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  • 31verse — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. versification; poetry, prosody, poesy; line; stanza; meter, measure; poem, doggerel; passage. See part. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Composition in poetic form] Syn. poetry, poem, metrical composition,… …

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  • 32verse — [[t]vɜrs[/t]] n. v. versed, vers•ing 1) pro one of the lines of a poem 2) pro a particular type of metrical line or composition: hexameter verse; elegaic verse[/ex] 3) pro a poem or a piece of poetry 4) pro metrical composition; poetry, esp. as… …

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  • 33verse — n. & v. n. 1 a metrical composition in general (wrote pages of verse). b a particular type of this (English verse). 2 a a metrical line in accordance with the rules of prosody. b a group of a definite number of such lines. c a stanza of a poem or …

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  • 34Verse Chorus Verse — Song infobox Name = Verse Chorus Verse Artist = Nirvana Album = With the Lights Out Released = November 23, 2004 track no = 12 of disc 2 Recorded = 1991 Genre = Grunge Length = 3:17 Writer = Kurt Cobain Label = Geffen Producer = Butch Vig prev =… …

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  • 35Verse (poetry) — A verse is generally considered to be a single line in a metrical composition, e.g. poetry. However, the use of verse has come to represent any division or grouping of words in such a composition, which traditionally had been referred to as a… …

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  • 36verse — [OE] Verse is one of a large family of English words that come ultimately from the Latin verb vertere or its past participial stem vers . Others include versatile [17], version [16], versus [15], vertebra, vertical, and vertigo, as well as… …

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  • 37verse — [OE] Verse is one of a large family of English words that come ultimately from the Latin verb vertere or its past participial stem vers . Others include versatile [17], version [16], versus [15], vertebra, vertical, and vertigo, as well as… …

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  • 38line of poetry — noun a single line of words in a poem • Syn: ↑line of verse • Hypernyms: ↑line • Hyponyms: ↑acatalectic, ↑Alexandrine, ↑catalectic, ↑hypercatalectic …

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  • 39line of verse — noun a single line of words in a poem • Syn: ↑line of poetry • Hypernyms: ↑line • Hyponyms: ↑acatalectic, ↑Alexandrine, ↑catalectic, ↑hypercatalectic …

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  • 40line — line1 linable, lineable, adj. lineless, adj. linelike, adj. /luyn/, n., v., lined, lining. n. 1. a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page. 2. Math. a …

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