Utterance vs Mora - What's the difference?
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An act of uttering.
* (John Milton)
Something spoken.
* , chapter=13
, title= * 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
The ability to speak.
Manner of speaking.
* Bible, Acts ii. 4
* (John Keats)
(obsolete) Sale by offering to the public.
(obsolete) Putting in circulation.
The utmost extremity (of a fight etc.).
*:
*:And soo they mette soo hard / that syre Palomydes felle to the erthe hors and alle / Thenne sir Bleoberis cryed a lowde and said thus / make the redy thou fals traytour knyghte Breuse saunce pyte / for wete thow certaynly I wille haue adoo with the to the vtteraunce for the noble knyghtes and ladyes that thou hast falsly bitraid
(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.
As nouns the difference between utterance and mora
is that utterance is an act of uttering or utterance can be the utmost extremity (of a fight etc) while mora is (scottish law) a delay in bringing a claim or mora can be (botany) any tree of the genus mora of large south american trees or mora can be any fish of the genus mora or mora can be (finger-counting game) or mora can be an ancient spartan military unit of about a sixth of the spartan army, typically composed of hoplites.utterance
English
Alternative forms
* utteraunceEtymology 1
FromNoun
(en noun)- at length gave utterance to these words
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances . He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.}}
- To know how one should express oneself in saying or judging that there really are falsehoods without getting caught up in contradiction by such an utterance : that's extremely difficult, Theaetetus.
- Theybegan to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance .
- O, how unlike / To that large utterance of the early gods!
- (Francis Bacon)
Quotations
* Mathematics and Poetry are... the utterance of the same power of imagination, only that in the one case it is addressed to the head, in the other, to the heart. — Thomas HillEtymology 2
From (etyl) oultrance.Noun
(en noun)References
External links
* *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.
