Phase

(noun.) (astronomy) the particular appearance of a body's state of illumination (especially one of the recurring shapes of the part of Earth's moon that is illuminated by the sun); 'the full phase of the moon'.

(noun.) (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary; 'the reaction occurs in the liquid phase of the system'.

(noun.) a particular point in the time of a cycle; measured from some arbitrary zero and expressed as an angle.

(noun.) any distinct time period in a sequence of events; 'we are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejected'.

(verb.) adjust so as to be in a synchronized condition; 'he phased the intake with the output of the machine'.

(verb.) arrange in phases or stages; 'phase a withdrawal'.

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• The object is but a phase of the active end,--continuing the activity successfully. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Chemistry plays a part in every phase of life; in the arts, the industries, the household, and in the body itself, where digestion, excretion, etc. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• But every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Before my eyes, too, his disposition seemed to unfold another phase; to pass to a fresh day: to rise in new and nobler dawn. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The English mind again had a phase of brightness in the seventh and eighth centuries, and it did not shine again until the fifteenth. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The significance of habit is not exhausted, however, in its executive and motor phase. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• And now begins a new phase in the story of Alexander. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The taking of pictures is, of course, one of the interesting phases of the business from a popular standpoint. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• They had their undercurrent of fables and superstitions, their phases of fear and abjection and sacrificial fury. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But from the phases of the moon, as his tillage increased, man's attitude would go on to the greater cycle of the seasons. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It is of course possible to classify in a general way the various valuable phases of life. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Moist phases mean, on the other hand, cooler days and warmer nights. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Phases of spreading and intermixture have probably alternated with phases of settlement and specialization in the history of mankind. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• These interesting phases of development of the old chemistry have been followed by the new theory of substitution, by Dumas and others. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.

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