Lines vs Verse - What's the difference?
lines | verse |
(fortifications, in the plural) Dispositions made to cover extended positions, and presenting a front in but one direction to an enemy.
(shipbuilding, in the plural) Form of a vessel as shown by the outlines of vertical, horizontal, and oblique sections.
(education, in the plural) A school punishment in which a student must repeatedly write out a line of text related to the offence (e.g. "I must be quiet in class") a specified number of times; the lines of text so written out.
(US, in the plural) The reins with which a horse is guided by his driver.
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.
* , chapter=22
, title= (colloquial) To oppose, to be an opponent for, as in a game, contest or battle.
As nouns the difference between lines and verse
is that lines is while verse is dew, dampness.As a verb lines
is (line).lines
English
Noun
(head) (plural )- If you don't behave I'll give you lines
- I had to write out 200 lines
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* * ----verse
English
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.