Refrain has two main meanings. Firstly, to abstain from saying something. Secondly, in music, a regularly recurring melody
Wanton basically means recklessly. So therefore, your statement means: To refrain (try not to) recklessly offend/hurt someone.
Assonance is refrain of vowel to create rhyming within a phraseor sentence.
Refrain and persists are close to being opposites, so they are antonyms.
Please refrain from using your cell phone during the meeting.
A refrain phrase is a phrase that repeats itself in a poem. Here is an example: There was a tree With a bumblebee It awfully stung me WHY DEOS IT HAVE TO BE ME There was a truck About to hit a tree Instead it hit me then a duck WHY DEOS IT HAVE TO BE ME In these cases, why DEOS it have to be me is the refrain. Sorry about the awful poetry, made them up right on the spot, but it still shows the refrain. Hope this helped!!
The word abstinence means to refrain from participating in a particular behavior.
Wanton basically means recklessly. So therefore, your statement means: To refrain (try not to) recklessly offend/hurt someone.
To refrain from something is to stop from doing something. For instance, I might refrain from commenting on my friend's lack of fashion sense.
Assonance is refrain of vowel to create rhyming within a phraseor sentence.
It means- don't spit in your hat
There is no refrain
In music, a refrain is an interlude that is neither the chorus nor a verse, like a bridge. 'Arbitrary' means that it does not relate to anything previous. I assume you're referring to the Bud advert here, where the band slow the chorus down and use only percussion instruments after the beardy guy tells them to 'throw in an arbtrary refrain' ? Whilst not being entirely arbitrary, it is indeed a refrain.
This is defined as a refrain. These can also be found quite often in songs.
Please refrain from smoking in the lavatories.
refrain from intaking anything that will increase your blood pressure, refrain from any intensive exercises, always breathe slowly and confortably, and stick to a more lax lifestyle.... Or if you mean biological control: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiac_pacemaker
No, "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost does not have a refrain. The poem is structured into nine lines in total, with a consistent rhyme scheme but no repeated refrain.
A refrain poem in Afrikaans is called a "refrein gedig".