Vignette vs Prose - What's the difference?
vignette | prose |
(architecture) A running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture.
(printing) A decorative design, originally representing vine branches or tendrils, at the head of a chapter, of a manuscript or printed book, or in a similar position.
(by extension) Any small borderless picture in a book, especially an engraving, photograph, or the like, which vanishes gradually at the edge.
(by extension) A short story or anecdote that presents a scene or tableau, or paints a picture.
The small picture on a postage stamp.
(photography) The characteristic of a camera lens, either by deficiency in design or by mismatch of the lens with the film format, to produce an image smaller than the film's frame with a crudely focused border. Photographers may deliberately choose this characteristic for a special effect.
To make, as an engraving or a photograph, with a border or edge gradually fading away.
Language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry.
* Milton
Language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse.
(Roman Catholicism) A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass.
to write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way
* 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act I, Scene II, verses 189-190
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As nouns the difference between vignette and prose
is that vignette is a running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture while prose is language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry.As verbs the difference between vignette and prose
is that vignette is to make, as an engraving or a photograph, with a border or edge gradually fading away while prose is to write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way.vignette
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* vignetter * vignettistSee also
* colophon * coronisVerb
(vignett)Derived terms
* vignetting ----prose
English
(wikipedia prose)Noun
(en-noun)- Though known mostly for her prose , she also produced a small body of excellent poems.
- things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme
Antonyms
* poetry, verseDerived terms
* prose poem * purple proseVerb
- Pray, do not prose , good Ethelbert, but speak
- What is your purpose?
