According to Guinness World Records, the largest collection of coffee pots belongs to Robert Dahl (Germany) and consists of 27,390 coffee pots as of 2 November 2012, in Rövershagen, Germany.
caesura
(noun) a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line
caesura
(noun) a pause or interruption (as in a conversation); “after an ominous caesura the preacher continued”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
caesura (plural caesuras or caesurae)
A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art.
(Classical prosody) Using two words to divide a metrical foot.
(typography) The caesura mark ‖ or ||.
(rarely) A break of an era or other measure of history and time; where one era ends and another begins.
In poetry bearing caesuras, it is marked by a double vertical line.
• (typography): virgule (in its obsolete form as a single slash)
Source: Wiktionary
Cæ*su"ra, n.; pl. E. Cæsuras (, L. Cæsuræ ( Etym: [L. caesura a cutting off, a division, stop, fr. caedere, caesum, to cut off. See Concise.]
Definition: A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle of a foot. Also, a long syllable on which the cæsural accent rests, or which is used as a foot.
Note: In the following line the cæsura is between study and of. The prop | er stud | y || of | mankind | is man.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
30 April 2024
(verb) treat carefully; “He nursed his injured back by lying in bed several hours every afternoon”; “He nursed the flowers in his garden and fertilized them regularly”
According to Guinness World Records, the largest collection of coffee pots belongs to Robert Dahl (Germany) and consists of 27,390 coffee pots as of 2 November 2012, in Rövershagen, Germany.