| 单词 | cadence |
| 释义 | cadence (once / 1910 pages) 1n 2n 3n The word cadence has its own lovely cadence — rhythm of sound as it's spoken. Cadence has come to mean "the rhythm of sounds" from its root cadere which means "to fall." Originally designating falling tones especially at the end of lines of music or poetry, cadence broadened to mean the rhythms of the tones and sometimes even the rhythm of sounds in general. Think of the cadence of the marching band at a football game or the cadence of the crickets on a warm spring night. You can remember the "fall" idea by thinking of one of the only words that contains it — decadence — which has the prefix de- at the front to mean down, or downfall. WORD FAMILYcadence: cadences+/cadency: cadencies/cadent: cadence, cadency USAGE EXAMPLESHere, he drinks a cocktail called the Hudson Duster — rye, lemon juice, amaretto — and contemplates the cadence of the average Drynuary. New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) The singing is spectral, the cadence is practically spoken, and, as a bonus, the beat is ghost-EDM, with thumps that flicker on and off. New York Times(Dec 09, 2016) Ralph’s accompaniment is as spare as a prison cell: A lone piano, sounding naked notes with the occasional deceptive cadence. Los Angeles Times(Dec 08, 2016) 1 n (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper beat, measure, meter, metre catalexis the absence of a syllable in the last foot of a line or verse scansionanalysis of verse into metrical patterns common measure, common meterthe usual (iambic) meter of a ballad foot, metrical foot, metrical unit(prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm dactyla metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables iamb, iambusa metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables anapaest, anapesta metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables amphibracha metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed syllables (e.g., `remember') trocheea metrical unit with stressed-unstressed syllables spondeea metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables dibrach, pyrrhica metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables poetic rhythm, prosody, rhythmic pattern (prosody) a system of versification n a recurrent rhythmical series 3Syn|Hyper cadency rhythmicity the rhythmic property imparted by the accents and relative durations of notes in a piece of music n the close of a musical section Hypo|Hyper amen cadence, plagal cadence a cadence (frequently ending church music) in which the chord of the subdominant precedes the chord of the tonic musical passage, passage a short section of a musical composition |
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