different between herse vs verse

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??(?)s/

Noun

herse (plural herses)

1. A kind of gate or portcullis, having iron bars, like a harrow, studded with iron spikes, hung above gateways so that it may be quickly lowered to impede the advance of an enemy.

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2. Obsolete form of hearse (a carriage for the dead)
3. (obsolete) A funeral ceremony.

Verb

herse (third-person singular simple present herses, present participle hersing, simple past and past participle hersed)

1. Alternative form of hearse
   • 1646, Richard Crashaw, Sospetto d'Herode

     The house is hers'd about with a black wood, Which nods with many a heavy-headed tree: Each flower's a pregnant poison, try'd and good; Each herb a plague.

   • 1598-1615, George Chapman (translator), Iliad

     The Grecians spritefully drew from the darts the corse, And hers'd it, bearing it to fleet.

   • 1596-99, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act 3, Scene 1

     I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear. O, would she were hers'd at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin.

Anagrams

• Esher, Rhees, Sheer, heers, here's, heres, sheer

French

Etymology

Latin hirpex.

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /??s/

Noun

herse f (plural herses)

1. harrow (device for breaking up soil)
2. portcullis (gate in the form of a grating)
3. spike strip, road spikes, traffic spikes
4. grate, grill (especially to block large objects floating down a river)
5. candlestick, candelabrum (with a triangular base and spikes to hold large candles)
6. stage lighting instrument, luminaire that disperses light over a stage
7. (heraldry) portcullis

Verb

herse

1. first-person singular present indicative of herser
2. third-person singular present indicative of herser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of herser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of herser
5. second-person singular present imperative of herser

Further reading

• “herse” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?v?s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?v??s/
• Rhymes: -??(?)s

Etymology 1

From Middle English vers, from a mixture of Old English fers and Old French vers; both from Latin versus (“a line in writing, and in poetry a verse; (originally) row, furrow”), from vert? (“to turn around”).

Noun

verse (countable and uncountable, plural verses)

1. A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.

   Synonym: poetry

2. Poetic form in general.

3. One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed.

   Synonym: stanza

4. A small section of the Jewish or Christian Bible.

   Holonym: chapter

5. (music) A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part.

Derived terms

• blank verse
• free verse

Related terms

• versification
• versify

Translations

Verb

verse (third-person singular simple present verses, present participle versing, simple past and past participle versed)

1. (obsolete) To compose verses.
   • c. 1579, Philip Sidney, The Defense of Poesy

     It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet.

2. (transitive) To tell in verse, or poetry.
3. (transitive, figuratively) to educate about, to teach about.

Etymology 2

Back-formation from versus, misconstrued as a third-person singular verb verses.

Verb

verse (third-person singular simple present verses, present participle versing, simple past and past participle versed)

1. (colloquial, sometimes proscribed) To oppose, to compete against, especially in a video game.

Further reading

• verse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• verse in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• verse at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• reves, serve, sever, veers

Afrikaans

Noun

verse

1. plural of vers

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

verse

1. Inflected form of vers

Anagrams

• vrees

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??s/

Adjective

verse (plural verses)

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Noun

verse f (plural verses)

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Derived terms

• pleuvoir à verse

Verb

verse

1. inflection of verser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• resve, rêves, rêvés, serve

Hungarian

Etymology

vers +? -e (possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?v?r??]
• Hyphenation: ver?se

Noun

verse

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of vers

Declension

Latin

Participle

verse

1. vocative masculine singular of versus

Middle English

Noun

verse

1. Alternative form of vers

Portuguese

Verb

verse

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of versar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of versar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of versar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of versar

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?verse]

Verb

verse

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of v?rsa
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of v?rsa

Spanish

Verb

verse (first-person singular present me veo, first-person singular preterite me vi, past participle visto)

1. to meet; to see one another

Conjugation

Related terms

• ver

Verb

verse

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of versar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of versar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of versar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of versar.