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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: 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 [syn: wording, diction, phrasing, phraseology, choice of words, verbiage]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1611 1. style of expression ; phraseology 2. the act, method, or result of grouping notes into musical phrases

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Phrasing Phras"ing, n. 1. Method of expression; association of words. 2. (Mus.) The act or method of grouping the notes so as to form distinct musical phrases.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Phrase Phrase, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Phrased; p. pr. & vb. n. Phrasing.] [Cf. F. phraser.] To express in words, or in peculiar words; to call; to style. ``These suns -- for so they phrase 'em.'' --Shak.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

The phrasing of something that is said or written is the exact words that are chosen to express the ideas in it. The phrasing of the question was vague. = wording N-UNCOUNT: oft N of n

Moby Thesaurus

adaptation, arrangement, choice of words, composition, dialect, diction, expression, formulation, grammar, harmonization, idiom, instrumentation, intonation, language, locution, modulation, orchestration, parlance, phrase, phraseology, preparation, resolution, rhetoric, setting, solution, speech, suspension, talk, tone painting, transcription, usage, use of words, usus loquendi, verbalism, verbiage, wordage, wording