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Answer for the clue "What outer space is that cyberspace isn't? ", 6 letters:
phrase

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES borrow a phrase (= use what someone else has said ) ▪ To borrow a phrase , if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. prepositional phrase COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE famous ▪ Neville Chamberlain's ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to put into a phrase," 1560s; see phrase (n.). Related: Phrased ; phrasing .

Usage examples of phrase.

The mistress of the house was fond of ready-made phrases, and she adopted this one, about Julien, very pleased at having invited an academician to dine with them.

She had the careful almost accentless voice of the language student, and her phrases seemed to have been adopted whole from the speech of the grownups around her.

Beethoven adagios, of which we find the most beautiful specimens naturally among the orchestral pieces and in the chamber music, where he could depend upon the long phrases and sustained tones of the violins.

The chief secret, however, of the origin of the peculiar phrases under consideration consisted in their striking fitness to the nature and facts of the case, their adaptedness to express these facts in a bold and vivid manner.

Arguments that may now be adduced to prove that the first eight Amendments were concealed within the historic phrasing of the Fourteenth Amendment were not unknown at the time of its adoption.

In a way, the adjective following the noun is treated as an extension of the noun proper, and so the case ending is added at the end of the whole phrase.

If you use an adjective to describe a physical attribute, make sure the phrase is not only accurate and sensory but fresh.

Often, the easiest way to avoid an adjective-based cliche is to free the phrase entirely from its adjective modifier.

There are certain times when an adverb or an adverbial phrase can be used to establish the motivation.

They are like the colossal strides of approaching Fate, and this awfulness is twice raised to a higher power, first by a searching, syncopated phrase in the violins which hovers loweringly over them, and next by a succession of afrighted minor scales ascending crescendo and descending piano, the change in dynamics beginning abruptly as the crest of each terrifying wave is reached.

He searches out pattern in the music of a phrase or the spell of an anagram, in the shapes of time or the weave of the universe.

He thought it might be an anagram, since the phrase makes little sense.

Cushions and bedclothes were scattered everywhere, colourful animatic dolls waddled around, either laughing or repeating their catch phrases.

The story is of course apocryphal, but it was widely told as a joke and thus perhaps is responsible for the popularity of the phrase.

The chanting was picked up by others, and soon most of the people were deeply involved in a mesmerizing sequence that consisted of repetitive phrases sung in a pulsating beat with little change in tone, alternating with arrhythmic drumming that had more tonal variation than the voices.