phrase

Roget category 566

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.10. Means of communicating ideas
›› 4.10.2. Conventional means

#566. Phrase

noun

phrase, expression, set phrase — sentence, paragraph — figure of speech etc. 521 — idiom, idiotism^† — turn of expression — style.
paraphrase etc. (synonym) 522 — periphrase etc. (circumlocution) 573 — motto etc. (proverb) 496^†.
phraseology etc. 569.

verb

express, phrase — word, word it — give words to, give expression to — voice — arrange in words, clothe in words, put into words, express by words — couch in terms — find words to express — speak by the card — call, denominate, designate, dub.

adjective

expressed etc. v. — idiomatic.

adverb

in round terms, in set terms, in good set terms, set terms — in set phrases.

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