Rhythm

Noun

 * 1) The variation of strong and weak elements (such as duration, accent) of sounds, notably in speech or music, over time; a beat or meter.
 * 2) A specifically defined pattern of such variation
 * 3) A flow, repetition or regularity.
 * 4) The tempo or speed of a beat, song or repetitive event.
 * 5) The musical instruments which provide rhythm (mainly; not or less melody) in a musical ensemble
 * 6) A regular quantitative change in a variable (notably natural) process
 * 7) Controlled repetition of a phrase, incident or other element as a stylistic figure in literature and other narrative arts; the effect it creates

Adjectives for Rhythm
seductive; intriguing; wailing; sensuous; fluctuating; mighty; rowdy; dull; monotonous; incisive; abrupt; regulated; insinuating; characteristic; maddening; graceful; perfect; rustic; vehement; whirring; exquisite; maudlin; tragic; jarring; primal; natural; pulsating; throbbing; harmonious; blithe; tantalizing; tenderest; doggerel; accelerated; settled; trotting; vibrating; visual;

Verbs for Rhythm
abuse—; accelerate—; accent—; attune to—; break—; dash into—; depend on—; derive—; determine—; lose—; measure—; regulate—; sing in—; set to—; stress—; sway to—; "swing" to—; synchronize—; —charms; —descends ; —flows ; —harmonizes; —persists; —reigns.

Thesaurus
pulse, pyrrhic, quantity, rat-a-tat, rataplan, reappearance, recurrence, regular wave motion, reoccurrence, return, rhyme, rhythmic pattern, rhythmical stress, seasonality, secondary stress, spondee, sprung rhythm, staccato, stress, stress accent, stress pattern, sweetness, swing, symmetry, syzygy, tempo, tertiary stress, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, thesis, throb, throbbing, time, timing, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee, undulation, upbeat, weak stress, Alexandrine, accent, accentuation, alternation, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, anapest, antispast, arrhythmia, arsis, bacchius, balance, beat, beating, beauty, cadence, cadency, caesura, catalexis, chloriamb, chloriambus, colon, concinnity, counterpoint, cretic, cyclicalness, dactyl, dactylic hexameter, diaeresis, dimeter, dipody, dochmiac, downbeat, drumming, elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, emphasis, epitrite, equilibrium, euphony, feminine caesura, flutter, foot, harmony, heartbeat, heartthrob, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, intermittence, intermittency, ionic, jingle, level of stress, lilt, masculine caesura, measure, measuredness, meter, metrical accent, metrical foot, metrical group, metrical unit, metrics, metron, molossus, mora, movement, number, numbers, order, orderedness, oscillation, paeon, palpitation, pendulum motion, pentameter, pentapody, period, periodicalness, periodicity, piston motion, pitapat, pitter-patter, primary stress, proceleusmatic, proportion, prosodics, prosody, pulsation,

Etymology
First coined 1557, from rhythmus: from  ῥυθμός: < ῥέω:.

Synonyms

 * meter / metre
 * prosody
 * (instruments providing rhythm) rhythm section

Derived terms

 * rhythm band
 * rhythm box
 * rhythmic
 * rhythmical
 * rhythm stick
 * rhythm method

Related terms

 * rhythmicity
 * rhythmics
 * rhythmist
 * rhythmize

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