Found 4 items, similar to verse.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: verse
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Definition: verse
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: verse
verse
n 1: literature in metrical form [syn:
poetry,
poesy]
2: a piece of poetry [syn:
rhyme]
3: a line of metrical text [syn:
verse line]
v 1: compose verses or put into verse;
“He versified the ancient
saga” [syn:
versify,
poetize,
poetise]
2: familiarize through thorough study or experience;
“She
versed herself in Roman archeology”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Verse
Verse
\Verse\, n. [OE. vers, AS. fers, L. versus a line in
writing, and, in poetry, a verse, from vertere, versum, to
turn, to turn round; akin to E. worth to become: cf. F. vers.
See
Worth to become, and cf.
Advertise,
Averse,
Controversy,
Convert,
Divers,
Invert,
Obverse,
Prose,
Suzerain,
Vortex.]
1. A line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet
(see
Foot, n., 9) disposed according to metrical rules.
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Note: Verses are of various kinds, as hexameter, pentameter,
tetrameter, etc., according to the number of feet in
each. A verse of twelve syllables is called an
Alexandrine. Two or more verses form a stanza or
strophe.
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2. Metrical arrangement and language; that which is composed
in metrical form; versification; poetry.
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Such prompt eloquence
Flowed from their lips in prose or numerous verse.
--Milton.
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Virtue was taught in verse. --Prior.
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Verse embalms virtue. --Donne.
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3. A short division of any composition. Specifically:
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(a) A stanza; a stave; as, a hymn of four verses.
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Note: Although this use of verse is common, it is
objectionable, because not always distinguishable from
the stricter use in the sense of a line.
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(b) (Script.) One of the short divisions of the chapters
in the Old and New Testaments.
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Note: The author of the division of the Old Testament into
verses is not ascertained. The New Testament was
divided into verses by Robert Stephens [or Estienne], a
French printer. This arrangement appeared for the first
time in an edition printed at Geneva, in 1551.
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(c) (Mus.) A portion of an anthem to be performed by a
single voice to each part.
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4. A piece of poetry.
“This verse be thine.” --Pope.
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Blank verse, poetry in which the lines do not end in
rhymes.
Heroic verse. See under
Heroic.
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Verse
\Verse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Versed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Versing.]
To tell in verse, or poetry. [Obs.]
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Playing on pipes of corn and versing love. --Shak.
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Verse
\Verse\, v. i.
To make verses; to versify. [Obs.]
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It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet. --Sir
P. Sidney.
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