(n.) A couple of verses or poetic lines making complete sense; an epigram of two verses.
(n.) Alt. of Distichous
Example Sentences:
(1) Only 5 species were found in the native soil sites, and salt grass (Distichlis spicata L.) was the predominant species and accounted for over 80% of the total biomass.
(2) Biomass production, selenium accumulation, and the role of the bioextraction of selenium by salt grass (Distichlis spicata L.) in soils with elevated concentrations of Se and salinity at Kesterson, California, were studied.
(3) Recipient plants had six-rowded (hexastichous) spikes, and donor plants--two rowded (distichous) spikes.
(4) Simultaneously a reversion of hordein composition to the initial mutant type was observed, and the distichous pikes became hexastichous.
Stanza
Definition:
(n.) A number of lines or verses forming a division of a song or poem, and agreeing in meter, rhyme, number of lines, etc., with other divisions; a part of a poem, ordinarily containing every variation of measure in that poem; a combination or arrangement of lines usually recurring; whether like or unlike, in measure.
(n.) An apartment or division in a building; a room or chamber.
Example Sentences:
(1) Danny Welbeck, Chris Smalling and Fabio all scored before the break in a stanza run by Anderson and decorated with flashes of artistry by the promising Wilfried Zaha, before Adnan Januzaj and then Jesse Lingard scored in the second half.
(2) During the opening stanza any threat Steve Clarke's team carried came from aiming direct balls in on Costel Pantilimon's goal.
(3) Manchester United beat Club America in pre-season clash Read more That was about it for the opening stanza, though Luke Shaw made one dashing run at the Earthquakes before the referee, Juan Guzman, blew for the break.
(4) A left staggered Frampton at the start of the final stanza but he held his ground.
(5) In his final years, however, reduced to typing with the thumb of his blasted left hand, Comfort returned to stanza, metre, rhyme.
(6) The gesticulations of Iraq's Serbian coach Vladimir Petrovic in the opening stanza were clearly delivered to his charges at the interval.
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(8) Consider the opening stanza: "Put your flags up in the sky And then wave 'em side to side Show the world where you're from Show the world we are one."
(9) The big plus was the lead United held when the club’s second side of the night took their place for the second stanza.
(10) The minute you hear Christopher Walken intoning the opening stanzas of Burnt Norton – one of TS Eliot's own late quartets – you sense that A Late Quartet plans to mine every last meaning from the words in its title.
(11) Both inflections found in this study reflect an increased rate of pituitary growth in relation to the growth rate of body length in the subsequent stanzas.
(12) In the opening stanza this worked fine as United headed to the break 3-0 up.
(13) The closing stanza was a dangerous dance, Nevin wanting to lead, Campbell wanting to go home.
(14) In a video at Regen Projects, Sweet Land of Liberty, the stanzas of the American patriotic anthem My Country ’Tis of Thee disintegrate in Gates’s singing of them, into the soft, fine romantic dream fragments of “we land of liberty”, “from every mountainside”, and “let freedom ring”.
(15) The first three stanzas are worth quoting: Sexual intercourse began In nineteen sixty-three (which was rather late for me) – Between the end of the "Chatterley" ban And the Beatles' first LP.
(16) Trailing 10-7 at half-time the Chargers scored 20 unanswered points in the second stanza to win NFL playoff on Sunday and advance to the divisional round against the Denver Broncos.
(17) Van Gaal’s second stanza XI were no better than the first.
(18) The punches that felled him were heavy and arrived unseen – a left hook behind the ear in the third round, a glancing right that relieved his unsteady legs of their power at the start of the fourth then another arcing hook from the left that thumped the top of his head to finish it 32sec from the end of a fierce, thrilling stanza.
(19) During the first developmental stanza when the digestive tract was differentiating and the larvae were dependent on endogenous nutritional reserves, digestive enzyme concentrations were low.
(20) This isn’t about creating a deeper democracy, but deeper markets – and the two are increasingly incompatible We could quote a thousand other such stanzas of euro-poetry, but that single line from Lafontaine shows how far the single-currency project has fallen.