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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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PROSE

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

PROSE

(2)
A constraints-and-sequencing system similar to Kaleidoscope. "Reflexive Constraints for Dynamic Knowledge Bases", P. Berlandier et al in Proc First Intl CS Conf '88: AI: Theory and Appls, Dec 1988.
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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

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.)

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Mais il est un chat, dans les Fleurs, dont le corps n'appartient pas ou n'appartient plus a l'ordre des sphinx, c'est celui du premier Spleen (75), qui s'inscrit a l'avance dans le tableau parisien, dans le paysage des poemes en prose, de la prose urbaine spleenetique: froid, brume, cimetiere, faubourg.
(c) Tout a fait celui qui sera evoque a la fin de la prose consacree au Vieux Saltimbanque, le "vieux poete", "sans ami, sans famille", degrade par sa misere, etc.
C'est bien dans cet esprit que l'annee suivant la reprise de la question "Oo vont les chiens?", ou les poetes, chiens de ravines et chats de gouttieres, en 1999 j'ai donne pour titre a ce que je crois etre une tentative de "prose en prose" apres la poesie, le second hemistiche de ce vers de Victor Hugo, dans "Reponse a un acte d'accusation" (le celebre poeme metapoetique des Contemplations): "J'ai jete le vers noble aux chiens noirs de la prose".
Positing a direct lineage between the classical epic in prose and the modern prose poem, the editors of this collection envision a history of the genre for the period spanning 1750 to 1850.
Part One, "Poesie et prose" which heeds the poetic investment of prose in the eighteenth century, begins with Jacques-Philippe Saint-Gerand's lexicological analysis of the syntagma poeme en prose.
Part Three, "Poeme en prose," describes the emergence of the modern prose poem as a brief and self-contained form in the early nineteenth century.
In "Notes for a New Prose" Creeley said that such writing would be all middle: "It has neither beginning nor end." Again, not a thing cut off, not an island.
Consider the opening of "The Unsuccessful Husband," the first writing in The Collected Prose, the first fiction in The Gold Diggers: "Such a day of peace it was, so calm and quiet" (13).
Le "supreme Savant" de la lettre du voyant est deja un "alchimiste du verbe," dans son creuset se trouvent les antinomies que le poete se donnera pour mission de reunir: sur l'axe biographique, la fiction et la realite; sur l'axe de la poetique, la poesie et la prose.
D'entree de jeu, dans Un Coeur sous une soutane, la poesie passe a la meule de la prose et du prosaique.
After a brief chapter on 'The Russian Prose Poem as a Realist Genre', mainly exemplified by Bunin, Wanner turns back a little to Symbolist prose miniatures, a category in which Bal'mont, Briusov, Belyi, and Annenskii all have something to offer, along with Rozanov and the little-known Evgenii Lundberg.
In an epilogue Wanner goes on to look briefly at more recent Russian practitioners of the prose poem.

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