To employ peculiar phrases or forms of speech; ex press one's self.
In music, to divide a piece in performance into short sections or phrases, so as to bring out the metrical and harmonic form of the whole, and make it musically intelligible; also, to perform any group of tones without pause.
To express or designate by a particular phrase or term; call; style.
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A brief expression; more specifically, two or more words expressing what is practically a single notion, and thus performing the office of a single part of speech, or entering with a certain degree of unity into the structure of a sentence.
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A peculiar or characteristic expression; a mode of expression peculiar to a language; an idiom.
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The manner or style in which a person ex presses himself; diction; phraseology; language; also, an expression, or a form of expression.
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In music, a short and somewhat independent division or part of a piece, less complete than a period, and usually closing with a cadence or a half-cadence.
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In fencing, a period between the beginning and end of a short passage at arms between fencers during which there is no pause, each fencer thrusting and parrying in turn
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See the adjectives.
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Synonyms See term.