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Chant vs Rhyme - What's the difference?

chant | rhyme |

As verbs the difference between chant and rhyme

is that chant is to sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music while rhyme is to number; count; reckon.

As nouns the difference between chant and rhyme

is that chant is type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony while rhyme is number.

chant

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic) chaunt

Verb

(en verb)
  • To sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music.
  • * Spenser
    • The cheerful birds do chant sweet music.
  • To sing or intone sacred text.

    • Noun

    (wikipedia chant) (en noun)
  • Type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony.
  • (music) A short and simple melody, divided into two parts by double bars, to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited. It is the most ancient form of choral music.
  • Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone.
  • * Macaulay
    • His strange face, his strange chant .
  • A repetitive song, typically an incantation or part of a ritual.

    • Related terms

    * enchant * Gregorian chant * incantation

    Anagrams

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    rhyme

    English

    (wikipedia rhyme)

    Alternative forms

    * (l) * (l) (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (obsolete) Number.
  • (countable, uncountable) Rhyming verse (poetic form)
    • Many editors say they don't want stories written in rhyme .
  • A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse.
    • Tennyson’s rhymes
  • (countable) A word that rhymes with another.
    • Norse poetry is littered with rhymes''' like "'''s'''ól ... '''s unnan".
    Rap makes use of rhymes such as "money ... honey" and "nope ... dope".
  • # (countable, in particular) A word that rhymes with another, in that it is pronounced identically with the other word from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.
  • "Awake" is a rhyme for "lake".
  • (uncountable) Rhyming: sameness of sound of part of some words.
    • The poem exhibits a peculiar form of rhyme .
  • (countable, uncountable) Rhyming verse (poetic form).
  • (linguistics)

    • Hyponyms

    * stave-rhyme, end rhyme * internal rhyme, cross rhyme * half rhyme, near rhyme: ** pararhyme, slant rhyme * full rhyme, perfect rhyme, exact rhyme, true rhyme

    Derived terms

    * rhyme or reason * eye rhyme * female rhyme * male rhyme * rhyme royal * sight rhyme * nursery rhyme

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To number; count; reckon.
  • (ambitransitive) To compose or treat in verse; versify.
  • * 1742 , , The Dunciad , book 4, lines 101-102:
    • There marched the bard and blockhead, side by side,
    Who rhymed for hire, and patronized for pride.
  • Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.
    • "Creation" rhymes with "integration" and "station".
  • (reciprocal) Of two or more words, to be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each.
    • "Mug" and "rug" rhyme .
    "India" and "windier" rhyme with each other in non-rhotic accents.
  • To put words together so that they rhyme.
    • I rewrote it to make it rhyme .

    Derived terms

    * rhyme off * rhyming slang