rhyming [rahym]
Main Entry:
measure [mezh-er]
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: calculate, judge
Synonyms: adapt, adjust, align, appraise, assess, average, beat, blend, bound, calibrate, caliper, check, check out, choose, compute, delimit, demarcate, determine, dope out, estimate, evaluate, even, eye*, figure, fit, gauge, gradate, grade, graduate, level, limit, line, look over, mark, mark out, mete, pace off, peg, plumb, portion, quantify, rank, rate, read, reckon, regulate, rhyme, rule, scale, shade, size, size up, sound, square, stroke, survey, tailor, take account, time, value, weigh
Antonyms: estimate, guess
Main Entry: measuring
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: weighing
Synonyms: aligning, averaging, calculating, calibrating, checking, gauging, grading, leveling, mapping, rhyming, scaling, surveying
Related Words
Main Entry: measure
Part of Speech: noun, verb
Related
Adjectives:
comparative, geodetical, gradual, inch, measuring, metric, metrical, poisable, scalar, shading off, sidereal, unmeasured
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Main Entry: poetry
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
Pierian, acatalectic, acromonogrammatic, alcaic, anapestic, catalectic, dithyrambic, elegiac, epic, iambic, idyllic, ionic, lyric, lyrical, melic, metrical, pindaric, poetic, poetical, sapphic, sdrucciola, tragicomipastoral, trochaic, tuneful
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Poetry.
Category: 2. Conventional means; written language
Synonyms:
-nouns
poetry, poetics, poesy, Muse, Calliope, tuneful Nine, Parnassus, Helicon, Pierides, Pierian spring., versification, rhyming, making verses; prosody, orthometry., poem; epic, epic poem; epopee, epopoca, ode, epode, idyl, lyric, eclogue, pastoral, bucolic, dithyramb, anacreontic, sonnet, roundelay, rondeau, rondo, madrigal, canzonet, cento, monody, elegy; amoebeaum, ghazal, palinode., dramatic poetry, lyric poetry; opera; posy, anthology; disjecta membra poetae, song, ballad, lay; love song, drinking song, war song, sea song; lullaby; music; nursery rhymes., [Bad poetry] doggerel, Hudibrastic verse, prose run mad; macaronics; macaronic verse, leonine verse; runes., canto, stanza, distich, verse, line, couplet, triplet, quatrain; strophe, antistrophe., verse, rhyme, assonance, crambo, meter, measure, foot, numbers, strain, rhythm; accentuation (voice); dactyl, spondee, trochee, anapest; hexameter, pentameter; Alexandrine; anacrusis, antispast, blank verse, ictus., elegiacs; elegiac verse, elegaic meter, elegaic poetry., poet, poet laureate; laureate; bard, lyrist, scald, skald, troubadour, trouvere; minstrel; minnesinger, meistersinger; improvisatore; versifier, sonneteer; rhymer, rhymist, rhymester; ballad monger, runer; poetaster; genus irritabile vatum.
-verbs
poetize, sing, versity, make verses, rhyme, scan.
-adjectives
poetic, poetical; lyric, lyrical, tuneful, epic, dithyrambic; metrical; acatalectic, catalectic; elegiac, iambic, trochaic, anapestic; amoebeeic, Melibean, skaldic; Ionic, Sapphic, Alcaic, Pindaric.
-phrases
"a poem round and perfect as a star" [Alex. Smith); Dichtung und Wahrheit; furor poeticus; "his virtues formed the magic of his song" [Hayley]; "I do but sing because I must" [Tennyson]; "I learnt life from the poets" [de Stael]; licentia vatum; mutum est pictura poema; "O for a muse of fire!" [Henry V]; "sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge" [Sidney]; "the true poem is the poet's mind" [Emerson]; Volk der Dichter und Denker;
Antonyms: prose
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