Synonyms of the word

cadence

• n. The act or state of declining or sinking.
• n. Balanced, rhythmic flow.
• n. The measure or beat of movement.
• n. The general inflection or modulation of the voice, or of any sound.
• n. (music) A progression of at least two chords which conclude a piece of music, section or musical phrases…
• n. (music) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may…
• n. (speech) A fall in inflection of a speaker’s voice, such as at the end of a sentence.
• n. (dance) A dance move which ends a phrase.
• n. (fencing) The rhythm and sequence of a series of actions.
• n. (running) The number of steps per minute.
• n. (cycling) The number of revolutions per minute of the cranks or pedals of a bicycle.
• n. (military) A chant that is sung by military personnel while running or marching; a jody call.
• n. (heraldry) cadency.
• n. (horse-riding) Harmony and proportion of movement, as in a well-managed horse.
• v. To give a cadence to.
• v. To give structure to.

beat

• n. A stroke; a blow.
• n. A pulsation or throb.
• n. A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is…
• n. A rhythm.
• n. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency.
• n. A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
• n. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
• n. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially.
• n. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
• n. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
• n. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
• n. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
• n. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
• n. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those…
• n. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
• v. (transitive) To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
• v. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
• v. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
• v. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
• v. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
• v. (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc…
• v. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
• v. (transitive, Britain, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price.
• v. (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
• v. To tread, as a path.
• v. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
• v. To be in agitation or doubt.
• v. To make a sound when struck.
• v. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
• v. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating…
• v. (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
• adj. (US slang) exhausted.
• adj. dilapidated, beat up.
• adj. (gay slang) fabulous.
• adj. (slang) boring.
• adj. (slang, of a person) ugly.
• n. A beatnik.

cadency

• n. Alternative form of cadence.
• n. (heraldry) Any systematic way of distinguishing similar coats of arms belonging to members of the same…

measure

• n. A prescribed quantity or extent.
• n. The act or result of measuring.
• n. Metrical rhythm.
• n. A course of action.
• v. To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
• v. To estimate the unit size of something.
• v. To judge, value, or appraise.
• v. To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
• v. (rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
• v. To adjust by a rule or standard.
• v. To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with out or off.

meter

• n. (always meter) A device that measures things.
• n. (always meter) A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.
• n. (always meter) (dated) One who metes or measures.
• n. (chiefly US, elsewhere metre) The base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), conceived…
• n. (chiefly US, elsewhere metre) (music) An increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number…
• n. (chiefly US, elsewhere metre, prosody) The rhythm pattern in a poem.
• n. (chiefly US, elsewhere metre) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order…
• n. (obsolete) A poem.
• v. to measure with a metering device.
• v. to imprint a postage mark with a postage meter.
• v. to regulate the flow of or to deliver in regulated amounts (usually of fluids but sometimes of other things…

metre

• n. The basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Système International d'Unités), equal…
• v. (Britain, rare) Alternative spelling of meter.
• n. The rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition.
• v. (poetry, music) To put into metrical form.

passage

• n. A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
• n. Part of a path or journey.
• n. The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.
• n. (art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
• n. A passageway or corridor.
• n. (caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
• n. (euphemistic) The vagina.
• n. The act of passing.
• v. (medicine) To pass a pathogen through a host or medium.
• v. (rare) To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross.
• n. (dressage) A movement in classical dressage, in which the horse performs a very collected, energetic,…
• v. (intransitive, dressage) To execute a passage movement.

prosody

• n. (linguistics) The study of rhythm, intonation, stress, and related attributes in speech.
• n. (poetry) The study of poetic meter; the patterns of sounds and rhythms in verse.

rhythmicity

• n. The quality or state of having a rhythm.