Verse vs Versus - What's the difference?

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Versus is a related term of verse.

Versus is a descendant of verse.

As a noun verse

is a poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.

As a verb verse

is to compose verses.

As a conjunction versus is

Used to link two or more opposing or contrasting elements.

As a preposition versus is

against, in opposition to.

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

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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versus

English

(wikipedia versus)

Conjunction

(English Conjunctions)

(Used to link two or more opposing or contrasting elements).

Synonyms

* vs,

Preposition

(English prepositions)

against, in opposition to.

It is the Packers versus the Steelers in the Super Bowl.

compared with, as opposed to.

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times citation

, passage=In polling by the Pew Research Center in November 2008, fully half the respondents thought the two parties would cooperate more in the coming year, versus only 36 percent who thought the climate would grow more adversarial. }}

* 2005 , Robert E. Weiss, Modeling Longitudinal Data , Springer, ISBN 978-0-387-40271-0, page 104:

If, for example, we select random people entering a workout gym, versus if we pick random people entering a hospital, we will get very different samples.

Bringing a legal action against, as used in the title of a court case in which the first party indicates the plaintiff (or appellant or the like), and the second indicates the defendant (or respondent or the like).

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans.

Synonyms

* vs,