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P0606300 (prōz)n.1. Ordinary speech or writing, without metrical structure.2. Commonplace expression or quality.3. Roman Catholic Church A hymn of irregular meter sung before the Gospel.intr.v. prosed, pros·ing, pros·es 1. To write prose.2. To speak or write in a dull, tiresome style.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin prōsa (ōrātiō), straightforward (discourse), feminine of prōsus, alteration of prōrsus, from prōversus, past participle of prōvertere, to turn forward : prō-, forward; see pro-¹ + vertere, to turn; see wer- in Indo-European roots.]

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(prəʊz) n1. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) spoken or written language as in ordinary usage, distinguished from poetry by its lack of a marked metrical structure2. (Education) a passage set for translation into a foreign language3. commonplace or dull discourse, expression, etc4. (Roman Catholic Church) RC Church a hymn recited or sung after the gradual at Mass5. (modifier) written in prose6. (modifier) matter-of-factvb7. to write or say (something) in prose8. (intr) to speak or write in a tedious style[C14: via Old French from Latin phrase prōsa ōrātiō straightforward speech, from prorsus prosaic, from prōvertere to turn forwards, from pro-¹ + vertere to turn] ˈproseˌlike adj

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n., adj., v. prosed, pros•ing. n. 1. the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse. 2. matter-of-fact, commonplace, or dull expression, quality, discourse, etc. adj. 3. of, in, or pertaining to prose. 4. commonplace; prosaic. v.t. 5. to turn into or express in prose. v.i. 6. to write or talk in a dull, matter-of-fact manner. [1300–50; Middle English < Middle French < Latin prōsa (ōrātiō) literally, straightforward (speech), feminine of prōsus, for prōrsus, contraction of prōversus, past participle of prōvertere to turn forward =prō- pro-¹ + vertere to turn]

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Past participle: prosed
Gerund: prosing

Imperative
prose
prose

Present
I prose
you prose
he/she/it proses
we prose
you prose
they prose

Preterite
I prosed
you prosed
he/she/it prosed
we prosed
you prosed
they prosed

Present Continuous
I am prosing
you are prosing
he/she/it is prosing
we are prosing
you are prosing
they are prosing

Present Perfect
I have prosed
you have prosed
he/she/it has prosed
we have prosed
you have prosed
they have prosed

Past Continuous
I was prosing
you were prosing
he/she/it was prosing
we were prosing
you were prosing
they were prosing

Past Perfect
I had prosed
you had prosed
he/she/it had prosed
we had prosed
you had prosed
they had prosed

Future
I will prose
you will prose
he/she/it will prose
we will prose
you will prose
they will prose

Future Perfect
I will have prosed
you will have prosed
he/she/it will have prosed
we will have prosed
you will have prosed
they will have prosed

Future Continuous
I will be prosing
you will be prosing
he/she/it will be prosing
we will be prosing
you will be prosing
they will be prosing

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been prosing
you have been prosing
he/she/it has been prosing
we have been prosing
you have been prosing
they have been prosing

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been prosing
you will have been prosing
he/she/it will have been prosing
we will have been prosing
you will have been prosing
they will have been prosing

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been prosing
you had been prosing
he/she/it had been prosing
we had been prosing
you had been prosing
they had been prosing

Conditional
I would prose
you would prose
he/she/it would prose
we would prose
you would prose
they would prose

Past Conditional
I would have prosed
you would have prosed
he/she/it would have prosed
we would have prosed
you would have prosed
they would have prosed

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	prose - ordinary writing as distinguished from verseeuphuism - an elegant style of prose of the Elizabethan period; characterized by balance and antithesis and alliteration and extended similes with and allusions to nature and mythologynonfiction, nonfictional prose - prose writing that is not fictionalinterior monologue - a literary genre that presents a fictional character's sequence of thoughts in the form of a monologuestream of consciousness - a literary genre that reveals a character's thoughts and feeling as they develop by means of a long soliloquyprose poem - prose that resembles poetrypolyphonic prose - a rhythmical prose employing the poetic devices of alliteration and assonanceliterary genre, writing style, genre - a style of expressing yourself in writing
	2.	prose - matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expressionexpressive style, style - a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period; "all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper"

prose

nounQuotations
"Prose = words in their best order; poetry = the best words in their best order" [Samuel Taylor Coleridge Table Talk]
"Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it" [Jeremy Bentham]
"All that is not prose is verse; and all that is not verse is prose" [Molière Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme]

Translations

乏味的话或文章散文

prose

(prəuz) noun writing that is not in verse; ordinary written or spoken language. 散文，乏味的话或文章

prose

[Lat. prosa oratio=straightforward, or direct, speech], meaningful and grammatical written or spoken language that does not utilize the metrical structure, word transposition, or rhyme characteristic of poetry or verse; it is, however, raised above the level of lifeless composition or commonplace conversation by the use of balance, rhythm, repetition, and antithesis. In literature, prose is the usual mode of expression in such forms as the novel, short story, essay, letter (epistle), history, biography, sermon, and oration. The earliest European prose extant is that of HerodotusHerodotus
, 484?–425? B.C., Greek historian, called the Father of History, b. Halicarnassus, Asia Minor. Only scant knowledge of his life can be gleaned from his writings and from references to him by later writings, notably the Suda.
..... Click the link for more information. (5th cent. B.C.).

Prose

(1) Fictional, scientific, philosophic, journalistic, and other works lacking in the most general feature of poetry, namely, division into lines of verse.

(2) In the narrower and commonly used sense, a type of speech or written work distinguished from poetry by the specific rules that must be followed when creating a work of the imagination or when composing imaginative language. (SeePOETRY AND PROSE.)

prose

1. spoken or written language as in ordinary usage, distinguished from poetry by its lack of a marked metrical structure 2. a passage set for translation into a foreign language 3. RC Church a hymn recited or sung after the gradual at Mass

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(1)PROblem Solution Engineering. Numerical problems includingdifferentiation and integration. "Computing in Calculus",J. Thames, Research/Development 26(5) (May 1975).

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(2)A constraints-and-sequencing system similar toKaleidoscope. "Reflexive Constraints for Dynamic KnowledgeBases", P. Berlandier et al in Proc First Intl CS Conf '88:AI: Theory and Appls, Dec 1988.

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