Epic vs Verse - What's the difference?
epic | verse |
(computing) Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing.
(electronics) Etched and Polycrystalline carried IC.
(electronics) Epitaxial Integrated Circuit.
(legal) Estates and Protected Individuals Code.
A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.
Poetic form in general.
One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed.
A small section of the Jewish or Christian Bible.
(obsolete) To compose verses.
* Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
To tell in verse, or poetry.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
to educate about, to teach about.
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, title= (colloquial) To oppose, to be an opponent for, as in a game, contest or battle.
As nouns the difference between epic and verse
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 verse is a poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.As an initialism EPIC
is explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing.As an adjective epic
is of, or relating to, an epic.As a verb verse is
to compose verses.epic
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Initialism
(Initialism) (head)See also
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* *verse
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Etymology 1
Partly from (etyl) vers; partly, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* blank verse * free verseVerb
(vers)- It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet.
- playing on pipes of corn and versing love
Etymology 2
Verb
(vers)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.