative sentence ♦ question ♦ Sarah Vaughan ♦ Vaughan. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "phrasing": Hacking X for Y. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | In conversation, Mexicans emphasize tactful and indirect phrasing. (references) | |
Travel | Mexico | Mexican social etiquette makes it difficult to say no. In conversation, Mexicans emphasize tactful and indirect phrasing, and may be more effusive than Americans with praise and emotional expressions. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Phrasing" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 62.79% of the time. "Phrasing" is used about 86 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 62.79% | 54 | 46,184 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 37.21% | 32 | 61,292 |
| Total | 100.00% | 86 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "phrasing": re-phrasing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
phrasing | 5 |
greek phrasing | 2 |
guitar phrasing | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "phrasing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mënyrë të foluri (locution, parlance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مبنى (building, construction, diction, formative, phraseology, premises, structure, style, wording). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | редакция (redaction, version), фразировка, начин на изразяване. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 用言语表达 (Phrased). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | frazeologie (phraseology). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sanakäänne (phrase). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ausdrückend (enunciating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | נסוח (formularization, formulation, phraseology, wording). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szavakba foglalás, szavakba öntés, szóhasználat (expression, usage), megszerkesztés (design, engrossment), megfogalmazás (composition, drafting, framing, shaping, wording), kifejtés (development, exposition, shelling), kifejezésmód (elocution, idiom, locution, phraseology, terms), frazírozottság, beszédfordulat (figure of speech), írásba foglalás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | frasario. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | フレア星 (flare star, flavor, flexibility, flexible, flexible cable, flexible conduit, flexible container, flexible control, flexible disk, Freon gas). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | フレイジング . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 말로 표현. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | asingphray modalidade de expressão, fraseologia (phraseology). (various references) frazeologie (claptrap, phrase, phrase-mongering, phraseology), frazare. (various references) формулирование мысли, выражение (cant phrase, cast, expression, locution, look, phrase, phrasings, Scotticism). (various references) fraseología (phraseology, wording), fraseo, expresión (expression, phrase), estilo (delivery, design, gnomon, idiom, language, league, look, manner, needle, panache, register, stroke, style, stylus, wording). (various references) frasering. (various references) фразування, висловлення думки. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "phrasing": phrasings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "phrasing": misphrasing, paraphrasing, rephrasing. (additional references) | |
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"Phrasing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Frassino, parasing, Prasina, Prasong, Upharsin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "phrasing" (pronounced frā"zing) |
| 5 | -r ā" z i ng | appraising, grazing, praising, raising, razing. |
| 4 | -ā" z i ng | amazing, blazing, gazing, glazing, hazing, phasing. |
| 3 | -z i ng | abusing, accusing, advertising, advising, aggrandizing, agonizing, amortizing, amusing, analyzing, antagonizing, apologizing, appeasing, appetizing, arising, arousing, authorizing, boozing, bowsing, browsing, bruising, brutalizing, bulldozing, buzzing, cannibalizing, capitalizing, carousing, categorizing, causing, centralizing, characterizing, chastising, choosing, cleansing, closing, colorizing, commercializing, composing, comprising, compromising, computerizing, confusing, criminalizing, criticizing, cruising, crystallizing, customizing, decentralizing, decomposing, decriminalizing, deemphasizing, defusing, dehumanizing, demilitarizing, democratizing, demonizing, demoralizing, denationalizing, desensitizing, destabilizing, devising, diffusing, digitizing, disclosing, disguising, disposing, downsizing, dozing, dramatizing, easing, economizing, editorializing, emphasizing, enclosing, energizing, enterprising, equalizing, espousing, excusing, exercising, exposing, fantasizing, federalizing, fertilizing, finalizing, foreclosing, formalizing, franchising, fraternizing, freezing, fusing, galvanizing, generalizing, glamorizing, harmonizing, hosing, housing, humanizing, hydrolyzing, idolizing, immobilizing, immortalizing, immunizing, imposing, improvising, industrializing, infusing, institutionalizing, ionizing, ironizing, itemizing, jeopardizing, legalizing, legitimizing, liberalizing, losing, marginalizing, materializing, maximizing, memorizing, merchandising, mesmerizing, minimizing, misusing, mobilizing, modernizing, monopolizing, moralizing, musing, nationalizing, neutralizing, normalizing, nosing, oozing, opposing, organizing, overgrazing, overusing, oxidizing, paralyzing, paraphrasing, patronizing, pausing, penalizing, personalizing, perusing, pleasing, polarizing, politicizing, popularizing, posing, predisposing, prioritizing, privatizing, proposing, proselytizing, publicizing, quizzing, rationalizing, realizing, reauthorizing, recapitalizing, recognizing, recusing, refusing, reimposing, reorganizing, reusing, revising, revitalizing, revolutionizing, rising, romanticizing, Rosing, sanitizing, satirizing, schmoozing, scrutinizing, securitizing, seizing, sensationalizing, sizing, sneezing, snoozing, socializing, specializing, squeezing, stabilizing, standardizing, sterilizing, stigmatizing, strategizing, subsidizing, summarizing, supervising, supposing, surprising, symbolizing, sympathizing, synthesizing, tantalizing, teasing, televising, temporizing, terrorizing, theorizing, tranquilizing, trivializing, unappetizing, uncompromising, unionizing, unsurprising, uprising, using, utilizing, vandalizing, verbalizing, victimizing, visualizing, warehousing, wheezing, whizzing, womanizing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: harpings, sharping. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-h-i-n-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: garnish, harping, harpins, hasping, parings, parsing, pashing, phasing, rasping, shaping, sharing, sparing. | |
-2 letters: arshin, ashing, garish, grains, graphs, haring, harpin, paring, parish, prangs, raphis, raping, rasing, shairn, sprain, sprang, spring. | |
-3 letters: airns, aphis, aping, apish, gains, garni, girns, girsh, gnars, gnash, grain, grans, graph, grasp, grins, grips, hairs, hangs, harps, naris, nighs, nipas. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-h-i-n-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: handgrips, phrasings, reshaping, scarphing. | |
+2 letters: aphorising, hairspring, handspring, headspring, preshaping, prewashing, purchasing, rephrasing, sharpening, springhead. | |
+3 letters: generalship, graphicness, hairsprings, handsprings, headsprings, managership, misphrasing, pharyngitis, prehearings, prognathism, semaphoring, springheads. | |
+4 letters: cheeseparing, generalships, guardianship, managerships, negrophobias, nomographies, paraphrasing, phrasemaking, prognathisms, renographies, repurchasing, rhapsodizing, scenographic, scintigraphy, sonographies, spearfishing, spearheading, stenographic, straphanging, superheating, transhipping, transshaping, trapshooting, venographies. | |
+5 letters: angiographies, cheeseparings, ethnographies, grantsmanship, graphicnesses, guardianships, hairsplitting, iconographers, iconographies, mastigophoran, paperhangings, pharyngitides, phonographies, phrasemakings, planographies, pornographies, prepurchasing, reemphasizing, scenographies, scintigraphic, sharecropping, sharpshooting, sheepshearing, stenographies, supercharging, transshipping, trapshootings, uranographies. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 68 72 61 73 69 6E 67 |
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