What's the difference between leed and verse?

Leed


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Leede

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The University of the Arts London and Sunderland, Sheffield Hallam, Manchester Met and Leeds Met university have also experienced sharp declines in applications.
  • (2) I have to do my best.” The Leeds sporting director Nicola Salerno told the news conference that it was unlikely there would be new permanent signings in the January transfer window, but that there would be the possibility for loan deals.
  • (3) His words earned a stinging rebuke from first lady Michelle Obama , but at a Friday rally in North Carolina he said of one accuser, Jessica Leeds: “Yeah, I’m gonna go after you.
  • (4) A review of 90 patients presenting in Leeds over the period 1976-80 with synchronous hepatic metastases from colorectal cancer has been undertaken.
  • (5) Mulholland and others have tried to portray the Leeds case in terms of right or wrong.
  • (6) At one, in the Gun and Dog pub in Leeds on Tuesday, a witness described how the meeting descended into chaos when one of the rebels smashed a glass and threatened to attack Griffin supporter Mark Collett.
  • (7) The £77m, split between Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Newcastle, Bristol, Cambridge, Oxford and Norwich, will help improve existing cycle networks and pay for new ones, creating segregated routes in some areas.
  • (8) In practice it is calculated from measurements of the threshold contrast (noise) and limiting resolution using the Leeds test objects and the input air kerma rate.
  • (9) The hospital said it is seeking information from other porters who worked at Leeds general hospital when Savile was a volunteer.
  • (10) Yesterday student occupations were continuing in at least nine universities – including sit-ins in Leeds, Cambridge, Manchester, Edinburgh, University College London, Brighton, Newcastle and the School of African and Oriental Studies in London.
  • (11) Over the 10-year period 1973-82 1958 cases of tuberculosis were notified in Leeds (population 728 000).
  • (12) Photograph: Sophia Evans for the Observer REGISTERED, SUPPORTS REMAIN Hannah Capstick, 22 Studying for a graduate diploma in law, Leeds Among my friendship group, people didn’t vote in the local elections.
  • (13) But the Tories edited out a crucial final sentence in which Balls told BBC Radio Leeds on 9 January : “But I think we can be tougher and we should be and we will.” Labour seized on the Tory editing of the Balls interview to accuse the Tories of misleading people to defend their refusal to tackle tax avoidance.
  • (14) The growth of the host tissue occurred in and around a Leeds-Keio ligament in response to tensile stresses.
  • (15) Kelly and KR continued to toil in the Wembley heat to no avail and after the forward Brad Singleton charged over for Leeds’ next, their race was well and truly run.
  • (16) Prince began ambushing fans in February this year, playing his first big shows since 1995 as he took over arenas in Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow and Leeds as well as intimate venues in London and Manchester.
  • (17) We’ve sent out all the boards and there’s still loads of people flooding in, we don’t know what to do.’ It happened in Leeds North West, too – they started the day, they had so many activists that they went: ‘Right, let’s scrap our whole strategy, we’re going to just print off the electoral register instead’ – and rather than focusing on likely Labour voters, which is what you would normally do, they knocked on all the doors on the electoral register – that’s unheard of.” The seat saw a 14% swing to Labour, overturning a Lib Dem majority of almost 3,000 and replacing it with a 4,000 Labour lead.
  • (18) After Manchester United came the long goodbye to Stamford Bridge, a home game against Leeds on 15 May 2004, Abramovich's dismissal notice in Ranieri's pocket, but a lap and guard of honour with the players.
  • (19) These included “Project Bremner”, “Project Offside” and “Project Athena”, the latter set up to complete due diligence on Cellino before Leeds agreed to sell a controlling 75% stake in the club to the Italian.
  • (20) The road is the main route into Leeds from the south and links the city centre and railways stations to the M1, M621 and M62 motorways.

Verse


Definition:

  • (n.) A line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet (see Foot, n., 9) disposed according to metrical rules.
  • (n.) Metrical arrangement and language; that which is composed in metrical form; versification; poetry.
  • (n.) A short division of any composition.
  • (n.) A stanza; a stave; as, a hymn of four verses.
  • (n.) One of the short divisions of the chapters in the Old and New Testaments.
  • (n.) A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part.
  • (n.) A piece of poetry.
  • (v. t.) To tell in verse, or poetry.
  • (v. i.) To make verses; to versify.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But as a former Eurocrat, he is well-versed in the weaknesses and believes it is right to highlight them in stark language.
  • (2) The simplicity of the method, in particular, the solution by the graphic method for estimation of the apparent volume of distribution, might be specially useful for clinicians not well versed in mathematics in applying clinical pharmacokinetics to drug therapy.
  • (3) At the same time, he is keen to do everything in his power to help Palace pick up three crucial points, right down to giving Pulis chapter and verse on the Cardiff players he knows inside out.
  • (4) His controversial 1988 book The Satanic Verses, which provoked a religious opinion or fatwa, from the Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini calling for the author's killing as punishment for blasphemy, is still banned in India.
  • (5) No wonder the European Union has banned the use of the term on packaging unless it can be backed up with scientific chapter and verse.
  • (6) And unfortunately, the terrorists and the mainstream share a lot of these bad ideas.” The British Indian author Salman Rushdie, who was placed under a fatwa in 1989 following the publication of his book The Satanic Verses, said there had been “a deadly mutation in the middle of Islam”.
  • (7) So we’re eagerly awaiting Mike Bartlett’s darkly satirical verse drama.
  • (8) What the mixed responses pointed to was that, right from the start, The Satanic Verses affair was less a theological dispute than an opportunity to exert political leverage.
  • (9) "I myself am not very well-versed in the world of slash fiction," he says, marvelling at the time one would have had to spend to edit his perfectly innocent eight-hour recording into three minutes of steamy grot.
  • (10) Conservative evangelicals often quote a verse in Leviticus which describes sexual relations between men as an “abomination”.
  • (11) The track has been referenced a huge amount in the past few months on social media, whether through verse that apes the “Hey now, you’re an all star” structure of the chorus or by remixing the track itself in ridiculous ways.
  • (12) Used on West’s Blame Game, the sample is un-missable: a looped piano figure under West and John Legend’s verses.
  • (13) Other important Stevenson titles: Treasure Island (1883); The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886); A Child's Garden of Verses (1886); The Weir of Hermiston (1896, posthumous).
  • (14) He gives the team and the club a good presence, and you could see that from what he gave to us here.” Leeds are a club well versed in setting records, and they have now not won at Elland Road for 11 matches, stretching back to March.
  • (15) For those not versed in 800m times, that's remarkably quick considering his age and the conditions.
  • (16) "His 'official' laureateship verse was published in the Times and even included a poem on the assassination of John F Kennedy.
  • (17) This last point seemed to draw some sympathy from Justice Anthony Kennedy, who hails from California and is well versed in the central role of the initiative process in the state's political culture.
  • (18) The show will also see him discuss topics including "pogonophobia, underpants and the human condition", pognophobia being a fear of beards – something Paxman is well versed in following the public outcry at his beard-sporting last year.
  • (19) He was a keen visual artist, a storyteller, playwright, novelist, news reporter, radio DJ, a verse and prose writer and an enthusiastic walker.
  • (20) Two divergent viewpoints, central verses peripheral, provide insight into possible mechanisms.

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