Lament vs Stanza - What's the difference?
lament | stanza |
To express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn.
* Bible, John xvi. 20
To feel great sorrow or regret; to bewail.
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* Dryden
A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse.
(architecture) An apartment or division in a building.
(computing) A structural element in XML
* 2009 , Tim Riley, Adam Goucher, Beautiful Testing: Leading Professionals Reveal How They Improve Software
* 2009 , John Rittinghouse, James F. Ransome, Cloud Computing: Implementation, Management, and Security
As nouns the difference between lament and stanza
is that lament is an expression of grief, suffering, or sadness while stanza is room.As a verb lament
is to express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn.lament
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Derived terms
* (l) (rare)Verb
(en verb)- Ye shall weep and lament , but the world shall rejoice.
Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian , 18 October 2014:
- By the end, Sunderland were lucky to lose by the same scoreline Northampton Town suffered against Southampton, in 1921. The Sunderland manager, Gus Poyet, lamented that it was “the most embarrassed I’ve ever been on a football pitch, without a doubt”.
- One laughed at follies, one lamented crimes.
Synonyms
* bewailExternal links
* *Anagrams
* * * * ----stanza
English
Noun
(en noun)- Whenever an XMPP client generates an XML stanza , it typically constructs the XML of the stanza by building up a structured document...
- Technically speaking, federation is the ability for two XMPP servers in different domains to exchange XML stanzas .