All phrase synonyms
phrase
P p noun phrase
- wordage — words collectively.
- expression — The process of making known one's thoughts or feelings.
- diction — Someone's diction is how clearly they speak or sing.
- localism — a word, phrase, pronunciation, or manner of speaking that is peculiar to one locality.
- acronym — An acronym is a word composed of the first letters of the words in a phrase, especially when this is used as a name. An example of an acronym is NATO which is made up of the first letters of the 'North Atlantic Treaty Organization'.
- acronyms — a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words and pronounced as a separate word, as Wac from Women's Army Corps, OPEC from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or loran from long-range navigation.
- melody — musical sounds in agreeable succession or arrangement.
- acrostic — a number of lines of writing, such as a poem, certain letters of which form a word, proverb, etc. A single acrostic is formed by the initial letters of the lines, a double acrostic by the initial and final letters, and a triple acrostic by the initial, middle, and final letters
- formulation — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- idiom — an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket or hang one's head, or from the general grammatical rules of a language, as the table round for the round table, and that is not a constituent of a larger expression of like characteristics.
- by-word — a word or phrase associated with some person or thing; a characteristic expression, typical greeting, or the like.
- wordplay — clever or subtle repartee; verbal wit.
- command language — the language used to access a computer system
- morpheme — any of the minimal grammatical units of a language, each constituting a word or meaningful part of a word, that cannot be divided into smaller independent grammatical parts, as the, write, or the -ed of waited. Compare allomorph (def 2), morph (def 1).
- lexeme — a lexical unit in a language, as a word or base; vocabulary item.
- morphemes — any of the minimal grammatical units of a language, each constituting a word or meaningful part of a word, that cannot be divided into smaller independent grammatical parts, as the, write, or the -ed of waited. Compare allomorph (def 2), morph (def 1).
verb phrase
- formulate — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- mapped — a representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens, showing them in their respective forms, sizes, and relationships according to some convention of representation: a map of Canada.
- mapping — function
- bring forward — If you bring forward a meeting or event, you arrange for it to take place at an earlier date or time than had been planned.
- express — By express train or delivery service.
- word — Microsoft Word
- couch — A couch is a long, comfortable seat for two or three people.