cadencenoun [ C ]
uk/ˈkeɪ.dəns/us/ˈkeɪ.dəns/cadence noun [ C ] (VOICE)
the regular rise and fall of the voice
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Ways of speaking
- accent
- accentuate
- aitch
- asperity
- BBC English
- cut glass
- get your tongue around/round sth idiom
- intone
- lenis
- modulate
- monotone
- plummy
- pragmatics
- singsong
- soft-spoken
- sotto voce
- speech therapy
- spoken
- stumble
- trip off the tongue idiom
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cadence noun [ C ] (MUSIC)
specialized music a set of chords (= different notes played together) at the end of a piece of music
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Technical music terms
- accidental
- adagio
- allegro
- andante
- antiphonal
- arpeggio
- arr
- arrange
- harmonic
- harmony
- key signature
- legato
- mike check
- motif
- timbre
- tremolo
- tuning
- twelve-tone
- twelve-tone scale
- unison
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