rhythmn.

Brit.

/ˈrɪð(ə)m/, U.S.

/ˈrɪðəm/

Forms: 1500s–1600s rhithme, 1500s–1600s rithme, 1500s–1700s rhythme, 1500s–1800s rythm, 1500s–1800s rythme, 1600s–1700s rhithm, 1600s–1700s rithm, 1600s– rhythm.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Probably also partly a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: Latin rhythmus ; rhyme n.

Etymology: < classical Latin rhythmus (see rhythmus n.). In branch II., probably originally a spelling variant of rhyme n., arising from the assumption that that word was etymologically linked with classical Latin rhythmus (see note below on pronunciation history, and see also discussion at rhyme n.). In some senses perhaps after Middle French rithme (14th cent.), rhythme (c1512), Middle French, French rythme (early 16th cent.) (with reference to antiquity and in translations) harmony, measured flow (c1370 as ryme ), musical rhythm (a1374; subsequently from c1512), poetic rhythm (1521), flow of words in a phrase or poem (1647), harmonious composition in sculpture (1765), rhythm of the human pulse (1765). The French word was originally a homophone of rime rhyme n.; from c1550 it was distinguished in gender, as masculine; the th only came to be pronounced (as /t/) from the 17th cent. Compare also Spanish ritmo (16th cent.), Italian ritmo (a1375). Compare earlier rhythmica n., rhythmus n.The modern pronunciation with a medial fricative reflects a pronunciation of rhythmus in post-classical Latin (and also in medieval and modern Greek; in classical Latin and in ancient and Hellenistic Greek the sound was an aspirated plosive). The English word was clearly sometimes pronounced as a disyllable with a fricative (whether voiced or unvoiced) in the 17th cent., as shown by the evidence of the orthoepists (see E. J. Dobson Eng. Pronunc. 1500–1700 (ed. 2, 1968) II §§324, 364). However, it is also likely that some of the early examples of the forms recorded at this entry are simply Latinate spelling forms of the word rhyme n., pronounced as a monosyllable without a fricative and with a long vowel: compare e.g. the rhymes with time in quots. 1600 at sense 6, 1647 at sense 6, 1647 at sense 7, 1647 at sense 8b, and 1677 at sense 6, and with crime in quot. 1677 at sense 7. Compare also the spelling ri'me in B. Jonson Volpone (1607) Prol. (see quot. 1607 at rhyme n. Phrases 2), in which the apostrophe apparently represents what is perceived as ‘omitted’ th . Such evidence is found only for the senses at branch II., and there is apparently no unambiguous early evidence for a disyllabic pronunciation in these senses. However, it is perhaps unlikely that there was an entirely consistent split between disyllabic pronunciations for the senses at branch I. and pronunciations identical to that of rhyme n. for the senses at branch II. 18th-cent. pronouncing dictionaries indicate a voiceless fricative in this word, while the evidence of 19th-cent. dictionaries is more varied. N.E.D. (1908) records pronunciations with both voiced and voiceless fricatives. Few dictionaries record the pronunciation with a voiceless fricative after the mid 20th cent.

I. Senses relating to a regular repeated pattern of sound or movement.

a. Prosody. The measured flow of words or phrases in verse, forming various patterns of sound as determined by the relation of long and short or stressed and unstressed syllables in a metrical foot or line; an instance of this.descending, running, sprung rhythm, etc.: see the first element.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > [noun]

cadencec1384

coloura1522

rhythmus1531

running1533

number1553

rhythm1560

cadency1628

chimea1649

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1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cci For nothinge is more pleasaunte than hys [sc. Clément Marot's] style, nothynge purer than his speache, nothyng apter or more pleasaunt than hys Rythme.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. v. 64 As we in abusing this terme (ryme) be neuerthelesse excusable applying it to another point in Poesie no lesse curious then their rithme or numerositie which in deede passed the whole verse throughout.

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1259 When the melody and rhythme or measure was artificially set to.

1657 A. Sparrow Rationale Bk. Common Prayer (new ed.) 361 They used all decent and grave variety of rythmes and Meeters in their Hymns & Psalms.

1737 E. Manwaring Stichol. viii. 27 All Metre is therefore Rhythm, but not all Rhythm Metre.

c1786 T. Jefferson Thoughts on Eng. Prosody in Writings (1903) XVIII. 447 There are but two regular pauses in this whole passage of seven verses. They are constantly drowned by the majesty of the rhythm and sense.

1838 E. Guest Hist. Eng. Rhythms I. 174 The forms in which accentual rhythm made its first appearance amongst us.

1838 E. Guest Hist. Eng. Rhythms I. 174 No temporal rhythms are to be found in our literature.

1845 L. Schmitz tr. K. G. Zumpt Gram. Lat. Lang. 552 The first species, in which the Arsis forms the beginning, is called the descending Rhythm; the other, in which the Thesis forms the beginning, the ascending.

1871 Pub. Sch. Lat. Gram. §227. 467 A most exceptional but felicitous rhythm: ‘Et membratim vitalem deperdere sensus’.

1891 S. R. Driver Introd. Lit. Old Test. vii. 339 In ancient Hebrew poetry, though there was always rhythm, there was..no metre in the strict sense of the term.

1913 A. C. Clark Prose Rhythm in Eng. 18 Rhythm in poetry depends upon the recurrence of longs and shorts, or stressed and unstressed syllables, in a regular order.

1952 R. Ellmann in New Mexico Q. 22 389 He breaks up the mainly anapestic rhythm, particularly in the conversational third line.

1996 Independent 13 Feb. 5/1 He is an experimental poet and writer, breaking rhythm and syntax with an improvisatory freedom more redolent of music than verse.

†b. Rhythmical or metrical form. Obsolete.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [noun]

rhymec1175

metrec1390

measurec1450

rhythm1656

mete1768

metric1883

1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. viii. 35 Poem..is a speech in meeter or rhithme.

1657 A. Sparrow Churching of Women in Rationale Bk. Common Prayer (1684) 314 One began and sang in rhythm, the rest..hearing with silence.

1763 J. Brown Diss. Poetry & Music §5. 50 The oldest Compositions among the Arabs are in Rythm or rude Verse.

1800 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 327 The adaptedness of one rhythm or form of stanza for one purpose, and of another for a different purpose, is wholly, or nearly so, the result of association.

1850 Ld. Tennyson Princess (ed. 3) iv. 77 Ourself have often tried Valkyrian hymns, or into rhythm have dash'd The passion of the prophetess.

1868 Ld. Tennyson Lucretius 220 For save when shutting reasons up in rhythm, Or Heliconian honey in living words, To make a truth less harsh, I often grew Tired of so much within our little life.

†c. A metrical foot. Obsolete.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [noun] > foot

footOE

rhythm1737

1737 E. Manwaring Stichol. ii. 10 A simple Rhythm or Foot, says Dionysius, has not less than two Syllables, nor more than three.

1749 J. Mason Ess. Power of Numbers & Princ. Harmony 13 These are indifferently called Rhythms, Numbers or Feet.

d. The measured flow of words or phrases in prose, speech, etc.; an instance of this.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > abundance of vocabulary > flow of words

perfluence1568

profluence1568

profluencya1683

rhythm1832

1832 Encycl. Americana XI. 591 Rhetorical rhythm is satisfied with a pleasing cadence of syllables.

1849 A. M. Bell New Elucidation Princ. Speech & Elocution iv. 230 In every sentence, however uttered,..there is a rhythm.

a1854 H. Reed Lect. Eng. Lit. (1878) iii. 107 This fashion of short sentences is fatal to the fine rhythm, which English prose is capable of.

1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede II. ii. xviii. 46 The church service..its recurrent responses and the familiar rhythm of its collects.

1907 J. Conrad Secret Agent xiii. 441 The mystery of a human brain pulsating wrongfully to the rhythm of journalistic phrases.

1972 E. T. Sithole in T. Kochman Rappin' & Stylin' Out 70 The black man..appreciates the rhythm of his speech and retains it in his songs.

1989 Amer. Poetry Rev. Nov. 13/2 The Morning of the Poem..also has a contrapuntal quality, it employs long spiraling lyric lines..but the reader never feels thrown into the rhythms of prose.

1992 Spoken Eng. 25 46 The importance of assimilation and of elision, the rhythm of English speech, word stress, tone and pitch..are dealt with.

a. Music. The systematic grouping of musical sounds, principally according to duration and periodical stress; beat; an instance of this, a particular grouping or arrangement of musical sounds.cross-, quadruple, shuffle, triple rhythm, etc.: see the first element.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun]

proportiona1387

measurea1525

mode1561

casure1565

moodc1570

rhythm1576

rhyme1586

stotc1590

dimension1597

sextupla1597

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rhythmus1603

cadence1605

time1609

cadency1628

movement1683

lilt1841

metre1873

tempus1889

riddim1943

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun] > as a feature of music

rhythm1873

1576 T. Rogers Philos. Disc. Anat. Minde i. v. f. 5^v Men, which with singing, rithmes, & other instruments of Musick are marueylously delighted.

1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον ix. 429 The art of Musicke existing of three things, Harmonie, Rythme, and Number.

1674 J. T. tr. G. Harvey Theoret. & Pract. Treat. Fevors ii. 14 The equality which Authors are wont to apply to a thick and rare pulse, likewise to the tone or musical rithme, we pass by, being rather apt to occasion confusion to the practising Physician.

1708 J. Philips Cyder ii. 74 Now sportive Youth Carol incondite Rhythms, with suiting Notes.

1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 76 Ancient music..must have derived this power chiefly from the energy and accentuation of the rhythm.

1786 J. Gillies Hist. Anc. Greece I. v. 179 As accent regulated the melody, quantity regulated the rhythm of ancient music.

1822 C. Butler Hist. Mem. Eng. Catholics (ed. 3) IV. xcviii. 464 [Ancient Greek music] was governed by rhythm and quarter tones made a part of its regular vocal scale.

1873 H. C. Banister Music xxxiv. 170 Rhythm..or metre has to do with the symmetrical arrangement of music, with regard to time and accent.

1879 J. Stainer Music of Bible 170 The rhythm of this tune is so symmetrical that it might well be used as a hymn tune.

1880 F. Hueffer in G. Grove Dict. Music II. 148 In the opening allegro agitato descriptive of Mazeppa's ride, strong accents and rapid rhythms naturally prevail.

1912 J. E. C. Flitch Mod. Dancing xiii. 195 The Spanish dance is intensely national. The snapping of the castanets, the short and insolent skirt, the exciting rhythm of the music, do not alone suffice for the performance of the jota or fandango, as some foreign artists would appear to suppose.

1944 W. Russell in M. T. Williams Art of Jazz (1960) iv. 36 His feeling for a joyful, raggy, and stompy rhythm.

1992 N.Y. Times 12 July ii. 22/3 Mr. Stuart's style reflects his influences: the loping boom-chicka-boom rhythm of ‘Doin' My Time’, a duet with Mr. Cash; the souped-up bluegrass of ‘High on a Mountain Top’, an old-timey tune dating back to the 30's.

1994 Sun (Baltimore) 20 Mar. h8/6 Raitt's taste in rhythm, though, is a tad more eclectic than that of the typical hip-hopper.

b. A person's sense of musical rhythm. Chiefly in to have rhythm: to have a natural feeling for rhythm.

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1837 B. von Armin Goethe's Corr. with Child II. 212 One must have rhythm in the mind, to comprehend music in its essential being.

1868 ‘G. Eliot’ Spanish Gypsy iii. 68 The minxes there Have rhythm in their toes.

1900 N.Y. Times 25 Mar. 21/6 He has technique, but he has no rhythm, no touch, and no musical conception of the work whatever.

1930 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 12 Nov. 12/2 An unusual group of numbers which include George Gershwin's ‘I Got Rhythm’.

1976 N.Y. Amsterdam News 3 July d3/2 Blacks are still thought of too often as song and dance men, people with rhythm.

1989 G. E. Lyon Choices 20 The Belle Notes took one of the mice, the music box, a girl who had no rhythm whatsoever, and the director's daughter.

2007 K. English Nikki & Deja 24 Drilling is a lot like dancing, Nikki. You have to have rhythm.

c. Originally U.S. The essentially rhythmic component of a musical composition; the group of instruments or musicians that play this.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > [noun] > rhythm instrument

rhythm instrument1926

rhythm1938

society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > [noun] > rhythm player

rhythm man1929

rhythm1938

society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > company of instrumentalists > [noun] > band > section of

front line1921

rhythm section1926

sax section1932

rhythm1938

1938 D. Baker Young Man with Horn iii. ii. 173 Every fourth dance..turned out to be a trumpet solo by Rick Martin, flanked by some rhythm.

1947 R. de Toledano Frontiers of Jazz 68 The instrumental blend and precision of each section—reed, brass, rhythm.

1956 M. W. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) xv. 170 The standard number of musicians in a dance band was nine: two trumpets, two saxes, one trombone, and four rhythm (banjo, piano, drums, and tuba).

1970 New Yorker 23 May 80/3 Sy Oliver..is holding a retrospective of his work..with the help of a nine-piece group that includes two trumpets,..and three rhythms.

1990 Hit Parader July 21/1 You'll know hundreds of chords and all the basics of rhythm and lead.

2004 M. Dregni Django v. 90 Behind Django and Stéphane's improvisations, Nin-Nin and Chaput played rhythm in a style that became known as la pompe—the pump—for its fierce up-and-down beat.

3. Physiology. The recurrence at (normally) regular intervals of the heartbeat, breathing, or other physiological process; periodicity; an instance of this.alpha, beta, sinus rhythm: see the first element.

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the world > life > the body > system > [noun] > organ > faculty or function of > types of functions

systole1565

reluctation1632

metastasis1663

rhythm1683

rhythmus1707

reaction1860

the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive cycle > [noun] > menstrual cycle

safe period1900

postmenstruum1910

premenstruum1910

mid-cycle1952

unsafe period1961

paramenstruum1966

rhythm1974

1683 W. Charleton Three Anat. Lect. iii. 79 The heart, as agitated by a certain natural necessity, makes most vehement and almost momentany strokes or jerks alternately..nor ever either much varies that constant Rhythm of its pulse, while we are in the state of health.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 132 Whence I might conveniently Discourse and Feel her Pulse... At first they gave me a Slaves Hand, whom I declared to be Sound and Free from any Disease, nothing contradicting the true Tenor and Rythme of Pulsation.

1722 D. Turner Art of Surg. II. 158 I perceiv'd the Tenure or Rhythm of his Pulse..but little varying from that in a sound State.

1829 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. Dis. Chest (ed. 3) ii. i. 547 The movements of the heart.., their order or rythm.

1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. ii. iii. 361 The respiratory rhythm.

1944 S. Bellow Dangling Man (1963) 98 I gazed up at the comfortable room and heard the slight, mixed rhythm of her breathing and mine.

1959 Zeitschr. f. Vitamin- Hormon- & Fermentforschung 10 235 ‘Circadian’ might be applied to all ‘24 hour’ rhythms, whether or not their periods..are different from 24 hours, longer or shorter, by a few minutes or hours.

1974 V. B. Mountcastle et al. Med. Physiol. (ed. 13) II. lvi. 1307/1 The monthly temperature rhythm observed in nonpregnant women, a low temperature level after menses and a high temperature level after ovulation, has been correlated with shifts in the blood concentrations of estrogen and other hormones.

2007 Play: N.Y. Times Sports Mag. June 34/1 Other frequent causes of sudden death due to heart failure include Marfan syndrome..and Long QT syndrome, in which heart rhythm can suddenly become erratic.

4. Art and Architecture. The harmonious sequence or correlation of colours, elements, or masses.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > work of art > [noun] > arrangement of parts

order1563

composition1706

conduct1758

rhythm1776

componency1856

1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 71 In which [works in painting and sculpture] they [sc. the Greeks] have called that symetry and just proportion which reigns in all the parts by the name of Rhythm.

1867 A. Barry Life & Wks. Sir C. Barry iv. 101 The rhythm and symmetry of a stately Italian palace.

1880 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 1 193 While symmetry is an architectural idea,..rhythm is a plastic idea... Symmetry implies and expresses the lasting, uniform and inorganic; rhythm implies change, the organic, as sculpture deals with animal life.

1908 Academy 8 Feb. 486/2 Ultimately, justness of balance and ‘rhythm’ are bound to tell, far more than mere vigour, which makes the most instantaneous appeal to our admiration.

1965 Listener 3 June 830/3 I liked Anthony Eyton's ‘Oak Tree’, and I specially admired the way that he has involved the rhythms of the near branches with the top of the oak in the middle-distance while keeping the forms in their place.

1990 Antiquaries Jrnl. 70 67 Of the few examples of seated children, one is on the monument to John Hugessen... Perhaps it was commonly felt that the squat form of a seated infant would spoil the compositional rhythm.

a. gen. Regularity in the repetition in time or space of an action, process, feature, condition, event, etc.; periodic or cyclical change or movement; an instance of this. Also: continuity of movement or delivery; pace, flow, stride.

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the world > time > frequency > [noun] > being periodical or regularity

periodicalness1671

eurhythmy1706

rhythm1778

periodicity1820

regularity1856

seasonality1934

recursiveness1936

recursivity1952

the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > pace or step

stridec725

stepc975

pacec1330

pass?c1400

pass?a1425

footstep1570

rhythm1778

1778 N. B. Halhed Gram. Bengal Lang. i. 8 Thus in the series of consonants beginning with the letter..ko, an evident rythm is formed by the alternate succession of the simple and aspirated letters; and a cadence is introduced after each fourth, by the intervening nasal.

a1780 J. Harris Philol. Inq. (1781) ii. ii. 61 Rhythm differs from Metre, in as much as Rhythm is Proportion applied to any Motion whatever... Thus, in the drumming of a March, or the dancing of a Hornpipe, there is Rhythm, tho' no Metre.

1825 R. P. Ward Tremaine II. 106 The not unsolemn rhythm of the regular trot of the horses.

1862 J. Tyndall Mountaineering in 1861 ii. 91 Rhythm is the rule with Nature;—she abhors uniformity more than she does a vacuum.

1873 H. Spencer Study Sociol. viii. 181 From antagonist physical forces..there always results, not a medium state, but a rhythm between opposite states.

1881 J. N. Lockyer in Nature 4 Aug. 318/1 That the chief novelty is an absolute rhythm in the spectrum; instead of lines irregularly distributed over the spectrum, we have groups which are beautifully rhythmic in their structure.

1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles III. l. 181 So do flux and reflux—the rhythm of change—alternate and persist in everything under the sky.

1918 A. G. Gardiner Leaves in Wind 27 But in the light, porous soil of my garden on the chalk hills digging goes with a swing and a rhythm that sets the thoughts singing like the birds.

1969 W. Gass Icicles i. 123 There were sales, times of year the price subsided, others again when it rose; there was a rhythm in the market as regular as though it were moved by the moon.

1977 J. Laker One-day Cricket 66 The much publicised Thomson..lost his rhythm and bowled only eight overs.

1991 German Hist. 9 371 Historians know very little about the political culture, social rhythm, and public realm of bourgeois communities.

b. Geology. Repetition of a regular sequence of components in a series of layers of sediment, or the processes which gave rise to them; an instance of this.

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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > sedimentation > [noun] > rhythm

rhythm1895

1895 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 3 127 From the regularity of the sedimentary rhythm and the large number of its cycles, it is assumed to have been occasioned by a regular rhythm of conditions.

1914 C. B. Crampton et al. Geol. of Caithness ix. 89 Sedimentary rhythm in marine deposits usually depends on the principle of the development of calcareous and terrigenous strata from opposite directions to overlap one another.

1937 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 48 1935 Many mud-sand rhythms include strata too thick for seasonal accumulation.

1951 Geol. Mag. 88 166 The major rhythmic units attain a thickness of 100 or so feet but minor or partial rhythms also occur suggesting small changes in the intensity of the flow movement.

2004 F. Oldfield & R. Thompson in R. W. Battarbee et al. Past Climate Variability Europe & Afr. 15 Of especial value are lake sediments in which the annual rhythm of sedimentation gives rise to varves.

†II. Senses relating to rhyme and rhyming.

6. A piece of poetry or verse marked by correspondence of terminal sounds; = rhyme n. 2a. Obsolete.Common in the 17th cent.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > types of poem according to form > [noun] > rhyming poem

rhymea1300

rhythm1567

metre1591

1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. xxi. f. 151 M. Niccolo Amanio..who..for making of vulgar rithmes, therby expressing the amorous affections of Louers, was in our time without comparison.

1591 E. Spenser tr. Petrarch Visions vii, in Complaints sig. Z4^v When ye these rythmes doo read, and vew the rest.

1600 E. Wilkinson His Thameseidos ii. sig. D2 (Luckely) this ragged and vnpolisht Rithme [rhyme time], Into those faire hands fall.

1647 W. Dillingham To Friend in J. Hall Poems sig. A5^v Thy lines pardon the Presse for all the rhythmes, That have committed bin in sencelesse times.

1655 T. Fuller Hist. Univ. Cambr. i. 8 in Church-hist. Brit. A Monk of Peterburgh..had, with his satyrical Latine rythmes, abused the Countie of Norfolk.

1656 W. Sanderson Compl. Hist. Mary & James VI 112 At last, increasing in very bold wayes, and desperate tenents, dispersed in Pamphlets, Rithmes and Ballads.

1677 Poole's Eng. Parnassus (new ed.) Proeme sig. A8 And like Amphion build a lofty Rhythm, That shall out-last the insolence of time.

1688 J. Aubrey in W. J. Thoms Anecd. & Trad. (1839) 83 The vulgar in the west of England doe call the moneth of March Lide—a proverbial Rhythm, ‘Eate Leekes in Lide, and Ramsins in May, And all the year after Physitians may play.’

1837 G. Henderson in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club I. No. 5. 146 This Rythme was very popular about Earlstoun some years since.

1848 E. B. Pusey tr. J. M. Horst Paradise Soul II. v. §vi. 74 A Rhythm representing to the Eternal Father the Life and Passion and Merits of Christ.

7. Poetry or verse marked by correspondence of terminal sounds; = rhyme n. 3. Obsolete.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > [noun] > rhymed verse

rhymea1400

rhythm?1567

?1567 M. Parker Whole Psalter sig. Aii Rythme dogrell playne: as dogs do barke.

1575 G. Gascoigne Certayne Notes Instr. in Posies sig. U.ij Then is there an old kinde of Rithme called Uerlayes.

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis Ded. sig. Aiv Thee ods beetweene verses and rythme is verye great. For in thee one euerye foote,..euery letter is too bee obserued: in thee oother thee last woord is onlye too bee heeded.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage vi. xii. 530 They are much addicted to Poetrie, and make long Poems of their warres, huntings, and loves,..in rithme like the vulgar Italian Sonnets.

1647 J. Cleveland Poems in Char. London-diurnall (Wing C4662) 15 After a tedious Grace in Hopkins rithme [1654, etc. rhime, rhyme], Not for devotion, but to take up time.

1677 Poole's Eng. Parnassus (new ed.) 314 And what were crime In Prose, would be no injury in Rhythm.

1695 Ld. Preston tr. Boethius Of Consol. Philos. Pref. 14 The Author's Sense could not be clearly expressed in the more confin'd way of Rithme [1712 Rhyme].

1713 L. Milbourne Psalmody 33 Men may sing Psalms in Rhythme with as quiet and peaceable minds as they can sing or say those in prose.

a. Correspondence of the terminal sounds of two or more words or metrical lines; an instance of this. Cf. rhyme n. 1b, 1c. Obsolete.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhyme > [noun]

rhymec1300

ranea1500

chiming1580

jingling1582

concord1589

rhythm1599

1599 First Bk. Preseruation Henry VII Ded. sig. A 2 Whose bookes are stuft with lines of prose, with a rythme in the end.

1677 Poole's Eng. Parnassus (new ed.) Pref. sig. a3^v Mr. Sa. Daniel's Apology for Rhythm [i.e. his ‘Defence of Ryme’].

1677 Poole's Eng. Parnassus (new ed.) Pref. sig. a6^v To avoid fœminine rhythms, such as charity and parity.

1721 J. Strype Eccl. Memorials II. i. i. xxxii. 266 [Piers Plowman] is writ in metre, but much different from the manner of our modern verse, there being no rhithms or chiming of words.

1730 W. Reading Fifty Eight Serm. III. iii. 34 The words in the Original are a poetick verse, in which way of writing it is common, for the sake of the rythm, to transpose words, which in prose would be placed otherwise.

1798 W. Beckford Azemia (ed. 2) II. i. 12 The word [sc. reason] occurs here merely for the rhythm [sc. with treason].

b. Contrasted with reason: see rhyme n. Phrases 2. Obsolete.

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1647 A. Brome in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Tragedies sig. f3 Here are no volumes stuft with cheuerle sence,..Nor words, as voyd of Reason, as of Rithme [rhyme time].

1680 H. More Apocalypsis Apocalypseos 332 If there be not more rhythme than Reason in those drolling verses of his.

Compounds

C1.

a. (In sense 1.)

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rhythm-foot n.

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1883 G. M. Hopkins Further Lett. (1956) 329 Music is..the very place where the difference of time-feet and rhythm-feet recognised in Greek poetry is still in force.

1997 W. G. Andrews Ottoman Lyric Poetry 17 The half-line is the largest rhythmical unit and is made up of a number of rhythm-feet.

rhythm-word n.

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c1874 G. M. Hopkins Jrnls. & Papers (1959) 279 In Greek the scanning is by..rhythmic beat, that is beat belonging only to the rhythm-words, not to the sense-words.

1983 L. J. Poteet South Shore Phrase Bk. 70 In Sable River, nearby, the rhythm word is ‘yo’.

2006 C. Kleinkauf River Girls ii. vi. 56 Use the rhythm words your instructor suggests.

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rhythm-deaf adj.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > music appreciation > music lover > [adjective] > not

unmusical1603

earless1605

mistuned1755

deaf1785

timber1815

untunable1851

rhythm-deaf1871

tone-deaf1894

amusical1906

1871 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 267 His remarks upon versification are..instructive to whoever is not rhythm-deaf.

1926 H. W. Fowler Dict. Mod. Eng. Usage 505/2 This writer has produced a single sentence seventeen lines long without a single slip in grammar. That so expert a syntactician should be rhythm-deaf is amazing.

2006 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 17 June to18 It's tone-deaf; or perhaps I should say rhythm-deaf. Actors take breaths in the middle of lines..or come down heavily on the wrong words.

rhythm-drunk adj.

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1916 W. B. Yeats Reveries 194 Verse spoken by a man almost rhythm-drunk at some moment of intensity.

2005 J. Reid Cinemascope Two 44 We also admired the vehement temperamental quality rendered by Pearl Bailey, especially in her rhythm-drunk ‘Frasquita’.

b. (In sense 2.)

rhythm-accent n.

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1880 B. Kellogg Text-bk. on Rhetoric 231 In English and in other modern poetry, the rhythm-accent must agree with the word-accent.

1908 Musical Times 49 115/2 Many graces, and the rhythm accent delicate and firm. Just a suspicion of undue staccato.

1948 Penguin Music Mag. Oct. 36 For instance, Russian composers rely on rhythm-accent for their effect more than on harmony or melody.

2008 Washington Post (Nexis) 21 Nov. we14 Gilchrist has a knack for composing short, catchy melodies with unexpected rhythm accents.

rhythm dancer n.

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1926 La Crosse (Wisconsin) Tribune & Leader-Press 27 Nov. 3/3 It had been decided to send Dorothy over to Europe to live in the colony with the rhythm dancers and an excellent teacher.

1942 Dancing Times May 411/2 Equally pleasing to Jitterbugs and some rhythm dancers will be ‘Russian Salad’.

2007 Korea Herald (Nexis) 30 Nov. Red Fox, a team of beautiful rhythm dancers, will complement the circus show.

rhythm group n.

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1924 Washington Post 20 Apr. iii. 18/2 Friday—Rehearsals of the rhythm group, at 7.

1959 G. Freeman Jack would be Gentleman vi. 129 ‘Give us a song first.’.. ‘Okay; but you'll have to do without the rhythm group.’

2004 M. Dregni Django xii. 247 In came Stéphane Grappelli and an Italian rhythm group.

rhythm musician n.

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1934 Los Angeles Times 29 Mar. i. 13/6 ‘Sophisticated Lady’..will fill the auditorium of the Paramount Theater today when Duke Ellington and his modern rhythm musicians begin a personal appearance.

1977 Rolling Stone 19 May 83/1 Problems related to studio overdubbing (not Benson, but rhythm musicians).

2004 M. Streissguth Voices of Country 42 Rhythm musicians—guitarists, bass players, and the like—..dreaded arrangements and..by and large couldn't read music.

rhythm pattern n.

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1906 Teachers College Rec. 7 107 The song can be clapped so as to give its rhythm pattern.

1946 R. Blesh Shining Trumpets i. 18 Rhythm-pattern of dancers' feet.

1970 P. Oliver Savannah Syncopators 55 Repeated rhythm patterns and rhythmic-melodic patterns..such as are characteristic of boogie-woogie and blues piano.

1994 Keyboard Player Sept. 46/3 By using additional style cards which slot into the top right of the console the number of rhythm patterns and accompaniments can be expanded even further.

rhythm singing n.

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1934 S. R. Nelson All about Jazz iv. 73 Whiteman..started the fashion for organized rhythm singing with the Rhythm Boys.

1977 Belfast Tel. 22 Feb. 8/2 The American group's breed of close harmony and tight rhythm singing.

1996 T. Wilson T. Wilson talks Jazz (2001) iii. 22 ‘Baby’ [White] did a lovely job of the ballads, and Billie [Holliday] was just incomparable with her rhythm singing.

c. (Sense 7.)

† rhythm prose n. Obsolete

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1599 First Bk. Preseruation Henry VII Ded. sig. A 4 As gould surpasseth leade: so the Hexameters surpasse rythme prose.

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rhythm box n. a mechanical or electronic device that produces either a metronomic pulse or a pattern of drum and other percussion sounds.

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1912 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 23 509 The pendulum-control for the rhythm-box.

1967 News Jrnl. (Mansfield, Ohio) 30 Aug. 5/4 The noise of the rhythm box, which gives you the choice of nine rhythmic beats and five added effects, such as Conga beats.

2005 G. Cole Last Miles x. 173 A click track..involves the drummer wearing a pair of headphones and playing in time to a pulse that is generated by a metronome or rhythm box.

rhythm club n. chiefly British (historical) a club specializing in the performance of jazz music.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > music appreciation > music lover > [noun] > of jazz > club

rhythm club1930

1930 Pittsburgh Courier 24 May 6 Bert Hall, owner of the Rhythm Club, stated that he also will sail [to Europe].

1963 Listener 14 Mar. 458/1 People of my generation had to rely on their gramophones and the rhythm clubs to carry them through this period of deprivation.

2004 G. Shearing & A. Shipton Lullaby of Birdland 105 In those days [he] had had quite a lot to do with English rhythm clubs and was an occasional writer for English trade magazines.

rhythm guitar n. a guitar or guitar part in a group, playing or consisting of the rhythmic chord sequences over which a melody or lead part is sung or played.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > guitar or lute type > [noun] > guitar

guitara1637

kitarc1640

Spanish guitar1862

easy rider1912

plectrum guitar1938

rhythm guitar1939

1939 Pittsburgh Courier 30 Dec. 19/4 Those sensational Frenchmen, using violin, bass, one solo and two rhythm guitars, have here a number that makes everybody sit up and take notice.

1968 Blues Unlimited Sept. 23 Preston..takes a few vocals, and lays down some swinging rhythm guitar.

1977 C. McKnight & J. Tobler Bob Marley vi. 79 The instrumental chores of the band were shared like this: Marley—vocals, rhythm guitar; Family Man—bass.

2005 T. Brookes Guitar 316 Every so often he goes into..Freddie Greene mode, playing traditional eight-to-the-bar rhythm guitar.

rhythm guitarist n. a person who plays rhythm guitar.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > string player > [noun] > guitar-player

guitarist1771

guitar-player1834

rhythm guitarist1934

guitar-picker1951

fingerpicker1959

axeman1976

1934 Melody News 1 Nov. 3/2 Lucie is one of the finest rhythm guitarists in the business.

1952 Los Angeles Sentinel 14 Aug. b3/7 T-Bone [Walker]..has since blossomed into the premier..rhythm guitarist in the land.

1967 Listener 21 Dec. 802/1 If you encounter a little riot of colour ambling along Charing Cross Road,..it is the rhythm guitarist of The Who.

1977 Zigzag Mar. 17/5 Bill Cheatham..switched from being their roadie to their rhythm guitarist.

2005 T. Brookes Guitar 123 The early rockabilly guitarists of the fifties were playing Carter licks on electric guitars even when they had a rhythm guitarist to do the strumming.

rhythm instrument n. an instrument constituting part of a group's rhythm section.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > [noun] > rhythm instrument

rhythm instrument1926

rhythm1938

1926 Washington Post 8 Aug. f7/3 As both a melody and the rhythm instrument, the banjo is coming into popularity.

1952 B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz in Amer. vi. 51 The rhythm instruments—drums, bass, and guitar—made up the engine that powered the jazz machine: their function was to keep the syncopated beat going in regular almost inflexible alternations of weak and strong accents.

1995 Request Mar. 19/2 Overdose folds elements of Brazilian percussion into its standard metal riffing, incorporating rhythm instruments like the cueca, a squeaky-sounding fabric drum, and the repinikue, a relative of the tambourine.

rhythm man n. a man who plays a rhythm instrument.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > [noun] > rhythm player

rhythm man1929

rhythm1938

1929 (title of song, perf. L. Armstrong) That rhythm man.

1952 B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz in Amer. vi. 66 St. Cyr is the redoubtable rhythm man who kept such a fine beat going for Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers and Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Seven.

2004 E. Wald Escaping the Delta 154 The guitar work here is that of a band rhythm man, not a blues picker.

rhythm method n. a method of birth control in which sexual intercourse is avoided during the part of a woman's menstrual cycle when ovulation is likely to have occurred.

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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > contraception or birth control > [noun] > rhythm method

natural1917

rhythm method1934

Vatican roulette1962

1934 J. McCabe (title) The rhythm method of natural birth-control.

1972 Human World May 23 You use the rhythm method not just by having intercourse now, but by not having it next week, say.

2005 Time Out 7 Dec. 54/3 His choices..are governed by an elaborate coin-toss procedure, which is about as helpful a way of making major decisions as the rhythm method is for planning a family.

rhythm section n. the part of a pop or jazz band that principally provides the rhythm and harmonic base, usually consisting of percussion, bass, and sometimes piano or guitar.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > company of instrumentalists > [noun] > band > section of

front line1921

rhythm section1926

sax section1932

rhythm1938

1926 Los Angeles Times 20 Sept. ii. 7/2 Carr Brothers are said to have one of the finest rhythm sections of any band that has ever come to Los Angeles.

1938 D. Baker Young Man with Horn iii. i. 141 Rick..started setting chairs together..in threes: reed section, brass section, rhythm section.

1955 A. Morgan in A. J. McCarthy Jazzbk. 18 With a coloured front line..and a mixed white and coloured rhythm section (Dodo Marmorosa, Barney Kessell, Red Callender and Don Lamond) these recordings are amongst the best examples of the use of a guitar in a bop rhythm section.

2000 E. Nisenson Open Sky vii. 116 Is it necessary to have a rhythm section whose primary function is to just keep time?

rhythm stick n. (a) one of a number of sticks of different sizes, used to illustrate the relative lengths of musical notes (rare); (b) a stick used to create a rhythmic beat, esp. each of a pair of sticks struck against each other (cf. clave n.³).

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1916 N.Y. Times 2 Jan. (Mag.) 8/1 The value of notes is taught with a box of blocks, or rhythm sticks, as Mrs. Dunning has called them.

1927 Music Supervisors' Jrnl. 14 45/2 The orchestra..composed of light percussion instruments, such as rhythm sticks.

2002 M. Knowles Tap Roots 60/2 That beat was pounded out by the ‘sticker’ hitting his rhythm stick against the floor.

rhythm system n. = rhythm method n.

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1960 Amer. Catholic Sociol. Rev. 21 129 An adequate knowledge of the rhythm system of birth limitation is a rather recent acquirement, at least for the major part of the American people.

1971 Sunday Mirror 25 July 11 We follow the rhythm system. But we don't use it to avoid procreation. We use it to have children. That's the way it was meant to be.

2005 L. J. Leigh in A. Gore How to leave Place 170 Randall and I had tried to be careful..but when you're seventeen the rhythm system is far from an ideal means of birth control.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	rhythm
释义	rhythmn. Brit. /ˈrɪð(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈrɪðəm/ Forms: 1500s–1600s rhithme, 1500s–1600s rithme, 1500s–1700s rhythme, 1500s–1800s rythm, 1500s–1800s rythme, 1600s–1700s rhithm, 1600s–1700s rithm, 1600s– rhythm. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Probably also partly a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: Latin rhythmus ; rhyme n. Etymology: < classical Latin rhythmus (see rhythmus n.). In branch II., probably originally a spelling variant of rhyme n., arising from the assumption that that word was etymologically linked with classical Latin rhythmus (see note below on pronunciation history, and see also discussion at rhyme n.). In some senses perhaps after Middle French rithme (14th cent.), rhythme (c1512), Middle French, French rythme (early 16th cent.) (with reference to antiquity and in translations) harmony, measured flow (c1370 as ryme ), musical rhythm (a1374; subsequently from c1512), poetic rhythm (1521), flow of words in a phrase or poem (1647), harmonious composition in sculpture (1765), rhythm of the human pulse (1765). The French word was originally a homophone of rime rhyme n.; from c1550 it was distinguished in gender, as masculine; the th only came to be pronounced (as /t/) from the 17th cent. Compare also Spanish ritmo (16th cent.), Italian ritmo (a1375). Compare earlier rhythmica n., rhythmus n.The modern pronunciation with a medial fricative reflects a pronunciation of rhythmus in post-classical Latin (and also in medieval and modern Greek; in classical Latin and in ancient and Hellenistic Greek the sound was an aspirated plosive). The English word was clearly sometimes pronounced as a disyllable with a fricative (whether voiced or unvoiced) in the 17th cent., as shown by the evidence of the orthoepists (see E. J. Dobson Eng. Pronunc. 1500–1700 (ed. 2, 1968) II §§324, 364). However, it is also likely that some of the early examples of the forms recorded at this entry are simply Latinate spelling forms of the word rhyme n., pronounced as a monosyllable without a fricative and with a long vowel: compare e.g. the rhymes with time in quots. 1600 at sense 6, 1647 at sense 6, 1647 at sense 7, 1647 at sense 8b, and 1677 at sense 6, and with crime in quot. 1677 at sense 7. Compare also the spelling ri'me in B. Jonson Volpone (1607) Prol. (see quot. 1607 at rhyme n. Phrases 2), in which the apostrophe apparently represents what is perceived as ‘omitted’ th . Such evidence is found only for the senses at branch II., and there is apparently no unambiguous early evidence for a disyllabic pronunciation in these senses. However, it is perhaps unlikely that there was an entirely consistent split between disyllabic pronunciations for the senses at branch I. and pronunciations identical to that of rhyme n. for the senses at branch II. 18th-cent. pronouncing dictionaries indicate a voiceless fricative in this word, while the evidence of 19th-cent. dictionaries is more varied. N.E.D. (1908) records pronunciations with both voiced and voiceless fricatives. Few dictionaries record the pronunciation with a voiceless fricative after the mid 20th cent. I. Senses relating to a regular repeated pattern of sound or movement. 1. a. Prosody. The measured flow of words or phrases in verse, forming various patterns of sound as determined by the relation of long and short or stressed and unstressed syllables in a metrical foot or line; an instance of this.descending, running, sprung rhythm, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > [noun] cadencec1384 coloura1522 rhythmus1531 running1533 number1553 rhythm1560 cadency1628 chimea1649 run1693 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cci For nothinge is more pleasaunte than hys [sc. Clément Marot's] style, nothynge purer than his speache, nothyng apter or more pleasaunt than hys Rythme. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. v. 64 As we in abusing this terme (ryme) be neuerthelesse excusable applying it to another point in Poesie no lesse curious then their rithme or numerositie which in deede passed the whole verse throughout. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1259 When the melody and rhythme or measure was artificially set to. 1657 A. Sparrow Rationale Bk. Common Prayer (new ed.) 361 They used all decent and grave variety of rythmes and Meeters in their Hymns & Psalms. 1737 E. Manwaring Stichol. viii. 27 All Metre is therefore Rhythm, but not all Rhythm Metre. c1786 T. Jefferson Thoughts on Eng. Prosody in Writings (1903) XVIII. 447 There are but two regular pauses in this whole passage of seven verses. They are constantly drowned by the majesty of the rhythm and sense. 1838 E. Guest Hist. Eng. Rhythms I. 174 The forms in which accentual rhythm made its first appearance amongst us. 1838 E. Guest Hist. Eng. Rhythms I. 174 No temporal rhythms are to be found in our literature. 1845 L. Schmitz tr. K. G. Zumpt Gram. Lat. Lang. 552 The first species, in which the Arsis forms the beginning, is called the descending Rhythm; the other, in which the Thesis forms the beginning, the ascending. 1871 Pub. Sch. Lat. Gram. §227. 467 A most exceptional but felicitous rhythm: ‘Et membratim vitalem deperdere sensus’. 1891 S. R. Driver Introd. Lit. Old Test. vii. 339 In ancient Hebrew poetry, though there was always rhythm, there was..no metre in the strict sense of the term. 1913 A. C. Clark Prose Rhythm in Eng. 18 Rhythm in poetry depends upon the recurrence of longs and shorts, or stressed and unstressed syllables, in a regular order. 1952 R. Ellmann in New Mexico Q. 22 389 He breaks up the mainly anapestic rhythm, particularly in the conversational third line. 1996 Independent 13 Feb. 5/1 He is an experimental poet and writer, breaking rhythm and syntax with an improvisatory freedom more redolent of music than verse. †b. Rhythmical or metrical form. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [noun] rhymec1175 metrec1390 measurec1450 rhythm1656 mete1768 metric1883 1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. viii. 35 Poem..is a speech in meeter or rhithme. 1657 A. Sparrow Churching of Women in Rationale Bk. Common Prayer (1684) 314 One began and sang in rhythm, the rest..hearing with silence. 1763 J. Brown Diss. Poetry & Music §5. 50 The oldest Compositions among the Arabs are in Rythm or rude Verse. 1800 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 327 The adaptedness of one rhythm or form of stanza for one purpose, and of another for a different purpose, is wholly, or nearly so, the result of association. 1850 Ld. Tennyson Princess (ed. 3) iv. 77 Ourself have often tried Valkyrian hymns, or into rhythm have dash'd The passion of the prophetess. 1868 Ld. Tennyson Lucretius 220 For save when shutting reasons up in rhythm, Or Heliconian honey in living words, To make a truth less harsh, I often grew Tired of so much within our little life. †c. A metrical foot. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [noun] > foot footOE rhythm1737 1737 E. Manwaring Stichol. ii. 10 A simple Rhythm or Foot, says Dionysius, has not less than two Syllables, nor more than three. 1749 J. Mason Ess. Power of Numbers & Princ. Harmony 13 These are indifferently called Rhythms, Numbers or Feet. d. The measured flow of words or phrases in prose, speech, etc.; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > abundance of vocabulary > flow of words perfluence1568 profluence1568 profluencya1683 rhythm1832 1832 Encycl. Americana XI. 591 Rhetorical rhythm is satisfied with a pleasing cadence of syllables. 1849 A. M. Bell New Elucidation Princ. Speech & Elocution iv. 230 In every sentence, however uttered,..there is a rhythm. a1854 H. Reed Lect. Eng. Lit. (1878) iii. 107 This fashion of short sentences is fatal to the fine rhythm, which English prose is capable of. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede II. ii. xviii. 46 The church service..its recurrent responses and the familiar rhythm of its collects. 1907 J. Conrad Secret Agent xiii. 441 The mystery of a human brain pulsating wrongfully to the rhythm of journalistic phrases. 1972 E. T. Sithole in T. Kochman Rappin' & Stylin' Out 70 The black man..appreciates the rhythm of his speech and retains it in his songs. 1989 Amer. Poetry Rev. Nov. 13/2 The Morning of the Poem..also has a contrapuntal quality, it employs long spiraling lyric lines..but the reader never feels thrown into the rhythms of prose. 1992 Spoken Eng. 25 46 The importance of assimilation and of elision, the rhythm of English speech, word stress, tone and pitch..are dealt with. 2. a. Music. The systematic grouping of musical sounds, principally according to duration and periodical stress; beat; an instance of this, a particular grouping or arrangement of musical sounds.cross-, quadruple, shuffle, triple rhythm, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun] proportiona1387 measurea1525 mode1561 casure1565 moodc1570 rhythm1576 rhyme1586 stotc1590 dimension1597 sextupla1597 timing1597 rhythmus1603 cadence1605 time1609 cadency1628 movement1683 lilt1841 metre1873 tempus1889 riddim1943 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun] > as a feature of music rhythm1873 1576 T. Rogers Philos. Disc. Anat. Minde i. v. f. 5^v Men, which with singing, rithmes, & other instruments of Musick are marueylously delighted. 1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον ix. 429 The art of Musicke existing of three things, Harmonie, Rythme, and Number. 1674 J. T. tr. G. Harvey Theoret. & Pract. Treat. Fevors ii. 14 The equality which Authors are wont to apply to a thick and rare pulse, likewise to the tone or musical rithme, we pass by, being rather apt to occasion confusion to the practising Physician. 1708 J. Philips Cyder ii. 74 Now sportive Youth Carol incondite Rhythms, with suiting Notes. 1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 76 Ancient music..must have derived this power chiefly from the energy and accentuation of the rhythm. 1786 J. Gillies Hist. Anc. Greece I. v. 179 As accent regulated the melody, quantity regulated the rhythm of ancient music. 1822 C. Butler Hist. Mem. Eng. Catholics (ed. 3) IV. xcviii. 464 [Ancient Greek music] was governed by rhythm and quarter tones made a part of its regular vocal scale. 1873 H. C. Banister Music xxxiv. 170 Rhythm..or metre has to do with the symmetrical arrangement of music, with regard to time and accent. 1879 J. Stainer Music of Bible 170 The rhythm of this tune is so symmetrical that it might well be used as a hymn tune. 1880 F. Hueffer in G. Grove Dict. Music II. 148 In the opening allegro agitato descriptive of Mazeppa's ride, strong accents and rapid rhythms naturally prevail. 1912 J. E. C. Flitch Mod. Dancing xiii. 195 The Spanish dance is intensely national. The snapping of the castanets, the short and insolent skirt, the exciting rhythm of the music, do not alone suffice for the performance of the jota or fandango, as some foreign artists would appear to suppose. 1944 W. Russell in M. T. Williams Art of Jazz (1960) iv. 36 His feeling for a joyful, raggy, and stompy rhythm. 1992 N.Y. Times 12 July ii. 22/3 Mr. Stuart's style reflects his influences: the loping boom-chicka-boom rhythm of ‘Doin' My Time’, a duet with Mr. Cash; the souped-up bluegrass of ‘High on a Mountain Top’, an old-timey tune dating back to the 30's. 1994 Sun (Baltimore) 20 Mar. h8/6 Raitt's taste in rhythm, though, is a tad more eclectic than that of the typical hip-hopper. b. A person's sense of musical rhythm. Chiefly in to have rhythm: to have a natural feeling for rhythm. ΚΠ 1837 B. von Armin Goethe's Corr. with Child II. 212 One must have rhythm in the mind, to comprehend music in its essential being. 1868 ‘G. Eliot’ Spanish Gypsy iii. 68 The minxes there Have rhythm in their toes. 1900 N.Y. Times 25 Mar. 21/6 He has technique, but he has no rhythm, no touch, and no musical conception of the work whatever. 1930 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 12 Nov. 12/2 An unusual group of numbers which include George Gershwin's ‘I Got Rhythm’. 1976 N.Y. Amsterdam News 3 July d3/2 Blacks are still thought of too often as song and dance men, people with rhythm. 1989 G. E. Lyon Choices 20 The Belle Notes took one of the mice, the music box, a girl who had no rhythm whatsoever, and the director's daughter. 2007 K. English Nikki & Deja 24 Drilling is a lot like dancing, Nikki. You have to have rhythm. c. Originally U.S. The essentially rhythmic component of a musical composition; the group of instruments or musicians that play this. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > [noun] > rhythm instrument rhythm instrument1926 rhythm1938 society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > [noun] > rhythm player rhythm man1929 rhythm1938 society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > company of instrumentalists > [noun] > band > section of front line1921 rhythm section1926 sax section1932 rhythm1938 1938 D. Baker Young Man with Horn iii. ii. 173 Every fourth dance..turned out to be a trumpet solo by Rick Martin, flanked by some rhythm. 1947 R. de Toledano Frontiers of Jazz 68 The instrumental blend and precision of each section—reed, brass, rhythm. 1956 M. W. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) xv. 170 The standard number of musicians in a dance band was nine: two trumpets, two saxes, one trombone, and four rhythm (banjo, piano, drums, and tuba). 1970 New Yorker 23 May 80/3 Sy Oliver..is holding a retrospective of his work..with the help of a nine-piece group that includes two trumpets,..and three rhythms. 1990 Hit Parader July 21/1 You'll know hundreds of chords and all the basics of rhythm and lead. 2004 M. Dregni Django v. 90 Behind Django and Stéphane's improvisations, Nin-Nin and Chaput played rhythm in a style that became known as la pompe—the pump—for its fierce up-and-down beat. 3. Physiology. The recurrence at (normally) regular intervals of the heartbeat, breathing, or other physiological process; periodicity; an instance of this.alpha, beta, sinus rhythm: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > system > [noun] > organ > faculty or function of > types of functions systole1565 reluctation1632 metastasis1663 rhythm1683 rhythmus1707 reaction1860 the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive cycle > [noun] > menstrual cycle safe period1900 postmenstruum1910 premenstruum1910 mid-cycle1952 unsafe period1961 paramenstruum1966 rhythm1974 1683 W. Charleton Three Anat. Lect. iii. 79 The heart, as agitated by a certain natural necessity, makes most vehement and almost momentany strokes or jerks alternately..nor ever either much varies that constant Rhythm of its pulse, while we are in the state of health. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 132 Whence I might conveniently Discourse and Feel her Pulse... At first they gave me a Slaves Hand, whom I declared to be Sound and Free from any Disease, nothing contradicting the true Tenor and Rythme of Pulsation. 1722 D. Turner Art of Surg. II. 158 I perceiv'd the Tenure or Rhythm of his Pulse..but little varying from that in a sound State. 1829 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. Dis. Chest (ed. 3) ii. i. 547 The movements of the heart.., their order or rythm. 1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. ii. iii. 361 The respiratory rhythm. 1944 S. Bellow Dangling Man (1963) 98 I gazed up at the comfortable room and heard the slight, mixed rhythm of her breathing and mine. 1959 Zeitschr. f. Vitamin- Hormon- & Fermentforschung 10 235 ‘Circadian’ might be applied to all ‘24 hour’ rhythms, whether or not their periods..are different from 24 hours, longer or shorter, by a few minutes or hours. 1974 V. B. Mountcastle et al. Med. Physiol. (ed. 13) II. lvi. 1307/1 The monthly temperature rhythm observed in nonpregnant women, a low temperature level after menses and a high temperature level after ovulation, has been correlated with shifts in the blood concentrations of estrogen and other hormones. 2007 Play: N.Y. Times Sports Mag. June 34/1 Other frequent causes of sudden death due to heart failure include Marfan syndrome..and Long QT syndrome, in which heart rhythm can suddenly become erratic. 4. Art and Architecture. The harmonious sequence or correlation of colours, elements, or masses. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > work of art > [noun] > arrangement of parts order1563 composition1706 conduct1758 rhythm1776 componency1856 1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 71 In which [works in painting and sculpture] they [sc. the Greeks] have called that symetry and just proportion which reigns in all the parts by the name of Rhythm. 1867 A. Barry Life & Wks. Sir C. Barry iv. 101 The rhythm and symmetry of a stately Italian palace. 1880 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 1 193 While symmetry is an architectural idea,..rhythm is a plastic idea... Symmetry implies and expresses the lasting, uniform and inorganic; rhythm implies change, the organic, as sculpture deals with animal life. 1908 Academy 8 Feb. 486/2 Ultimately, justness of balance and ‘rhythm’ are bound to tell, far more than mere vigour, which makes the most instantaneous appeal to our admiration. 1965 Listener 3 June 830/3 I liked Anthony Eyton's ‘Oak Tree’, and I specially admired the way that he has involved the rhythms of the near branches with the top of the oak in the middle-distance while keeping the forms in their place. 1990 Antiquaries Jrnl. 70 67 Of the few examples of seated children, one is on the monument to John Hugessen... Perhaps it was commonly felt that the squat form of a seated infant would spoil the compositional rhythm. 5. a. gen. Regularity in the repetition in time or space of an action, process, feature, condition, event, etc.; periodic or cyclical change or movement; an instance of this. Also: continuity of movement or delivery; pace, flow, stride. ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > [noun] > being periodical or regularity periodicalness1671 eurhythmy1706 rhythm1778 periodicity1820 regularity1856 seasonality1934 recursiveness1936 recursivity1952 the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > pace or step stridec725 stepc975 pacec1330 pass?c1400 pass?a1425 footstep1570 rhythm1778 1778 N. B. Halhed Gram. Bengal Lang. i. 8 Thus in the series of consonants beginning with the letter..ko, an evident rythm is formed by the alternate succession of the simple and aspirated letters; and a cadence is introduced after each fourth, by the intervening nasal. a1780 J. Harris Philol. Inq. (1781) ii. ii. 61 Rhythm differs from Metre, in as much as Rhythm is Proportion applied to any Motion whatever... Thus, in the drumming of a March, or the dancing of a Hornpipe, there is Rhythm, tho' no Metre. 1825 R. P. Ward Tremaine II. 106 The not unsolemn rhythm of the regular trot of the horses. 1862 J. Tyndall Mountaineering in 1861 ii. 91 Rhythm is the rule with Nature;—she abhors uniformity more than she does a vacuum. 1873 H. Spencer Study Sociol. viii. 181 From antagonist physical forces..there always results, not a medium state, but a rhythm between opposite states. 1881 J. N. Lockyer in Nature 4 Aug. 318/1 That the chief novelty is an absolute rhythm in the spectrum; instead of lines irregularly distributed over the spectrum, we have groups which are beautifully rhythmic in their structure. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles III. l. 181 So do flux and reflux—the rhythm of change—alternate and persist in everything under the sky. 1918 A. G. Gardiner Leaves in Wind 27 But in the light, porous soil of my garden on the chalk hills digging goes with a swing and a rhythm that sets the thoughts singing like the birds. 1969 W. Gass Icicles i. 123 There were sales, times of year the price subsided, others again when it rose; there was a rhythm in the market as regular as though it were moved by the moon. 1977 J. Laker One-day Cricket 66 The much publicised Thomson..lost his rhythm and bowled only eight overs. 1991 German Hist. 9 371 Historians know very little about the political culture, social rhythm, and public realm of bourgeois communities. b. Geology. Repetition of a regular sequence of components in a series of layers of sediment, or the processes which gave rise to them; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > sedimentation > [noun] > rhythm rhythm1895 1895 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 3 127 From the regularity of the sedimentary rhythm and the large number of its cycles, it is assumed to have been occasioned by a regular rhythm of conditions. 1914 C. B. Crampton et al. Geol. of Caithness ix. 89 Sedimentary rhythm in marine deposits usually depends on the principle of the development of calcareous and terrigenous strata from opposite directions to overlap one another. 1937 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 48 1935 Many mud-sand rhythms include strata too thick for seasonal accumulation. 1951 Geol. Mag. 88 166 The major rhythmic units attain a thickness of 100 or so feet but minor or partial rhythms also occur suggesting small changes in the intensity of the flow movement. 2004 F. Oldfield & R. Thompson in R. W. Battarbee et al. Past Climate Variability Europe & Afr. 15 Of especial value are lake sediments in which the annual rhythm of sedimentation gives rise to varves. †II. Senses relating to rhyme and rhyming. 6. A piece of poetry or verse marked by correspondence of terminal sounds; = rhyme n. 2a. Obsolete.Common in the 17th cent. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > types of poem according to form > [noun] > rhyming poem rhymea1300 rhythm1567 metre1591 1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. xxi. f. 151 M. Niccolo Amanio..who..for making of vulgar rithmes, therby expressing the amorous affections of Louers, was in our time without comparison. 1591 E. Spenser tr. Petrarch Visions vii, in Complaints sig. Z4^v When ye these rythmes doo read, and vew the rest. 1600 E. Wilkinson His Thameseidos ii. sig. D2 (Luckely) this ragged and vnpolisht Rithme [rhyme time], Into those faire hands fall. 1647 W. Dillingham To Friend in J. Hall Poems sig. A5^v Thy lines pardon the Presse for all the rhythmes, That have committed bin in sencelesse times. 1655 T. Fuller Hist. Univ. Cambr. i. 8 in Church-hist. Brit. A Monk of Peterburgh..had, with his satyrical Latine rythmes, abused the Countie of Norfolk. 1656 W. Sanderson Compl. Hist. Mary & James VI 112 At last, increasing in very bold wayes, and desperate tenents, dispersed in Pamphlets, Rithmes and Ballads. 1677 Poole's Eng. Parnassus (new ed.) Proeme sig. A8 And like Amphion build a lofty Rhythm, That shall out-last the insolence of time. 1688 J. Aubrey in W. J. Thoms Anecd. & Trad. (1839) 83 The vulgar in the west of England doe call the moneth of March Lide—a proverbial Rhythm, ‘Eate Leekes in Lide, and Ramsins in May, And all the year after Physitians may play.’ 1837 G. Henderson in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club I. No. 5. 146 This Rythme was very popular about Earlstoun some years since. 1848 E. B. Pusey tr. J. M. Horst Paradise Soul II. v. §vi. 74 A Rhythm representing to the Eternal Father the Life and Passion and Merits of Christ. 7. Poetry or verse marked by correspondence of terminal sounds; = rhyme n. 3. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > [noun] > rhymed verse rhymea1400 rhythm?1567 ?1567 M. Parker Whole Psalter sig. Aii Rythme dogrell playne: as dogs do barke. 1575 G. Gascoigne Certayne Notes Instr. in Posies sig. U.ij Then is there an old kinde of Rithme called Uerlayes. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis Ded. sig. Aiv Thee ods beetweene verses and rythme is verye great. For in thee one euerye foote,..euery letter is too bee obserued: in thee oother thee last woord is onlye too bee heeded. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage vi. xii. 530 They are much addicted to Poetrie, and make long Poems of their warres, huntings, and loves,..in rithme like the vulgar Italian Sonnets. 1647 J. Cleveland Poems in Char. London-diurnall (Wing C4662) 15 After a tedious Grace in Hopkins rithme [1654, etc. rhime, rhyme], Not for devotion, but to take up time. 1677 Poole's Eng. Parnassus (new ed.) 314 And what were crime In Prose, would be no injury in Rhythm. 1695 Ld. Preston tr. Boethius Of Consol. Philos. Pref. 14 The Author's Sense could not be clearly expressed in the more confin'd way of Rithme [1712 Rhyme]. 1713 L. Milbourne Psalmody 33 Men may sing Psalms in Rhythme with as quiet and peaceable minds as they can sing or say those in prose. 8. a. Correspondence of the terminal sounds of two or more words or metrical lines; an instance of this. Cf. rhyme n. 1b, 1c. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhyme > [noun] rhymec1300 ranea1500 chiming1580 jingling1582 concord1589 rhythm1599 1599 First Bk. Preseruation Henry VII Ded. sig. A 2 Whose bookes are stuft with lines of prose, with a rythme in the end. 1677 Poole's Eng. Parnassus (new ed.) Pref. sig. a3^v Mr. Sa. Daniel's Apology for Rhythm [i.e. his ‘Defence of Ryme’]. 1677 Poole's Eng. Parnassus (new ed.) Pref. sig. a6^v To avoid fœminine rhythms, such as charity and parity. 1721 J. Strype Eccl. Memorials II. i. i. xxxii. 266 [Piers Plowman] is writ in metre, but much different from the manner of our modern verse, there being no rhithms or chiming of words. 1730 W. Reading Fifty Eight Serm. III. iii. 34 The words in the Original are a poetick verse, in which way of writing it is common, for the sake of the rythm, to transpose words, which in prose would be placed otherwise. 1798 W. Beckford Azemia (ed. 2) II. i. 12 The word [sc. reason] occurs here merely for the rhythm [sc. with treason]. b. Contrasted with reason: see rhyme n. Phrases 2. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1647 A. Brome in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Tragedies sig. f3 Here are no volumes stuft with cheuerle sence,..Nor words, as voyd of Reason, as of Rithme [rhyme time]. 1680 H. More Apocalypsis Apocalypseos 332 If there be not more rhythme than Reason in those drolling verses of his. Compounds C1. a. (In sense 1.) (a) rhythm-foot n. ΚΠ 1883 G. M. Hopkins Further Lett. (1956) 329 Music is..the very place where the difference of time-feet and rhythm-feet recognised in Greek poetry is still in force. 1997 W. G. Andrews Ottoman Lyric Poetry 17 The half-line is the largest rhythmical unit and is made up of a number of rhythm-feet. rhythm-word n. ΚΠ c1874 G. M. Hopkins Jrnls. & Papers (1959) 279 In Greek the scanning is by..rhythmic beat, that is beat belonging only to the rhythm-words, not to the sense-words. 1983 L. J. Poteet South Shore Phrase Bk. 70 In Sable River, nearby, the rhythm word is ‘yo’. 2006 C. Kleinkauf River Girls ii. vi. 56 Use the rhythm words your instructor suggests. (b) rhythm-deaf adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > music appreciation > music lover > [adjective] > not unmusical1603 earless1605 mistuned1755 deaf1785 timber1815 untunable1851 rhythm-deaf1871 tone-deaf1894 amusical1906 1871 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 267 His remarks upon versification are..instructive to whoever is not rhythm-deaf. 1926 H. W. Fowler Dict. Mod. Eng. Usage 505/2 This writer has produced a single sentence seventeen lines long without a single slip in grammar. That so expert a syntactician should be rhythm-deaf is amazing. 2006 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 17 June to18 It's tone-deaf; or perhaps I should say rhythm-deaf. Actors take breaths in the middle of lines..or come down heavily on the wrong words. rhythm-drunk adj. ΚΠ 1916 W. B. Yeats Reveries 194 Verse spoken by a man almost rhythm-drunk at some moment of intensity. 2005 J. Reid Cinemascope Two 44 We also admired the vehement temperamental quality rendered by Pearl Bailey, especially in her rhythm-drunk ‘Frasquita’. b. (In sense 2.) rhythm-accent n. ΚΠ 1880 B. Kellogg Text-bk. on Rhetoric 231 In English and in other modern poetry, the rhythm-accent must agree with the word-accent. 1908 Musical Times 49 115/2 Many graces, and the rhythm accent delicate and firm. Just a suspicion of undue staccato. 1948 Penguin Music Mag. Oct. 36 For instance, Russian composers rely on rhythm-accent for their effect more than on harmony or melody. 2008 Washington Post (Nexis) 21 Nov. we14 Gilchrist has a knack for composing short, catchy melodies with unexpected rhythm accents. rhythm dancer n. ΚΠ 1926 La Crosse (Wisconsin) Tribune & Leader-Press 27 Nov. 3/3 It had been decided to send Dorothy over to Europe to live in the colony with the rhythm dancers and an excellent teacher. 1942 Dancing Times May 411/2 Equally pleasing to Jitterbugs and some rhythm dancers will be ‘Russian Salad’. 2007 Korea Herald (Nexis) 30 Nov. Red Fox, a team of beautiful rhythm dancers, will complement the circus show. rhythm group n. ΚΠ 1924 Washington Post 20 Apr. iii. 18/2 Friday—Rehearsals of the rhythm group, at 7. 1959 G. Freeman Jack would be Gentleman vi. 129 ‘Give us a song first.’.. ‘Okay; but you'll have to do without the rhythm group.’ 2004 M. Dregni Django xii. 247 In came Stéphane Grappelli and an Italian rhythm group. rhythm musician n. ΚΠ 1934 Los Angeles Times 29 Mar. i. 13/6 ‘Sophisticated Lady’..will fill the auditorium of the Paramount Theater today when Duke Ellington and his modern rhythm musicians begin a personal appearance. 1977 Rolling Stone 19 May 83/1 Problems related to studio overdubbing (not Benson, but rhythm musicians). 2004 M. Streissguth Voices of Country 42 Rhythm musicians—guitarists, bass players, and the like—..dreaded arrangements and..by and large couldn't read music. rhythm pattern n. ΚΠ 1906 Teachers College Rec. 7 107 The song can be clapped so as to give its rhythm pattern. 1946 R. Blesh Shining Trumpets i. 18 Rhythm-pattern of dancers' feet. 1970 P. Oliver Savannah Syncopators 55 Repeated rhythm patterns and rhythmic-melodic patterns..such as are characteristic of boogie-woogie and blues piano. 1994 Keyboard Player Sept. 46/3 By using additional style cards which slot into the top right of the console the number of rhythm patterns and accompaniments can be expanded even further. rhythm singing n. ΚΠ 1934 S. R. Nelson All about Jazz iv. 73 Whiteman..started the fashion for organized rhythm singing with the Rhythm Boys. 1977 Belfast Tel. 22 Feb. 8/2 The American group's breed of close harmony and tight rhythm singing. 1996 T. Wilson T. Wilson talks Jazz (2001) iii. 22 ‘Baby’ [White] did a lovely job of the ballads, and Billie [Holliday] was just incomparable with her rhythm singing. c. (Sense 7.) † rhythm prose n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1599 First Bk. Preseruation Henry VII Ded. sig. A 4 As gould surpasseth leade: so the Hexameters surpasse rythme prose. C2. rhythm box n. a mechanical or electronic device that produces either a metronomic pulse or a pattern of drum and other percussion sounds. ΚΠ 1912 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 23 509 The pendulum-control for the rhythm-box. 1967 News Jrnl. (Mansfield, Ohio) 30 Aug. 5/4 The noise of the rhythm box, which gives you the choice of nine rhythmic beats and five added effects, such as Conga beats. 2005 G. Cole Last Miles x. 173 A click track..involves the drummer wearing a pair of headphones and playing in time to a pulse that is generated by a metronome or rhythm box. rhythm club n. chiefly British (historical) a club specializing in the performance of jazz music. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > music appreciation > music lover > [noun] > of jazz > club rhythm club1930 1930 Pittsburgh Courier 24 May 6 Bert Hall, owner of the Rhythm Club, stated that he also will sail [to Europe]. 1963 Listener 14 Mar. 458/1 People of my generation had to rely on their gramophones and the rhythm clubs to carry them through this period of deprivation. 2004 G. Shearing & A. Shipton Lullaby of Birdland 105 In those days [he] had had quite a lot to do with English rhythm clubs and was an occasional writer for English trade magazines. rhythm guitar n. a guitar or guitar part in a group, playing or consisting of the rhythmic chord sequences over which a melody or lead part is sung or played. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > guitar or lute type > [noun] > guitar guitara1637 kitarc1640 Spanish guitar1862 easy rider1912 plectrum guitar1938 rhythm guitar1939 1939 Pittsburgh Courier 30 Dec. 19/4 Those sensational Frenchmen, using violin, bass, one solo and two rhythm guitars, have here a number that makes everybody sit up and take notice. 1968 Blues Unlimited Sept. 23 Preston..takes a few vocals, and lays down some swinging rhythm guitar. 1977 C. McKnight & J. Tobler Bob Marley vi. 79 The instrumental chores of the band were shared like this: Marley—vocals, rhythm guitar; Family Man—bass. 2005 T. Brookes Guitar 316 Every so often he goes into..Freddie Greene mode, playing traditional eight-to-the-bar rhythm guitar. rhythm guitarist n. a person who plays rhythm guitar. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > string player > [noun] > guitar-player guitarist1771 guitar-player1834 rhythm guitarist1934 guitar-picker1951 fingerpicker1959 axeman1976 1934 Melody News 1 Nov. 3/2 Lucie is one of the finest rhythm guitarists in the business. 1952 Los Angeles Sentinel 14 Aug. b3/7 T-Bone [Walker]..has since blossomed into the premier..rhythm guitarist in the land. 1967 Listener 21 Dec. 802/1 If you encounter a little riot of colour ambling along Charing Cross Road,..it is the rhythm guitarist of The Who. 1977 Zigzag Mar. 17/5 Bill Cheatham..switched from being their roadie to their rhythm guitarist. 2005 T. Brookes Guitar 123 The early rockabilly guitarists of the fifties were playing Carter licks on electric guitars even when they had a rhythm guitarist to do the strumming. rhythm instrument n. an instrument constituting part of a group's rhythm section. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > [noun] > rhythm instrument rhythm instrument1926 rhythm1938 1926 Washington Post 8 Aug. f7/3 As both a melody and the rhythm instrument, the banjo is coming into popularity. 1952 B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz in Amer. vi. 51 The rhythm instruments—drums, bass, and guitar—made up the engine that powered the jazz machine: their function was to keep the syncopated beat going in regular almost inflexible alternations of weak and strong accents. 1995 Request Mar. 19/2 Overdose folds elements of Brazilian percussion into its standard metal riffing, incorporating rhythm instruments like the cueca, a squeaky-sounding fabric drum, and the repinikue, a relative of the tambourine. rhythm man n. a man who plays a rhythm instrument. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > [noun] > rhythm player rhythm man1929 rhythm1938 1929 (title of song, perf. L. Armstrong) That rhythm man. 1952 B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz in Amer. vi. 66 St. Cyr is the redoubtable rhythm man who kept such a fine beat going for Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers and Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Seven. 2004 E. Wald Escaping the Delta 154 The guitar work here is that of a band rhythm man, not a blues picker. rhythm method n. a method of birth control in which sexual intercourse is avoided during the part of a woman's menstrual cycle when ovulation is likely to have occurred. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > contraception or birth control > [noun] > rhythm method natural1917 rhythm method1934 Vatican roulette1962 1934 J. McCabe (title) The rhythm method of natural birth-control. 1972 Human World May 23 You use the rhythm method not just by having intercourse now, but by not having it next week, say. 2005 Time Out 7 Dec. 54/3 His choices..are governed by an elaborate coin-toss procedure, which is about as helpful a way of making major decisions as the rhythm method is for planning a family. rhythm section n. the part of a pop or jazz band that principally provides the rhythm and harmonic base, usually consisting of percussion, bass, and sometimes piano or guitar. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > company of instrumentalists > [noun] > band > section of front line1921 rhythm section1926 sax section1932 rhythm1938 1926 Los Angeles Times 20 Sept. ii. 7/2 Carr Brothers are said to have one of the finest rhythm sections of any band that has ever come to Los Angeles. 1938 D. Baker Young Man with Horn iii. i. 141 Rick..started setting chairs together..in threes: reed section, brass section, rhythm section. 1955 A. Morgan in A. J. McCarthy Jazzbk. 18 With a coloured front line..and a mixed white and coloured rhythm section (Dodo Marmorosa, Barney Kessell, Red Callender and Don Lamond) these recordings are amongst the best examples of the use of a guitar in a bop rhythm section. 2000 E. Nisenson Open Sky vii. 116 Is it necessary to have a rhythm section whose primary function is to just keep time? rhythm stick n. (a) one of a number of sticks of different sizes, used to illustrate the relative lengths of musical notes (rare); (b) a stick used to create a rhythmic beat, esp. each of a pair of sticks struck against each other (cf. clave n.³). ΚΠ 1916 N.Y. Times 2 Jan. (Mag.) 8/1 The value of notes is taught with a box of blocks, or rhythm sticks, as Mrs. Dunning has called them. 1927 Music Supervisors' Jrnl. 14 45/2 The orchestra..composed of light percussion instruments, such as rhythm sticks. 2002 M. Knowles Tap Roots 60/2 That beat was pounded out by the ‘sticker’ hitting his rhythm stick against the floor. rhythm system n. = rhythm method n. ΚΠ 1960 Amer. Catholic Sociol. Rev. 21 129 An adequate knowledge of the rhythm system of birth limitation is a rather recent acquirement, at least for the major part of the American people. 1971 Sunday Mirror 25 July 11 We follow the rhythm system. But we don't use it to avoid procreation. We use it to have children. That's the way it was meant to be. 2005 L. J. Leigh in A. Gore How to leave Place 170 Randall and I had tried to be careful..but when you're seventeen the rhythm system is far from an ideal means of birth control. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). rhythmv. Brit. /ˈrɪð(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈrɪðəm/ Forms: see rhythm n. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Perhaps also partly a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: rhythm n.; rhyme v. Etymology: < rhythm n.; in early use perhaps simply a spelling variant of rhyme v.; compare rhythm n. II. and discussion at that entry. Compare also earlier rhythmer n., rhythming n. †1. intransitive. To make verses or rhymes; = rhyme v. 1. Also transitive: †to drive (a person) into a state by rhyming. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > compose poetry [verb (intransitive)] versec1000 rhymec1300 versify1377 makea1387 metrea1415 poetizea1586 compose1602 poetrize1602 sing1638 rhythm1655 poeticize1817 poesy1820 rune1832 1655 G. Wharton Ephemeris sig. C2 Rythm you whose Measures Charm your better Luck, I must be Mute. 1679 S. Woodford Paraphr. upon Canticles Pref. sig. b2 We will be Rhythming, and Printing too. 1709 W. Nelson Rights Clergy Great Brit. Ded. sig. A4^v Wit, which consists in lampooning your character, in declaiming against your maintenance..and..Rithming you into the Love of Poverty which they hate above all things. 1882 Cent. Mag. May 104/1 It is hard to conceive why Mr. Lowell should permit his editions to retain the extravaganza of ‘Dr. Knott’, so little above the grade of the hackney verse in which poor Hood punned and rhythmed. 2. †a. transitive. To set to verse or rhyme. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1825 Monthly Mag. Nov. 351/1 The overwhelming of Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea..is thus rhythmed: ‘The tempests roar, the surges lash, [etc.]’. 1867 New Monthly Mag. Nov. 331 Pierron is even cruel enough to suggest that, as La Motte rhythmed the prose of Madame Dacier, young Arouet did the same thing. b. transitive. To provide with rhythm; to make rhythmical. Cf. rhythmed adj. 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > put into rhythm [verb (transitive)] rhythmize?1862 rhythm1889 1889 Surveyor 2 July 7 Utilizing an idea of M. Liais, of rhythming the signals, in order to render the observations more certain. 1904 McClure's Mag. Jan. 312/1 The breathing of the sleepers rhythmed the silence. 1922 V. Woolf Diary 23 June (1978) II. 178 Eliot dined last Sunday & read his poem. He sang it & chanted it rhythmed it. 2008 Village Voice (N.Y.) 23 Sept. 35/3 The dancers project plenty of hip-hop attitude,..but slyly, Keigwin has shaped and rhythmed the steps with style and panache. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1560v.1655
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