rhythm
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ser-?
Proto-Indo-European *srew-
Proto-Indo-European *sru-dʰ-mo-s
Proto-Hellenic *hrutʰmós
Ancient Greek ῥῠθμός (rhŭthmós)bor.
Latin rhythmusder.
English rhythm
First coined in 1557, from Latin rhythmus, from Ancient Greek ῥυθμός (rhuthmós, “any measured flow or movement, symmetry, rhythm”), from ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow, run, stream, gush”).
Inflected forms:
form: rhythms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rhythms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rhythming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rhythmed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rhythmed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The variation of strong and weak elements (such as duration, accent) of sounds, notably in speech or music, over time; a beat or meter.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Dance to the rhythm of the music.
The audience clapped in rhythm as I sang.
Hicks is both thwarter and thwartee of Daedalean plots. Aboard a train, the rhythm of the wheels sounds to him like "wottachump, wottachump, wottachump."
gloss: A specifically defined pattern of such variation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Most dances have a rhythm as distinctive as the Iambic verse in poetry
gloss: A flow, repetition or regularity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Once you get the rhythm of it, the job will become easy.
Will this decision-making paralysis continue until Great British Railways has been established and settled into a new rhythm? If so, passengers on the West of England line are in for a rough ride, as the reliability of these tired old British Rail trains inevitably declines, and maintenance costs rise.
gloss: The tempo or speed of a beat, song or repetitive event.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We walked with a quick, even rhythm.
If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres,— of the decasyllabic quatrain, or the octosyllabic with alternate sexisyllabic, or other rhythms, […]
Bigeminous rhythm was followed by bursts of extrasystoles.
gloss: The musical instruments which provide rhythm (mainly; not or less melody) in a musical ensemble.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Baroque term basso continuo is virtually equivalent to rhythm
gloss: A regular quantitative change in a variable (notably natural) process.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The rhythm of the seasons dominates agriculture as well as wildlife
gloss: Controlled repetition of a phrase, incident or other element as a stylistic figure in literature and other narrative arts; the effect it creates.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The running gag is a popular rhythm in motion pictures and theater comedy
gloss: A person's natural feeling for rhythm.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: That girl's got rhythm, watch her dance!
I'm never gonna dance again / Guilty feet have got no rhythm
gloss: To impart a (particular) rhythm to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The pamphlet, writes Muray, 'is the supremely affirmative form in which nothing can be turned around, rhythmed or played with in synonyms and rhymes'.
And so the microchip, say, reflects a certain electronically driven speed of society, just as the invention of a flint axe, reflected a society that was rhythmed fully by biological and environmental temporalities.
ISP places are, therefore, not only considered places of teaching and learning performances (see point 4): the different locations rhythmed the entire programme.
rhythmed by a television show and a meal, as we grow older, things change. rhythmed by a baby's cry and school holidays, as we grow older, things change. rhythmed by monthly bills and a husband's envies, as we grow older, some things never change.
Synonyms: meter
metre
prosody
Related words: rhythmicity
rhythmics
rhythmist
rhythmize
Derived words: alpha rhythm
battle rhythm
biorhythm
circadian rhythm
counterrhythm
cross-rhythm
dysrhythmia
escape rhythm
homorhythm
isorhythm
Lombardic rhythm
Lombard rhythm
microrhythm
plagiarhythm
poly-rhythm
polyrhythm
rhythmal
rhythm and blues
rhythm and grime
rhythm band
rhythm box
rhythmed
rhythmer
rhythm game
rhythm guitar
rhythmic
rhythmical
rhythming
rhythmise
rhythmite
rhythmless
rhythm method
rhythmogenetic
rhythmology
rhythmometer
rhythm pole
rhythm royal
rhythm stick
sinus rhythm
tachyrhythmia
theta rhythm
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