Synonyms of the word

syncopation

• n. (music) The quality of a rhythm being somehow unexpected, in that it deviates from the strict succession…
• n. (phonology) The loss of sounds in the middle of a word.

articulation

• n. (countable or uncountable) A joint or the collection of joints at which something is articulated, or hinged,…
• n. (countable) A manner or method by which elements of a system are connected.
• n. (uncountable) The quality, clarity or sharpness of speech.
• n. (linguistics) The manner in which a phoneme is pronounced.
• n. (music, uncountable) The manner in which something is articulated (tongued, slurred or bowed).
• n. (accounting) The interrelation and congruence of the flow of data between financial statements of an entity,…

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.

music

• n. A sound, or the study of such sounds, organized in time.
• n. (figuratively) Any pleasing or interesting sounds.
• n. An art form, created by organizing of pitch, rhythm, and sounds made using musical instruments and sometimes…
• n. A guide to playing or singing a particular tune; sheet music.
• v. (transitive) To seduce or entice with music.

rhythm

• n. The variation of strong and weak elements (such as duration, accent) of sounds, notably in speech or music,…
• n. A specifically defined pattern of such variation.
• n. A flow, repetition or regularity.
• n. The tempo or speed of a beat, song or repetitive event.
• n. The musical instruments which provide rhythm (mainly; not or less melody) in a musical ensemble.
• n. A regular quantitative change in a variable (notably natural) process.
• n. Controlled repetition of a phrase, incident or other element as a stylistic figure in literature and other…

syncope

• n. A loss of consciousness when someone faints, a swoon.
• n. (prosody, phonology) The absence of a sound from the interior of a word, for example by changing cannot…
• n. A missed beat or off-beat stress in music resulting in syncopation.