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Rhythm

In the widest sense, a dividing into short portions by a regular succession of motions, impulses, sounds, accents, etc., producing an agreeable effect, as in music poetry, the dance, or the like.

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Guide 76% connected

The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder.

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Inflection 76% connected

The act of inflecting, or the state of being inflected.

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Interval 76% connected

A space between things; a void space intervening between any two objects; as, an interval between two houses or hills.

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Periodicity 76% connected

The quality or state of being periodical, or regularly recurrent; as, the periodicity in the vital phenomena of plants.

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Prosody 76% connected

That part of grammar which treats of the quantity of syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical composition.

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Template 76% connected

Same as Templet.

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Templet 76% connected

A gauge, pattern, or mold, commonly a thin plate or board, used as a guide to the form of the work to be executed; as, a mason's or a wheelwright's t…

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Syncopation 76% connected

The act of syncopating; the contraction of a word by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; syncope.

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Beat 74% connected

of Beat

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Beat 74% connected

of Beat

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Drum 74% connected

An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with…

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Drum 74% connected

An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with…

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Rhythmical 74% connected

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, rhythm

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Rhythmical 74% connected

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, rhythm

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Component part 1

Phase 70% connected

That which is exhibited to the eye; the appearance which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same o…

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Beat 92% connected

of Beat

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Cycle 92% connected

An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Round 92% connected

To whisper.

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