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subphrase

subphrase noun: a phrase making up part of a larger phrase.

Noun

subphrase (plural subphrases)

  1. A phrase making up part of a larger phrase.
    • Unsupervised methods for identifying "phrases", mining subphrase structure and finding words in a fully automated way are described.2016, Stefan Gerdjikov, Klaus U. Schulz, “Corpus analysis without prior linguistic knowledge - unsupervised mining of phrases and subphrase structure”, in arXiv

Forms of subphrase

pluralsubphrases

Origin of subphrase

From sub- + phrase.

Questions about subphrase

What does subphrase mean?
Subphrase means a phrase making up part of a larger phrase.
What part of speech is subphrase?
Subphrase is a noun.
What is the plural of subphrase?
The plural of subphrase is subphrases.

Words near subphrase in the dictionary

  1. subphonemic
  2. subphosphide
  3. subphosphides
  4. subphotic
  5. subphotospheric
  6. subphrase
  7. subphrases
  8. subphratries
  9. subphratry
  10. subphrenic
  11. subphrenically

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