cadence
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French cadence, from Old Italian cadenza (“conclusion of a phrase of music”), from Latin *cadentia (literally “a falling”), form of cadēns, the present participle of cadō (“to fall, to cease”). The Latin verb is inherited, via Proto-Italic *kadō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱad-e- (“to fall”, thematic present). Doublet of cadenza and chance.
Inflected forms:
form: cadences
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cadences
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cadencing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cadenced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cadenced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The act or state of declining or sinking.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Now was the sun in western cadence low.
gloss: The measure or beat of movement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Getting into a good jigging rhythm means making short quick jerks in a regular cadence that might average about one jerk every 1.5 to 2 seconds.
gloss: Balanced, rhythmic flow.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: You find not the apostrophas, and so miss the accent:
let me supervise the canzonet. Here are only numbers ratified;
but, for the elegancy, facility, and golden cadence of poesy,
caret.
Night has now passed in the Saudi desert and as we hear from Nightline correspondent Forrest Sawyer, the normal cadence of life at the front is about to change.
gloss: The general inflection or modulation of the voice, or of any sound.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Blustering winds, which all night long / Had roused the sea, now with hoarse cadence lull / Seafaring men o'erwatched.
The accents […] were in passion's tenderest cadence.
Then away at last they sped to the house or bedside of some elderly and worthy person, and Pym sat fascinated to see how swiftly Rick trimmed his manner to suit theirs, how naturally he slipped into the cadences and vernacular that put them most at ease, and how the love of God came into his good face when he talked about Liberalism and Masonry and his dear dead father, God rest him, and a firstclass rate of return, ten percent guaranteed plus profits for as long as you're spared.
The cadence of Raimey's voice is pure Down-Easter Maine
gloss: A progression of at least two chords which conclude a piece of music, section or musical phrases within it. Sometimes referred to analogously as musical punctuation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A fall in inflection of a speaker’s voice, such as at the end of a sentence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A dance move which ends a phrase.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The cadence in a galliard step refers to the final leap in a cinquepace sequence.
gloss: The rhythm and sequence of a series of actions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The number of steps per minute.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The number of revolutions per minute of the cranks or pedals of a bicycle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A chant that is sung by military personnel while running or marching; a jody call.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: call cadence
gloss: Cadency.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Harmony and proportion of movement, as in a well-managed horse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The number of strides per second of a racehorse, measured when the same foot/hoof strikes the ground
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The frequency of regular product releases.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In this third case, releasing more frequently, the PSI cadence becomes a planning cadence, rather than a release cadence.
We recommend aiming for a release cadence of no more than six months, with a goal of getting it down to three months or shorter.
This happens when the installation cadence in production is slower than the release cadence of the development teams.
gloss: To give a cadence to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: there was besides, in an already dominating and growing element, a motive that was stronger and more enduring than enthusiasm —an implacable antagonism which acted side by side with the cause of the Union as a perpetual impelling force against the social conditions of the South, controlling the counsels of the government, and cadencing the march of its armies to the chorus:
 John Brown's body lies mouldering in the grave,
 But his soul is marching on!
In this march to the City of the Dead," scores upon scores of the best musical organizations of the nation were in line, whose funeral dirges cadenced' the great wail of a bereft people.
Example 10a gives a melody for one endecasyllabic line of verse; there are various ways of utilizing it, including Rore's choice of cadencing the first line on the third scale degree, for a two-line segment of an ottava stanza.
gloss: To give structure to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It was the Exile, however, which cadenced the rhythm of Jewish existence
They are neither mentioned specifically in the Constitution, nor in the Federalist Papers that cadenced the nationalist debates.
... an idea taken up by Percier and Fontaine, who also supplied the Corinthian order and transverse arcades cadencing the gallery's length today
Related words: cadaver
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Derived words: cadence-lypso
cadence rampa
demicadence
intercadence
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: závěr
lang: Czech
word: kadence
lang: Esperanto
word: kadenco
lang: Finnish
word: kadenssi
lang: Finnish
word: lopuke
lang: French
word: cadence
lang: German
word: Rhythmus
lang: German
word: Kadenz
lang: Māori
word: tatūnga
lang: Māori
word: rauoro pārīrā
lang: Polish
word: kadencja
lang: Romanian
word: cadență
lang: Russian
word: каденция
roman: kadencija
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: dùnadh
lang: Spanish
word: cadencia
lang: Swedish
word: kadens
lang: Tagalog
word: ragsak
lang: Ukrainian
word: каде́нція
roman: kadéncija
lang: Welsh
word: diweddeb