Phrasing

Quick meaning: Phrasing is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of phrase.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of phrase.

More Meanings

1. The way a statement is put together, particularly in matters of style and word choice.
2. (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.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

Word Forms

• phrasings

Synonyms for phrasing

Depending on context, synonyms include wording, talk, terminology, verbiage, phraseology, diction.

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