Stanza vs Lines - What's the difference?
stanza | lines |
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
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(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.
As nouns the difference between stanza and lines
is that stanza is room while lines is .As a verb lines is
(line).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 .
Derived terms
* stanzaicSee also
* stropheAnagrams
* ----lines
English
Noun
(head) (plural )- If you don't behave I'll give you lines
- I had to write out 200 lines