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cadence noun & verb. LME.
[Old French from Italian cadenza from popular Latin, from Latin cadent- pres. ppl stem of cadere fall: see -ENCE.]
A. noun.
(A) rhythm; (a) metrical or musical beat; (a) measured movement, esp. of sounds. LME.
Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost The elegancy, facility, and golden cadence of poesy. F. Norris Listening to the one-two-three, one-two-three cadence of the musicians. Scientific American A bicyclist confronting a head wind..tries to maintain his customary..pedaling cadence by shifting gears.
a. (A pattern of) falling intonation or pitch of voice, esp. at the end of a sentence etc. L16.
L. Sterne A low voice, with a..sweet cadence at the end of it.
b. gen. Intonation; an intonation pattern; (a) modulation of the voice; (a) national or local accent. E18.
G. Murray The accent, the cadences, the expression, with which the words were originally spoken. J. Berger The cadence of their voices is like that of a couple talking in bed.
The close of a musical phrase; a sequence of notes resolving discord or establishing arrival in a key. Also, a flourish at the close of a movement, a cadenza. L16.
imperfect cadence: see IMPERFECT adjective. medial cadence: see MEDIAL adjective. perfect cadence: see PERFECT adjective. PLAGAL cadence.
Sinking or falling down. E-M17.
Milton Now was the Sun in Western cadence low.
The sound of the rising and (esp.) falling of a storm, the sea, etc. arch. M17.
Comb.: cadence braking repeated rhythmic application of the brakes of a motor vehicle.
b. verb.
verb trans. Compose metrically. rare. M18.
verb intrans. Flow in rhythm; resolve discord or establish a key with a cadence. E20.
cadenced adjective characterized by cadence, rhythmical, measured L18.