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Sonnet vs Sinnet - What's the difference?

sonnet | sinnet |

As nouns the difference between sonnet and sinnet

is that sonnet is a fixed verse form of italian origin consisting of fourteen lines that are typically five-foot iambics and rhyme according to one of a few prescribed schemes while sinnet is (nautical) a braided cord.

As a verb sonnet

is to compose sonnets.

sonnet

English

(wikipedia sonnet)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of fourteen lines that are typically five-foot iambics and rhyme according to one of a few prescribed schemes.

    • See also

    * poem * English sonnet * Italian sonnet * quatorzain

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To compose sonnets.
  • * Milton
    • Strains that come almost to sonneting .

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    sinnet

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) a braided cord
  • :* 2004': Last night, the men were gathered on the foredeck laying up grass into '''sinnet for ropes by lantern-light & the prohibition on ‘supernuminaries’ on the foredeck seemed not to apply. — David Mitchell, ''Cloud Atlas

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