Phraseology

Definition

phrase /freÇz/ n ၁။ (က) ( grammar ) (ႀကိယာမဲ့) ပုဒ္စု။ ‘The green car’ and ‘at half past four’ are phrases. See also NOUN PHRASE (ခ) စကား အသံုးအႏႈန္း။ စကား။ စကားရပ္။ a memorable/well-chosen/significant phrase ❍ learn a few phrases of Hindi ❍ She was, in her own evocative phrase, a woman without a past. See also CATCHPHRASE ၂။ ( music ) ေတးသြားတစ္ကန္႔။ v ၁။ စီကံုးသည္။ ဖြဲ ဆို႔သည္။ phrase one's criticism very carefully ❍ regulations phrased in terms of national security. ၂။ ေတးသြားကိုကန္႔၍ ေတးဖြဲ႕သည္။ an elegantly phrased aria. ❏ phrasal /'freÇzl/ adj ပုဒ္စု။ ❏ phrasal verb n (ဤအဘိဓာန္၌ [ PHRV ]ဟု အတိုေကာက္ သံုးသည္။ ) ႀကိယာႏွင့္ ႀကိယာဝိေသသန (သို႔) ဝိဘတ္ ေပါင္းစပ္ ထားျခင္းျဖင့္ မူလႀကိယာထက္အနက္ထူးေသာ ပုဒ္စု။ ႀကိယာပုဒ္စု။ go in for, win over, blow up. ❏ phrase book n ႏွစ္ဘာသာစကားေျပာစာအုပ္။ buy a Spanish phrase book for one's holiday. ❏ phraseology /freÇzi'ɒlǝdʒi/ n [U] စကား အစီအစဥ္၊ အသံုးအႏႈန္း။ The phraseology was typical of a school report, with expressions like ‘tries hard’ and ‘could do better’. ❏ phrasing n [U] ၁။ ( music ) ေတးသြားကန္႔ပံု။ ယတိ။ အျဖတ္အရပ္။ The singer was criticized for her poor phrasing. ၂။ PHRASEOLOGY

Examples

1. Several of those interviewed used the phrase ‘being one’s own boss’.
2. The long melodic phrases of Dvorak’s American String Quartet