Rhythm
['rɪð(ə)m] or ['rɪðəm]
Definition
(noun.) recurring at regular intervals.
(noun.) the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements; 'the rhythm of Frost's poetry'.
(noun.) the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music; 'the piece has a fast rhythm'; 'the conductor set the beat'.
Editor: Vlad--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) In the widest sense, a dividing into short portions by a regular succession of motions, impulses, sounds, accents, etc., producing an agreeable effect, as in music poetry, the dance, or the like.
(n.) Movement in musical time, with periodical recurrence of accent; the measured beat or pulse which marks the character and expression of the music; symmetry of movement and accent.
(n.) A division of lines into short portions by a regular succession of arses and theses, or percussions and remissions of voice on words or syllables.
(n.) The harmonious flow of vocal sounds.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Periodical emphasis, regular or melodious movement, harmonious flow.
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Definition
n. flowing motion: metre: regular recurrence of accents: harmony of proportion: a measure or foot: (mus.) the regular succession of heavy and light accents: (phys.) the succession of alternate and opposite states.—adjs. Rhyth′mic -al having or pertaining to rhythm or metre.—adv. Rhyth′mically.—n. Rhyth′mics the science of rhythm.—v.t. and v.i. Rhyth′mise to subject to rhythm: to observe rhythm.—n. Rhyth′mist one who composes in rhythm.—adj. Rhythm′less destitute of rhythm.—ns. Rhythmom′eter an instrument for marking rhythms for music a metronome; Rhythmopœ′ia the art of composing rhythmically.
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Examples
- He moved about a great deal, his life seemed uncertain, without any definite rhythm, any organic meaning. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But to suppose that the remedy lies in waiting for monographs from the research of the laboratory is to have lost a sense of the rhythm of actual affairs. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And the melody and rhythm will depend upon the words? Plato. The Republic.
- For the object of democracy is not to imitate the rhythm of the stars but to harness political power to the nation's need. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But there is no difficulty in seeing that grace or the absence of grace is an effect of good or bad rhythm. Plato. The Republic.
- As the noise and rapidity of the drumbeats increased the dancers apparently became intoxicated with the wild rhythm and the savage yells. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- I only know that there are some three principles of rhythm out of which metrical systems are framed, just as in sounds there are four notes (i. Plato. The Republic.
- Unless I set my will, unless I absolve myself from the rhythm of life, fix myself and remain static, cut off from living, absolved within my own will. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- That is the rhythm of all early history. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Their regular breathing rose and fell in a soothing rhythm that seemed to me the sweetest music I ever had heard. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- At any rate you can tell that a song or ode has three parts--the words, the melody, and the rhythm; that degree of knowledge I may presuppose? Plato. The Republic.
- All such feeding and living may be rightly compared by us to melody and song composed in the panharmonic style, and in all the rhythMs. Exactly. Plato. The Republic.
- To say what these rhythms are will be your duty--you must teach me them, as you have already taught me the harmonies. Plato. The Republic.
Typist: Rebecca