Assert and Phrase

verb

• State categorically.
  • synonyms: asseverate, maintain
• To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true.
  • usage: "Before God I swear I am innocent"
  • synonyms: affirm, verify, avow, aver, swan, swear
• Insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized.
  • usage: "Women should assert themselves more"
  • synonyms: put forward
• Assert to be true.
  • usage: "The letter asserts a free society"
  • synonyms: insist

• (v.t.) To maintain; to defend.
• (v.t.) To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.
• (v.t.) To affirm; to declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

noun

• An expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence.
• A short musical passage.
  • synonyms: musical phrase
• An expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up.
  • synonyms: idiom, idiomatic expression, phrasal idiom, set phrase
• Dance movements that are linked in a single choreographic sequence.

verb

• Put into words or an expression.
  • usage: "He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees"
  • synonyms: give voice, formulate, word, articulate
• Divide, combine, or mark into phrases.
  • usage: "phrase a musical passage"

• (v.i.) To group notes into phrases; as, he phrases well. See Phrase, n., 4.
• (v.t.) To express in words or in peculiar words; to call; to style.
• (n.) A brief expression, sometimes a single word, but usually two or more words forming an expression by themselves or being a portion of a sentence; as, an adverbial phrase.
• (n.) A short clause or portion of a period.
• (v.i.) To use proper or fine phrases.
• (n.) A mode or form of speech; the manner or style in which any one expreses himself; diction; expression.
• (n.) A short, pithy expression; especially, one which is often employed; a peculiar or idiomatic turn of speech; as, to err is human.