'Cadence' definitions:
Definition of 'cadence'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Cadence'
From: GCIDE
- Cadence \Ca"dence\, n. [OE. cadence, cadens, LL. cadentia a falling, fr. L. cadere to fall; cf. F. cadence, It. cadenza. See Chance.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The act or state of declining or sinking. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Now was the sun in western cadence low. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A fall of the voice in reading or speaking, especially at the end of a sentence. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A rhythmical modulation of the voice or of any sound; as, music of bells in cadence sweet. [1913 Webster]
- Blustering winds, which all night long Had roused the sea, now with hoarse cadence lull Seafaring men o'erwatched. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- The accents . . . were in passion's tenderest cadence. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Rhythmical flow of language, in prose or verse. [1913 Webster]
- Golden cadence of poesy. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- If in any composition much attention was paid to the flow of the rhythm, it was said (at least in the 14th and 15th centuries) to be "prosed in faire cadence." --Dr. Guest. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Her.) See Cadency. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Man.) Harmony and proportion in motions, as of a well-managed horse. [1913 Webster]
- 7. (Mil.) A uniform time and place in marching. [1913 Webster]
- 8. (Mus.) (a) The close or fall of a strain; the point of rest, commonly reached by the immediate succession of the tonic to the dominant chord. (b) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy. [1913 Webster]
- Imperfect cadence. (Mus.) See under Imperfect. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Cadence'
From: GCIDE
- Cadence \Ca"dence\, v. t. To regulate by musical measure. [1913 Webster]
- These parting numbers, cadenced by my grief. --Philips. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'cadence'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accent,
- accentuation,
- acciaccatura,
- Alexandrine,
- amphibrach,
- amphimacer,
- anacrusis,
- anapest,
- antispast,
- appoggiatura,
- arabesque,
- arsis,
- authentic cadence,
- bacchius,
- bass passage,
- beat,
- bourdon,
- bridge,
- burden,
- cadency,
- cadenza,
- caesura,
- catalexis,
- catenary,
- chloriamb,
- chloriambus,
- chorus,
- coda,
- colon,
- coloratura,
- counterpoint,
- cretic,
- dactyl,
- dactylic hexameter,
- decline,
- decurrence,
- development,
- diaeresis,
- dimeter,
- dipody,
- division,
- dochmiac,
- droop,
- elegiac,
- elegiac couplet,
- elegiac pentameter,
- embellishment,
- emphasis,
- epitrite,
- exposition,
- false cadence,
- feminine caesura,
- figure,
- fioritura,
- flight,
- flourish,
- folderol,
- foot,
- grace,
- grace note,
- half cadence,
- harmonic close,
- heptameter,
- heptapody,
- heroic couplet,
- hexameter,
- hexapody,
- iamb,
- iambic,
- iambic pentameter,
- ictus,
- imperfect cadence,
- incidental,
- incidental note,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- introductory phrase,
- ionic,
- jingle,
- lapse,
- level of stress,
- lilt,
- long mordent,
- lowering,
- masculine caesura,
- measure,
- meter,
- metrical accent,
- metrical foot,
- metrical group,
- metrical unit,
- metrics,
- metron,
- mixed cadence,
- molossus,
- mora,
- mordent,
- movement,
- musical phrase,
- musical sentence,
- numbers,
- ornament,
- paeon,
- part,
- passage,
- pentameter,
- pentapody,
- period,
- phrase,
- plagal cadence,
- pralltriller,
- primary stress,
- proceleusmatic,
- prosodics,
- prosody,
- pulse,
- pyrrhic,
- quantity,
- refrain,
- resolution,
- response,
- rhythm,
- rhythmic pattern,
- rhythmical stress,
- ritornello,
- roulade,
- run,
- sag,
- secondary stress,
- section,
- single mordent,
- sinkage,
- slump,
- spondee,
- sprung rhythm,
- stanza,
- statement,
- strain,
- stress,
- stress accent,
- stress pattern,
- submergence,
- subsidence,
- swag,
- swing,
- syzygy,
- tailpiece,
- tempo,
- tertiary stress,
- tetrameter,
- tetrapody,
- tetraseme,
- thesis,
- tribrach,
- trimeter,
- tripody,
- triseme,
- trochee,
- turn,
- tutti,
- tutti passage,
- variation,
- verse,
- weak stress