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Definitions for cadence:

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Cadence \Ca"dence\, v. t. To regulate by musical measure. [1913 Webster] These parting numbers, cadenced by my grief. --Philips. [1913 Webster]

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
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]

WordNet (r) 2.0 :
cadence n 1: (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse [syn: meter, metre, measure, beat] 2: the close of a musical section 3: a recurrent rhythmical series [syn: cadency]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
164 Moby Thesaurus words for "cadence": Alexandrine, accent, accentuation, acciaccatura, 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

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