OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 28397

cadence

/ˈkeɪ.dn̩s/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cadencia
The measure or beat of movement.
Getting into a good jigging rhythm means making short quick jerks in a regular cadence that might average about one jerk every 1.5 to 2 seconds.
cadencia
Balanced, rhythmic flow.
Night has now passed in the Saudi desert and as we hear from Nightline correspondent Forrest Sawyer, the normal cadence of life at the front is about to change.
You find not the apostrophas, and so miss the accent: let me supervise the canzonet. Here are only numbers ratified; but, for the elegancy, facility, and golden cadence of poesy, c…
cadencia
The general inflection or modulation of the voice, or of any sound.
Blustering winds, which all night long / Had roused the sea, now with hoarse cadence lull / Seafaring men o'erwatched.
The accents […] were in passion's tenderest cadence.
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