rhythm

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

rhythms

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

rhythm

past (v2)

rhythmed

past participle (v3)

rhythmed

present participle

rhythming

3rd person singular

rhythms

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.The variation of strong and weak elements (such as duration, accent) of sounds, notably in speech or music, over time; a beat or meter.

   • 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."

2. 2.A specifically defined pattern of such variation.

3. 3.A flow, repetition or regularity.

   • Once you get the rhythm of it, the job will become easy.

4. 4.The tempo or speed of a beat, song or repetitive event.

   • We walked with a quick, even rhythm.
   • Bigeminous rhythm was followed by bursts of extrasystoles.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To impart a (particular) rhythm to.

   • The pamphlet, writes Muray, 'is the supremely affirmative form in which nothing can be turned around, rhythmed or played with in synonyms and rhymes'.
   • ISP places are, therefore, not only considered places of teaching and learning performances (see point 4): the different locations rhythmed the entire programme.
   • 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.

Overall

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By learning goal

Everyday conversation

Rare

General reading & writing

Uncommon

Academic

Rare

Literature

Rare

Synonyms

• beat