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/verrs/, n., adj., v., versed, versing.n.1. (not in technical use) a stanza.2. a succession of metrical feet written, printed, or orally composed as one line; one of the lines of a poem.3. a particular type of metrical line: a hexameter verse.4. a poem, or piece of poetry.5. metrical composition; poetry, esp. as involving metrical form.6. metrical writing distinguished from poetry because of its inferior quality: a writer of verse, not poetry.7. a particular type of metrical composition: elegiac verse.8. the collective poetry of an author, period, nation, etc.: Miltonian verse; American verse.9. one of the short conventional divisions of a chapter of the Bible.10. Music.a. that part of a song following the introduction and preceding the chorus.b. a part of a song designed to be sung by a solo voice.11. Rare. a line of prose, esp. a sentence, or part of a sentence, written as one line.12. Rare. a subdivision in any literary work.adj.13. of, pertaining to, or written in verse: a verse play.v.i.14. versify.v.t.15. to express in verse.[bef. 900; ME vers(e), fers line of poetry, section of a psalm, OE fers < L versus a row, line (of poetry), lit., a turning, equiv. to vert(ere) to turn (ptp. versus) + -tus suffix of v. action, with dt > s; akin to -WARD, WORTH2]Syn. 1. VERSE, STANZA, STROPHE, STAVE are terms for a metrical grouping in poetic composition. VERSE is often mistakenly used for STANZA, but is properly only a single metrical line. A STANZA is a succession of lines (verses) commonly bound together by a rhyme scheme, and usually forming one of a series of similar groups that constitute a poem: The four-line stanza is the one most frequently used in English.STROPHE (originally the section of a Greek choral ode sung while the chorus was moving from right to left) is in English poetry practically equivalent to "section"; a STROPHE may be unrhymed or without strict form, but may be a stanza: Strophes are divisions of odes. STAVE is a word (now seldom used) that means a stanza set to music or intended to be sung: a stave of a hymn; a stave of a drinking song. 4, 5, 6. See poetry.
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Verse — Verse … Deutsch Wörterbuch
verse — [ vɛrs ] n. f. • 1680; à la verse 1640; de verser 1 ♦ Loc. adv. À VERSE, se dit de la pluie qui tombe en abondance. Il pleuvait à verse. ⇒ averse. « La pluie tombait à verse [...] mais, bravant le mauvais temps, un peuple immense s acheminait »… … Encyclopédie Universelle
versé — verse [ vɛrs ] n. f. • 1680; à la verse 1640; de verser 1 ♦ Loc. adv. À VERSE, se dit de la pluie qui tombe en abondance. Il pleuvait à verse. ⇒ averse. « La pluie tombait à verse [...] mais, bravant le mauvais temps, un peuple immense s… … Encyclopédie Universelle
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},… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
verse — 1. (vèr s ) s. f. 1° Terme d agriculture. État des céréales couchées à terre par la pluie ou toute autre cause. La verse des blés. 2° Terme d eaux et forêts. Grande corbeille de charbon, qui en contient 35 livres. 3° À verse, loc. adv. Se… … Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré
Verse — Die Verse am Bremecker Hammer in LüdenscheidVorlage:Infobox Fluss/KARTE fehlt … Deutsch Wikipedia
versé — versé, ée (vèr sé, sée) part. passé de verser. 1° Qui a coulé hors de ce qui le contenait. Vin versé. Sang versé. Fig. • Les grâces, les honneurs par moi seule versés, RAC. Brit. III, 4. 2° Renversé. Voiture versée. Blés versés. Foin… … Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré
verse — [və:s US və:rs] n [Date: 900 1000; : Old French; Origin: vers, from Latin versus turning, verse , from vertere to turn ] 1.) a set of lines that forms one part of a song, poem, or a book such as the Bible or the Koran ▪ Let s sing the last verse… … Dictionary of contemporary English
verse — 1 Verse, stanza both mean a unit of metrical writing. Verse is both wider and more varied in its popular usage since it can denote a single line of such writing, such writing as a class, or, along with stanza, a group of lines forming a division… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
versé — Versé, [vers]ée. part. Il signifie aussi, Exercé, experimenté. C est un homme bien versé dans les finances, dans les negociations. il est versé dans la lecture des poëtes. versé dans la philosophie … Dictionnaire de l'Académie française
verse — [vʉrs] n. [ME vers < OE fers & OFr vers, both < L versus, a turning, verse, line, row, pp. of vertere, to turn < IE * wert , to turn < base * wer > WARP, WORM, WARDS] 1. a sequence of words arranged metrically in accordance with… … English World dictionary
