phase
part of speech
noun (a phase, phases); verb (phase in, phase out)
meaning for a pupil
1) A phase is one stage of something that changes over time. tree →
2) The phases of the Moon are the different shapes the Moon seems to have during a month. tree →
3) A phase can be a short time when someone likes or does something a lot. tree →
4) To phase something out means to stop using it slowly, step by step. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science, the Moon's phases go new moon, crescent, first quarter, gibbous, full moon and back, about every 29.5 days, because we see different amounts of its sunlit side. In science of matter, the states solid, liquid and gas are sometimes called phases. In everyday talk, parents say a child is «going through a phase». Phrases: phases of the Moon, a new phase, going through a phase, phase out.
examples
- The Moon has different phases every month. tree →
- Tonight the Moon is in its full moon phase. tree →
- Draw the phases of the Moon in order. tree →
- A caterpillar goes through several phases to become a butterfly. tree →
- My brother is going through a dinosaur phase. tree →
- The building work is in its last phase. tree →
- Plastic straws are being phased out. tree →
- A crescent is the thinnest phase of the Moon we can see. tree →
note
Countable: a phase, phases. The ph is said like f: «faze». Do not confuse with «faze», which means to worry or confuse. The Moon does not really change shape; only the lit part we see changes.
In the corpora
- Schools teach the sounds in a planned order, in stages called phases or sets.
- "Going through a phase" means behaving badly for a while.
- The Moon is often visible in the daytime sky, depending on its phase.
- The Moon's phases happen because we see different amounts of its sunlit half as it orbits the Earth.
- The phases are not caused by the Earth's shadow; this is a common mistake.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «phase» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.