EnglishDefinition
- : the beat, time, or measure of rhythmical motion or activity //The drill sergeant counted cadence. //the steady cadence of the drums: a rhythmic sequence or flow of sounds in language //the grand cadence of his poetry: a regular and repeated pattern of activity //In addition to our weekly cadence, we take a step back once a quarter to think about our platform a little more strategically. — David Vandegrift //To meet its cadence of a launch every other week, SpaceX must build at least two of these each month. — Eric Berger //Then in the evening, it's off to the boxing gym or a sparring session for two to three more hours. In recent years, she's kept a cadence of two to four fights annually, her last being a loss for the WBC light middleweight world title in Poland in September. — Deanna Cioppa
- : a falling inflection of the voice: a concluding and usually falling strainspecifically : a musical chord sequence moving to a harmonic close or point of rest and giving the sense of harmonic completion
- : the modulated and rhythmic recurrence of a sound especially in nature
- //the steady cadence of the drums
- //Oars moved back and forth in smooth cadence.
- //He speaks with a soft Southern cadence.
NOTE: Since at least the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (1888), this word has been attributed to Italian, either directly or through French. However, attestations of French cadence and Italian cadenza are significantly later than the first occurrences of cadence in Middle English (ca. 1390) and early Scots (ca. 1420). (The word also occurs in Chaucer's House of Fame, composed ca. 1380 and attested earliest in a manuscript of ca. 1450.) In Medieval Latin cadentia appears in the approximate sense “verse rhythm” (pedum cadentia) in John of Garland's Parisiana poetria (composed ca. 1234).
Synonyms
- the recurrent pattern formed by a series of sounds having a regular rise and fall in intensity //the soothing cadence of the lecturer's voice nearly put me to sleep
Definition
- : the beat, time, or measure of rhythmical motion or activity //The drill sergeant counted cadence. //the steady cadence of the drums: a rhythmic sequence or flow of sounds in language //the grand cadence of his poetry: a regular and repeated pattern of activity //In addition to our weekly cadence, we take a step back once a quarter to think about our platform a little more strategically. — David Vandegrift //To meet its cadence of a launch every other week, SpaceX must build at least two of these each month. — Eric Berger //Then in the evening, it's off to the boxing gym or a sparring session for two to three more hours. In recent years, she's kept a cadence of two to four fights annually, her last being a loss for the WBC light middleweight world title in Poland in September. — Deanna Cioppa
- : a falling inflection of the voice: a concluding and usually falling strainspecifically : a musical chord sequence moving to a harmonic close or point of rest and giving the sense of harmonic completion
- : the modulated and rhythmic recurrence of a sound especially in nature
- //the steady cadence of the drums
- //Oars moved back and forth in smooth cadence.
- //He speaks with a soft Southern cadence.
NOTE: Since at least the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (1888), this word has been attributed to Italian, either directly or through French. However, attestations of French cadence and Italian cadenza are significantly later than the first occurrences of cadence in Middle English (ca. 1390) and early Scots (ca. 1420). (The word also occurs in Chaucer's House of Fame, composed ca. 1380 and attested earliest in a manuscript of ca. 1450.) In Medieval Latin cadentia appears in the approximate sense “verse rhythm” (pedum cadentia) in John of Garland's Parisiana poetria (composed ca. 1234).
Synonyms
- the recurrent pattern formed by a series of sounds having a regular rise and fall in intensity //the soothing cadence of the lecturer's voice nearly put me to sleep
Definition
- : the beat, time, or measure of rhythmical motion or activity //The drill sergeant counted cadence. //the steady cadence of the drums: a rhythmic sequence or flow of sounds in language //the grand cadence of his poetry: a regular and repeated pattern of activity //In addition to our weekly cadence, we take a step back once a quarter to think about our platform a little more strategically. — David Vandegrift //To meet its cadence of a launch every other week, SpaceX must build at least two of these each month. — Eric Berger //Then in the evening, it's off to the boxing gym or a sparring session for two to three more hours. In recent years, she's kept a cadence of two to four fights annually, her last being a loss for the WBC light middleweight world title in Poland in September. — Deanna Cioppa
- : a falling inflection of the voice: a concluding and usually falling strainspecifically : a musical chord sequence moving to a harmonic close or point of rest and giving the sense of harmonic completion
- : the modulated and rhythmic recurrence of a sound especially in nature
- //the steady cadence of the drums
- //Oars moved back and forth in smooth cadence.
- //He speaks with a soft Southern cadence.
NOTE: Since at least the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (1888), this word has been attributed to Italian, either directly or through French. However, attestations of French cadence and Italian cadenza are significantly later than the first occurrences of cadence in Middle English (ca. 1390) and early Scots (ca. 1420). (The word also occurs in Chaucer's House of Fame, composed ca. 1380 and attested earliest in a manuscript of ca. 1450.) In Medieval Latin cadentia appears in the approximate sense “verse rhythm” (pedum cadentia) in John of Garland's Parisiana poetria (composed ca. 1234).
Synonyms
- the recurrent pattern formed by a series of sounds having a regular rise and fall in intensity //the soothing cadence of the lecturer's voice nearly put me to sleep
Definition
- : the beat, time, or measure of rhythmical motion or activity //The drill sergeant counted cadence. //the steady cadence of the drums: a rhythmic sequence or flow of sounds in language //the grand cadence of his poetry: a regular and repeated pattern of activity //In addition to our weekly cadence, we take a step back once a quarter to think about our platform a little more strategically. — David Vandegrift //To meet its cadence of a launch every other week, SpaceX must build at least two of these each month. — Eric Berger //Then in the evening, it's off to the boxing gym or a sparring session for two to three more hours. In recent years, she's kept a cadence of two to four fights annually, her last being a loss for the WBC light middleweight world title in Poland in September. — Deanna Cioppa
- : a falling inflection of the voice: a concluding and usually falling strainspecifically : a musical chord sequence moving to a harmonic close or point of rest and giving the sense of harmonic completion
- : the modulated and rhythmic recurrence of a sound especially in nature
- //the steady cadence of the drums
- //Oars moved back and forth in smooth cadence.
- //He speaks with a soft Southern cadence.
NOTE: Since at least the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (1888), this word has been attributed to Italian, either directly or through French. However, attestations of French cadence and Italian cadenza are significantly later than the first occurrences of cadence in Middle English (ca. 1390) and early Scots (ca. 1420). (The word also occurs in Chaucer's House of Fame, composed ca. 1380 and attested earliest in a manuscript of ca. 1450.) In Medieval Latin cadentia appears in the approximate sense “verse rhythm” (pedum cadentia) in John of Garland's Parisiana poetria (composed ca. 1234).
Synonyms
- the recurrent pattern formed by a series of sounds having a regular rise and fall in intensity //the soothing cadence of the lecturer's voice nearly put me to sleep