Morae vs Haiku - What's the difference?
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(mora)
(Scottish law) A delay in bringing a claim.
(poetics) A unit used to measure lines and stanzas of poetry.
* 1918 , Elcanon Isaacs, “The Metrical Basis of Hebrew Poetry”, in The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures , volume 35,
(phonology) A unit of syllable weight used in phonology, by which stress, foot structure, or timing of utterance is determined in some languages (e.g. Japanese).
(botany) Any tree of the genus Mora of large South American trees.
* 1904 , W.H. Hudson, Green Mansions, A Romance of the Tropical Forest
(finger-counting game)
An ancient Spartan military unit of about a sixth of the Spartan army, typically composed of hoplites.
A Japanese poem of a specific form, consisting of three lines, the first and last consisting of five morae, and the second consisting of seven morae, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme.
* {{quote-news, 2009, January 25, Colin Moynihan, A Project Documents Inauguration Day, in Washington and Across the Globe, New York Times
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A three-line poem in any language, with five syllables in the first and last lines and seven syllables in the second, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme.
English plurals
As nouns the difference between morae and haiku
is that morae is irregular plural of mora while haiku is a Japanese poem of a specific form, consisting of three lines, the first and last consisting of five morae, and the second consisting of seven morae, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme.morae
English
Noun
(head)Anagrams
* * * ----mora
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en-noun)page 22:
- In the quantitative meters in Sanskrit a heavy syllable is considered to be equal to two morae' and a light syllable equivalent to one ' mora .
See also
* syllableDerived terms
* bimoraic * monomoraic * moraic * moraically * nonmoraicEtymology 2
New Latin from a botanical name, perhaps from Tupi.Noun
(en noun)- At length, somewhere about the centre of the wood, she led me to an immense mora tree, growing almost isolated, covering with its shade a large space of ground entirely free from undergrowth.
Etymology 3
Synonyms
* (common mora) ribaldo, (goodly-eyed cod) (US), (googly-eyed cod) (NZ)Etymology 4
Noun
(-)Etymology 5
From the (etyl) .Noun
(morai)Anagrams
* English nouns with irregular plurals ----haiku
English
Noun
(en-noun)citation
- Haiku, a poem
- five beats, then seven, then five
- ends as it began.