stanza en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈstænzə/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From Italian stanza, from Vulgar Latin *stantia (“standing, stopping-place”), from Latin stāns, stantis, from stō, stāre, from Proto-Italic *staēō, from Proto-Indo-European *sth₂éh₁yeti, stative verb from *steh₂- (whence English stand). Doublet of stance.
Meanings
- A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse.
- An apartment or division in a building.
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An XML element which acts as basic unit of meaning in XMPP.
Technically speaking, federation is the ability for two XMPP servers in different domains to exchange XML stanzas.
2009, John Rittinghouse, James F. Ransome, Cloud Computing: Implementation, Management, and Security:Definition of XML Stanza: An XML stanza is the basic unit of meaning in XMPP.
2011, P. Saint-Andre, RFC 6120 - Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core:Whenever an XMPP client generates an XML stanza, it typically constructs the XML of the stanza by building up a structured document […]
2009, Tim Riley, Adam Goucher, Beautiful Testing: Leading Professionals Reveal How They Improve Software:
- A section of a configuration file consisting of a related group of lines.
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A segment; a portion of a broadcast devoted to a particular topic.
Actually NBC and other webs have used similar devices in the past, particularly during the war, when net used plattered segments for its news and documentary stanzas. As far as can be determined, however, this is the first post-war instance in which the net has allowed even a partial plattering of a regularly skedded commercial stanza.
1957 December 30, “NBC Breaks Wax Rule for Hope's Britain Shows”, in Billboard, volume 59, number 45, page 5:
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A period; an interval into which a sporting event is divided.
The game's prime moment wasn't the decisive and popular eighth-inning, two-run homer by Mark Bellhorn, which ticked off the friendly Fenway right-field foul pole, but a sensational play by Boston's Manny Ramirez in the top of that same stanza.
2004 November 22, Roger Angell, “Long Voyage Home”, in The New Yorker, volume 80, number 36, page 50:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| stanzas | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
stanzaic · Spenserian stanza · Monk's Tale stanza · interstanza · Burns stanza · stanzaed · stanzalike
Relateds
Translations (52)
fr strophe (a unit of a poem) · he בית (a unit of a poem) · vi khổ (a unit of a poem) · sv strof (a unit of a poem) · enm vers (a unit of a poem) · ga véarsa (a unit of a poem) · nn strofe (a unit of a poem) · da strofe (a unit of a poem) · kk шумақ (a unit of a poem) · ar مَقْطَع (a unit of a poem) · ms rangkap (a unit of a poem) · hu versszak (a unit of a poem) · hy տուն (a unit of a poem) · tl taludturan (a unit of a poem) · ar أَبْيات (a unit of a poem) · hu strófa (a unit of a poem) · cmn 詩節 /诗节 (a unit of a poem) · ru станс (a unit of a poem) · et stroof (a unit of a poem) · bg строфа (a unit of a poem) · ha baitī̀ (a unit of a poem) · de Strophe (a unit of a poem) · sh stih (a unit of a poem) · pl zwrotka (a unit of a poem) · ro stanță (a unit of a poem) · mi whiti (a unit of a poem) · el στροφή (a unit of a poem) · ms bait (a unit of a poem) · cs sloka (a unit of a poem) · cy pennill (a unit of a poem) · ca estrofa (a unit of a poem) · es estrofa (a unit of a poem) · ta பா (a unit of a poem) · eo strofo (a unit of a poem) · no strofe (a unit of a poem) · ar بَيْت (a unit of a poem) · nl stanza (a unit of a poem) · fr stance (a unit of a poem) · fi säkeistö (a unit of a poem) · pt estrofe (a unit of a poem) · nl strofe (a unit of a poem) · it strofa (a unit of a poem) · ro strofă (a unit of a poem) · sk sloha (a unit of a poem) · tl saknong (a unit of a poem) · sa गाथा (a unit of a poem) · chk wokisin (a unit of a poem) · pl strofa (a unit of a poem) · tr kıta (a unit of a poem) · ru строфа́ (a unit of a poem) · es estanza (a unit of a poem) · id bait (a unit of a poem)