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JMdictsection (i.e. of text); sentence; passage; paragraph
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JMdictverse (of 5 or 7 mora in Japanese poetry; of 4, 5, or 7 characters in Chinese poetry)
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JMdicthaiku; first 17 morae of a renga, etc.
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JMdictmaxim; saying; idiom; expression
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JMdict computingclause (e.g. in a database query language)
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In everyday speech, a phrase may be any group of words, often carrying a special idiomatic meaning; in this sense it is roughly synonymous with expression. In linguistic analysis, a phrase is a group of words (or possibly a single word)…
Read full article on Wikipedia · CC-BY-SAIn everyday speech, a phrase may be any group of words, often carrying a special idiomatic meaning; in this sense it is roughly synonymous with expression. In linguistic analysis, a phrase is a group of words (or possibly a single word) that functions as a constituent in the syntax of a sentence, a single unit within a grammatical hierarchy. A phrase appears within a clause, but it is possible also for a phrase to be a clause or to contain a clause within it.
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