phase
noun OPAL WOPAL S
/feɪz/
/feɪz/
Idioms - a stage in a process of change or development
- during the initial/final phase
- the construction/development/design phase
- the testing phase of the project
- This technology is still in an early phase of development.
- phase in something an important phase in your career
- The wedding marked the beginning of a new phase in Emma's life.
- His anxiety about the work was just a passing phase.
- During his stay in Spain, his work entered a new phase.
- She's going through a difficult phase.
- The semester was divided into three phases of study.
Extra Examples- In the earliest phase of mental disorder, relatives feel confused.
- It's just a phase he's going through.
- Society has entered a technological phase of evolution.
- The co-op is still in the start-up phase.
- The period can be divided into three distinct phases.
- The process is still in its testing phase.
- a new phase in the European economy
- as the team reaches the later phases of product development
- during the planning phase of an operation
- early in the project's design phase
- the acute phase of the disease
- the main Catholic rituals that mark important phases in a person's life
- Most teenagers go through a difficult phase.
- The basic idea is elaborated during the design phase.
- The initial phase of the project will last six months.
- We are now entering a critical phase of the campaign.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- early
- first
- initial
- …
- begin
- enter
- initiate
- …
- during a/the phase
- in a/the phase
- phase in
- …
- each of the shapes of the moon as we see it from the earth at different times of the month
- the phases of the moon
Word Originearly 19th cent. (in sense (2)): from French phase, based on Greek phasis ‘appearance’, from the base of phainein ‘to show’.
Idioms
in phase/out of phase (with something)
- (British English) working/not working together in the right way
- The traffic lights were out of phase.