Verse

Verse

Not be confused with versus (disambiguation)

Verse may refer to:

Contents

Poetry

  • Verse (poetry), a metrical structure, a stanza
  • Blank verse is a type of poetry having regular meter but no rhyme
  • Free verse is a type of poetry written without the use of strict meter or rhyme, but is still recognized as poetry
  • Versed, 2009 collection of poetry by Rae Armantrout
  • Verse, an occasional synonym for poetry

Religion

Music

  • Verse (band), a hardcore punk band
  • Verse (rapper) (b. 1986), British hip hop artist
  • Verse (popular music), roughly corresponds to a poetic stanza
  • Verse-chorus form, a musical form common in popular music where the chorus is highlighted
  • Verses (Apallut), a 2001 album by the Alaskan group Pamyua
  • Verse, a 2002 album by Patricia Barber
  • Ben Mount (b. 1977), also known as The Verse or MC Verse, British rapper, producer and record label owner.

Other uses

  • Verse protocol, a networking protocol allowing real-time communication between computer graphics software
  • Verse, a river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

See also

  • Versus (disambiguation)

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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

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