(n.) A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; esp., now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style.
Example Sentences:
(1) And here they are, giving a certain Irish ode the treatment it deserves.
(2) Here, we introduce a new method to find an ODE which models both the short time and the long time dynamics.
(3) In extensive metabolizers, the drug undergoes extensive first-pass metabolism to form the active metabolites O-desmethylencainide (ODE) and 3-methoxy-O-desmethylencainide (MODE).
(4) Despite the increase in ODE AUC, no significant effect on the surface electrocardiogram 2 hours after dose administration could be detected.
(5) The classically described signs of early ODE were almost always absent.
(6) However, since plasma concentrations of the active metabolite ODE were correspondingly lower, specific encainide dosing instructions for patients with hepatic impairment are not indicated.
(7) In the ODE cells, abundant labyrinthine canals appeared in the cytoplasm, and capillary vessels were found close to the outer surface of the ODE cells.
(8) McFadden, a pop star himself, is in the news this week after his new single "Just The Way You Are (Drunk at the Bar)", released by Universal Music, was roundly read as a catchy ode to date rape.
(9) We haven't had so much as a team line-up on this broadcast to date, so I'm not holding out much hope of ODing on information about replacements.
(10) An ode to better days: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 12.30am BST Amy Poehler confirms that she and Tina Fey will discuss whether they want to host the Golden Globes tonight.
(11) Serial studies of fundus changes at frequent intervals, by routine ophthalmoscopy, steroscopic color photography, and fluorescein angiography, revealed that swelling of the optic disc was the first sign of ODE.
(12) Small differences are found among the variants in the pH range 7.5-8.2, where A and B show a "peak and trough," while A-, "Ijebu-Ode," and "Ita-Bale" exhibit a plateau.
(13) Plasma encainide, ODE and 3-methoxy-O-demethyl concentrations were similar to those observed in normal subjects who had received twice the dose of encainide, and steady-state apparent oral clearance of encainide was reduced by 66% with renal impairment.
(14) We have obtained complete A-type sequences coding for functional units Ode and Odf; consequently a total of three such unit sequences are now known from a single subunit of one molluscan hemocyanin.
(15) After the jet-black high school satire Heathers pulled the rug out from under John Hughes and his oversharing Brat Pack, in 1989, American adolescents were left with few offerings, most of them wistful odes to another age – either stylistically, as with the overblown, pirate-radio-themed Christian Slater vehicle Pump Up the Volume; or quite literally, in the case of Richard Linklater’s nostalgia-fuelled 70s pastiche, Dazed and Confused.
(16) Encainide (ENC) and its metabolites O-demethylencainide (ODE), 3-methoxy-O-demethylencainide (MODE), N-demethylencainide (NDE) and bis-N,O-demethylencainide (NODE) have been measured by two HPLC procedures.
(17) The second model is described by an ODE for which an explicit solution was obtained, and which yields the pancreatic responsivity parameters phi 1 and phi 2.
(18) The 8-h urinary metabolic profiles of encainide and its oxidized metabolites, O-desmethyl- (ODE), 3-methoxy-O-desmethyl- (MODE), N-desmethyl- (NDE) and N, O-didesmethyl- (DDE) encainide were studied in a group of 112 normal Caucasians.
(19) Encainide, ODE, or MODE was then infused in loading and maintenance doses to achieve QRS widening of 20% to 50%.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Banksy’s now Perspex-covered ode to fellow graffiti artist Tox on Jeffreys Street, London.
Poem
Definition:
(n.) A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and poetic diction; -- contradistinguished from prose; as, the poems of Homer or of Milton.
(n.) A composition, not in verse, of which the language is highly imaginative or impassioned; as, a prose poem; the poems of Ossian.
Example Sentences:
(1) When she died in 1994, Hopkins-Thomas and his mother – Jessie’s niece – were gifted the masses of drawings and poems Knight had collected over the years.
(2) When we arrived, he would instruct us to spend the morning composing a song or a poem, or inventing a joke or a charade.
(3) His parting tribute to the Things Fall Apart author, said Soyinka, would be the poem he wrote to Achebe when he turned 70.
(4) Crawford's own poetry was informed by contact with refugees – "I began to think seriously about what it felt like to lose your country or culture, and in my first book, there are one or two poems that are versions of Vietnamese poems" – and scientists, whose vocabulary he initially "stole because it seemed so metaphorically resonant.
(5) Whatever conclusion the crowd might have drawn, what's striking is that Tempest's poem couldn't be ignored: the conviction and drama of her performance forced a reaction and coloured the rest of the evening.
(6) One particular poem attacked by Liao, he said, is not praising a disgraced party official, but is actually satire.
(7) More than once, she replies to a question by wrinkling her nose and saying: “It’s all in the book.” Tempest can’t quite see why the breadth of her output – songs, poems, plays, a novel – is notable, because it’s all about writing and performance.
(8) There's no doubt that MacMaster expended an enormous amount of effort compiling the blog and creating Gay Girl's persona: poems, long imaginary reminiscences – even warning readers to treat some other websites "with a very large grain of salt" – but to what purpose?
(9) Raymond Hood – Terminal City (1929) 'Poem of towers' … Raymond Hood's 1929 drawings for the proposed Terminal City, in Chicago This never-built design for a massive new skyscraper quarter in Chicago is a vision of the modern city as a shadowed poem of towers; of glass and concrete dwarfing the people.
(10) His collection of poems Beware Soul Brother (1971) and the volume of short stories Girls at War and Other Stories (1972) drew on the experiences of the war.
(11) His charge sheet includes numerous assaults (one against a waiter who served him the wrong dish of artichokes); jail time for libelling a fellow painter, Giovanni Baglione, by posting poems around Rome accusing him of plagiarism and calling him Giovanni Coglione (“Johnny Bollocks”); affray (a police report records Caravaggio’s response when asked how he came by a wound: “I wounded myself with my own sword when I fell down these stairs.
(12) Other big-name winners at the Sony awards included Sir David Attenborough, named speech broadcaster of the year, and Bono, for BBC Radio 4's Elvis By Bono, in which the U2 frontman read a self-penned poem about Elvis Presley set to archive clips and music .
(13) When, as a sixth-former, I sent my first, almost-publishable poems to Ross, he returned them, but not with a printed rejection slip.
(14) He even recited Tennyson's poem to a classroom of Russian children in Moscow, possibly a tad insensitively, given that it was about an incident in the Crimean war, though they nodded politely.
(15) Eliot's poem – composed in the emotional carnage of the post-second world war period – was originally entitled (borrowing, shamelessly, from Dickens's Our Mutual Friend), He Do the Police in Different Voices.
(16) Louise Glück’s prose-poem collection, Faithful and Virtuous Night , won for poetry.
(17) Although the precise etiopathogenesis of the vascular proliferations remains speculative, these lesions merit study since they constitute an easily recognizable marker of POEMS syndrome.
(18) The poem touches a chord, because it doesn't deal with the often incoherent motivations of those who smashed up Tottenham and elsewhere, but the feelings of the rest of us: shocked, unsettled and confused.
(19) Hundreds of postcards, letters and parcels arrived, carrying not only words but also books, photographs, maps, stories and poems.
(20) She was shortlisted for a Forward prize at the age of 30 for her first collection, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, took the TS Eliot prize with her second , a remarkable book-length poem about the river Dart, and is now, 15 years later, widely hailed as one of British poetry's finest, brightest voices.