(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.
Verso
Definition:
(n.) The reverse, or left-hand, page of a book or a folded sheet of paper; -- opposed to recto.
Example Sentences:
(1) For electron microscopy, the immunogold procedure was applied to sections of lowicryl-embedded samples; simultaneous detection of GABA- and TH-immunoreactivities was enabled by recto-verso double labelling with gold particles of distinct diameters.
(2) It is published by Verso priced £25, and is available from the Guardian bookshop for £20.50 including free UK p&p .
(3) Verso , for example, sells ebooks directly, many at a great discount, and also offers a free ebook download when customers buy a printed copy.
(4) This is an edited extract from The Revenge of History: the Battle for the 21st Century by Seumas Milne, published by Verso.
(5) Robin Verso, the Warwickshire probation trust chairman, has told the Tory minister that the risks involved in the current timetable for outsourcing 70% of the probation service's workload are unacceptable: "Our assessment is that performance is bound to be damaged and that public protection failures will inevitably increase."
(6) Living in the End Times is published on 5 July by Verso, £20.
(7) The Dilemmas of Lenin by Tariq Ali is published by Verso, priced £16.99.
(8) Hill was honoured by an OUP festschrift, Puritans And Revolutionaries, when he retired from Balliol in 1978, and Verso published a series of tributes and criticisms, Reviving The English Revolution, 10 years later.
(9) I suppose we have nothing more to lose.” Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj by Nadya Tolokonnikova and Slavoj Žižek is published on September 30 (Verso Books).
(10) · Franco Moretti's Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary Theory is published by Verso (£20)
(11) Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation by Eyal Weizman is published by Verso.
(12) • Tariq Ali ’s The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Rebellion is published next month by Verso.
(13) Paul Mason's book Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere is published by Verso in January
(14) But a recent Verso survey estimated that barely 12% of books are discovered from social networks whereas 50% are passed on via personal recommendations.
(15) Application of a double, recto-verso, immunogold labelling method in electron microscopy revealed systematic colocalization of GABA and tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) immunoreactivities in the axons innervating the intermediate lobe; in the neural lobe, almost all GABA-immunoreactive axons were also labelled for TH.
(16) This dream was the backdrop to my novel Fear of Mirrors , which I began writing soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall ( and has been recently republished by Verso ).
(17) • The new and updated edition of James Meek’s Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs To Someone Else, shortlisted for the Orwell prize, is out now from Verso at £8.99 rrp.
(18) Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture , by Justin McGuirk, is published by Verso • The tragedy of Tampico: a city of violence, abandoned to the trees
(19) His latest book is Inequality and the 1%, published by Verso
(20) Her book Dispatches from the Dark Side is published by Verso at £9.99.