(n.) Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending on number, quantity, and accent of syllables; rhythm; measure; verse; also, any specific rhythmical arrangements; as, the Horatian meters; a dactylic meter.
(n.) A poem.
(n.) A measure of length, equal to 39.37 English inches, the standard of linear measure in the metric system of weights and measures. It was intended to be, and is very nearly, the ten millionth part of the distance from the equator to the north pole, as ascertained by actual measurement of an arc of a meridian. See Metric system, under Metric.
(n.) See Meter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Equal numbers of handled and unhandled puparia were planted out at different densities (1, 2, 4 or 8 per linear metre) in fifty-one natural puparial sites in four major vegetation types.
(2) The weapon is 13 metres long, weighs 60 tonnes and can carry nuclear warheads with up to eight times the destructive capacity of the bombs that hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the second world war.
(3) While winds gusting to 170mph caused significant damage, the devastation in areas such as Tacloban – where scenes are reminiscent of the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami – was principally the work of the 6-metre-high storm surge, which carried away even the concrete buildings in which many people sought shelter.
(4) He said the system had been successfully deployed at depths of 365 metres after hurricane Katrina, but not by a BP crew.
(5) We will together face the terrorist menace,” said Jean-Claude Juncker , president of the European commission, whose headquarters lie just a few hundred metres from the metro.
(6) By comparison in the Netherlands, where there is a better technical training provision, every secondary school is built with an additional 650 square metres of non-academic training space; an investment of more than £1.5m per school.” The Association of School and College Leaders criticised the absence of more funding for students studying for A-levels.
(7) Last month Kelli White, who won the 100 and 200 metres at the 2003 world championships in Paris, was banned for two years and stripped of her medals after admitting using THG.
(8) The Butcher’s Arms Herne Facebook Twitter Pinterest Martyn Hillier at the Butcher’s Arms Now a place of pilgrimage and inspiration, the Butcher’s Arms was established by Martyn Hillier in 2005 when he opened for business in the three-metre by four-metre front room of a former butcher’s shop.
(9) In Warwickshire, my parents are about 100 metres from the line and will soon exist on a major construction site, amid temporary living compounds for hundreds of workers and closed-off roads.
(10) Each member of the team has a narrow bed and only three cubic metres of personal space.
(11) I salute you.” So clear-fall logging and burning of the tallest flowering forests on the planet, with provision for the dynamiting of trees over 80 metres tall, is an ultimate good in Abbott’s book of ecological wisdom.
(12) Koehler confirmed German media reports that the truck had apparently been slowed by an automatic braking system, bringing it to a standstill after 70 to 80 metres (230-260ft) and preventing worse carnage.
(13) Both are alleged to have plied the Devon girl with drugs, raped her and left her unconscious to drown on Anjuna beach, metres from a bar in which the group had spent the evening drinking.
(14) The 777 has enjoyed one of the safest records of any jetliner built.” Besides last year’s Asiana crash, the only other serious incident with the 777 came in January 2008 when a British Airways jet landed 305 metres short of the runway at London’s Heathrow airport.
(15) It was found that at a torque of 0.7 Newton-metres, the caliper became detached at the maximum load, but still held during traction at torques above this value.
(16) The walking distance of the patients increased from an average of 288 to 401 metres.
(17) Sunday trading laws allow all stores to open for six hours between 10am and 6pm, while small shops with a floorspace of less than 280 sq metres (3,000 sq ft) can open all day.
(18) Although four class I synthetases of heterogeneous lengths and unknown structures are believed to be historically related to MetRS, pair-wise sequence similarities in the region of this RNA binding determinant are obscure.
(19) If coastal ice shelves buttressing the west Antarctic ice sheet continue to disintegrate, the sheet could disgorge into the ocean, raising sea levels by several metres in a century.
(20) It’s going to be harder in Zurich, because there’s going to be a lot more eight-metre jumpers,” he says, citing the reigning champion, Christian Reif, who has jumped 8.49m this season, as his main opposition Rutherford won gold in Glasgow with a modest leap of 8.20m but, as he points out, the chilly conditions were hardly conducive to leaping far.
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.