All 3 Uses of
phase
in
The Great Gatsby
- It was sharply different from the West, where an evening was hurried from phase to phase toward its close, in a continually disappointed anticipation or else in sheer nervous dread of the moment itself.
p. 12.6phase = a period of time or a stage during the development of something
- It was sharply different from the West, where an evening was hurried from phase to phase toward its close, in a continually disappointed anticipation or else in sheer nervous dread of the moment itself.
p. 12.6
- I remember the portrait of him up in Gatsby's bedroom, a gray, florid man with a hard, empty face — the pioneer debauchee, who during one phase of American life brought back to the Eastern seaboard the savage violence of the frontier brothel and saloon.
p. 100.7 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(phase as in: during the first phase) a period of time or a stage during the development of something
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(2)
(phase as in: she's going through a phase) a period of time when someone exhibits unusual behavior
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(3)
(phase as in: phased in over three years) make a change gradually (phase in = gradually add; phase out = gradually removed)