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Verse vs Meter - What's the difference?

verse | meter |

As nouns the difference between verse and meter

is that verse is dew, dampness while meter is meter (unit of measure, 100 cm).

verse

English

Etymology 1

Partly from (etyl) vers; partly, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
    • Derived terms
    * blank verse * free verse
    Related terms
    * versification * versify

    Verb

    (vers)
  • (obsolete) To compose verses.
  • * Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
    • It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet.
  • To tell in verse, or poetry.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • playing on pipes of corn and versing love

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (vers)
  • to educate about, to teach about.
  • * , chapter=22
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.

    Etymology 3

    Back-formation from versus, misconstrued as a third-person singular verb *verses .

    Verb

    (vers)
  • (colloquial) To oppose, to be an opponent for, as in a game, contest or battle.

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    meter

    English

    Alternative forms

    * metre (Commonwealth English for noun senses 4 to 7, rare for other senses)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (always meter ) A device that measures things.
  • (always meter ) A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.
    • gas meter
  • (always meter ) (dated) One who metes or measures.
  • (chiefly, US, elsewhere metre) The base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), conceived of as 1/10000000 of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator, and now defined as the distance light will travel in a vacuum in 1/299792458 second.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner
    • , title= An Acoustic Arms Race , volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter ) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.}}
  • (chiefly, US, elsewhere metre) (music) An increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number of beats in a measure.
  • (chiefly, US, elsewhere metre, prosody) The rhythm pattern in a poem.
  • (chiefly, US, elsewhere metre) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.
  • (obsolete) A poem.

    • Derived terms

    * altimeter * centimeter * common meter * feed the meter * kilometer * long meter * metric * metrical * millimeter * odometer * pedometer * pentameter * short meter * spectropolarimeter * tachymeter * tetrameter

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to measure with a metering device.
  • to imprint a postage mark with a postage meter

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