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Epic vs Elegy - What's the difference?

epic | elegy |

As nouns the difference between epic and elegy

is that epic is an extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity or demigod (heroic epic) or other legendary or traditional hero while elegy is a mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation.

As an initialism EPIC

is explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing.

As an adjective epic

is of, or relating to, an epic.

epic

English

Initialism

(Initialism) (head)
  • (computing) Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing.
  • (electronics) Etched and Polycrystalline carried IC.
  • (electronics) Epitaxial Integrated Circuit.
  • (legal) Estates and Protected Individuals Code.

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    elegy

    English

    (wikipedia elegy)

    Noun

    (elegies)
  • A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation.

    • Synonyms

    * dirge, threnody

    Coordinate terms

    * requiem – a piece of music played at a mass for the dead

    Derived terms

    * elegiac

    See also

    * eulogy – similar sounding funeral word

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