Stave

Entertainment / Literature / Stave: Another term for stanza. See stanza.
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System

Lifestyle / Adoption / System: Often referred to as 'the public child welfare system.' Refers to the network of governmental organizations providing a range of child welfare services. MORE

Coriolis Force

Technology / Aviation / Coriolis Force: The force that is produced when a particle moves a long a path in a plane while the plane itself is rotating. MORE

Awdl

Entertainment / Literature / Awdl: (from Middle Welsh odl) The term in Welsh poetry has come to acquire several meanings. In its earliest usage, an awdl meant a stave bearing the rhyme in any poem. Next, it came to mean a series of mon MORE

Stanza

Entertainment / Literature / Stanza: An arrangement of lines of verse in a pattern usually repeated throughout the poem. Typically, each stanza has a fixed number of verses or lines, a prevailing meter, and a consistent rhyme scheme. A s MORE

Phallic

Entertainment / Literature / Phallic: A phallic symbol or phallus is a sexualized representation of male potency, power, or domination--particularly through some object vaguely reminiscent of the penis. Common phallic symbols include stic MORE

Quatrain

Entertainment / Literature / Quatrain: Also sometimes used interchangeably with 'stave,' a quatrain is a stanza of four lines, often rhyming in an ABAB pattern. Three quatrains form the main body of a Shakespearean or English sonnet along MORE