Phase Feɪz Design Project Moon Noun Bre First/Next/Last

• during the first/next/last phase
• the initial/final phase of the project
• a critical/decisive phase
• the design phase

phase

1. a stage in a process of change or development
• during the first/next/last phase
• the initial/final phase of the project
• a critical/decisive phase
• the design phase
• His anxiety about the work was just a passing phase.
• She's going through a difficult phase.
• The wedding marked the beginning of a new phase in Emma's life.
2. 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
3. working/not working together in the right way
• The traffic lights were out of phase.

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 calendar highlighting the phases of the moon
• 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
• His anxiety about the work was just a passing phase.
• 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.
• The wedding marked the beginning of a new phase in Emma’s life.
• We are now entering a critical phase of the campaign.

Word Origin

• early 19th cent. (in sense (2)): from French phase, based on Greek phasis ‘appearance’, from the base of phainein ‘to show’.