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Verve vs Varve - What's the difference?

verve | varve |

As nouns the difference between verve and varve

is that verve is while varve is nystagmus.

verve

English

Noun

(-)
  • Excitement of imagination such as that which animates a poet, artist, or musician, in composing or performing
  • artistic energy and enthusiasm
  • vigour, vitality and liveliness
  • *{{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 9 , author=Mandeep Sanghera , title=Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=After spending so much of the season looking upwards, the swashbuckling style and swagger of early season Spurs was replaced by uncertainty and frustration against a Norwich side who had the quality and verve to take advantage}}
  • rapture, enthusiasm
  • spirit, energy
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    varve

    English

    (wikipedia varve)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geology) An annual layer of sediment or sedimentary rock.
  • *2011 , (Chris Stringer), The Origin of Our Species , Penguin 2012, p. 37:
  • *:A comparable method uses varves' […] where spans of time can be measured through counting '''varves''', and also by radiocarbon dating plant or animal residues within the ' varves .

    • See also

    * rhythmite