ode
IPA: ˈoʊd
noun
- A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; especially, now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style.
- A surname.
- (mathematical analysis) Initialism of ordinary differential equation. [(calculus) An equation involving the derivatives of a function of only one independent variable.]
- Initialism of Oxford Dictionary of English.
- (computing) Initialism of Orchestration Director Engine.
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Examples of "ode" in Sentences
- The song is an ode to the piano.
- The song is an ode to the pogo dance.
- Instead, the ode begins with the irmos.
- I want the wafty odes, the musky odours.
- It was there that he wrote the ode to her.
- The ode was viewed positively by the end of the century.
- Horace addressed to him the ninth ode of the second book.
- The poem is an ode to the countryside and peoples of rural Castile.
- He also celebrated in an indifferent ode the opening of the states general.
- The speaker in the ode is singing a displaced hymn, we are writing an interpretation.
- But neither the Medusa fragment nor the ode is merely a symbolic transcription of natural processes.
- Kittenpie is a classic beauty - the kinds that epic paintings were done in ode to in victorian times.
- It is the Earth as seen by Nils from the back of the gander and by the author of the Latin ode from the back of
- The ode is the trumpet of a prophecy which Shelley uttered on a grand scale in Prometheus Unbound: the death of tyranny and the rebirth of freedom.
- The ode is a perfect text for those purposes, and what's more, it ultimately allows me to make transparent to my students my motives in being so "mysterious."
- None the less it is safe to say that the concoction of a similar ode by the aid of the trade-mark words invented in the British Isles would be a task of great difficulty on account of the paucity of terms sufficiently artificial to bestow the exotic remoteness which is accountable for the aroma of the American ode.
- In "Crystal Palace" (2002, revised 2011), in what he calls an ode to "digital interlace," he disassembles a landscape of majestic snow-wreathed conifers at Lake Tahoe (and, briefly, a red house) into sharply differentiated parts and visual planes, isolating these elements in a way that brings to mind the individual layers of a paper diorama.
- I then translated the ode from the Greek, and as nearly as possible, word for word; and the impression was, that in the general movement of the periods, in the form of the connections and transitions, and in the sober majesty of lofty sense, it appeared to them to approach more nearly, than any other poetry they had heard, to the style of our