cadence

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ca·dence /ˈkeɪdəns/ noun [countableC]

1 SPEAK A LANGUAGEthe way someone’s voice rises and falls, especially when reading out loud 〔尤指大声朗读时音调的〕抑扬顿挫

the cadence of my mother’s voice

我母亲语调的抑扬顿挫

2 a regular repeated pattern of sounds or movements 节律，节拍，节奏

the Brazilian cadences of the music

这段音乐的巴西风格的节奏

3. technicalAPM a set of chords 结尾和弦；终止式

Examples from the Corpus

cadence• Above all, Plomer merely touches on the Elizabethan cadence and diction.• At first he did not recognize the tune, and then he caught its cadences.• Francie stopped playing in mid cadence.• The famous metallic voice with its slight Midlands cadences exercised its familiar thrill.• One imagines the cadences, the music and the language are unrivaled when spoken by the authors themselves.• We saturate babies in the cadences, sounds, rhythms, and purposes of spoken language.• The Marines, rifles on shoulders, marched in, matching the cadence of a distant pile driver.• She could imitate perfectly the cadence of my mother's voice.• the cadence and rhythm of poetry

Origin cadence

(1300-1400) Old French Old Italian cadenza, from cadere “to fall”, from Latin; → CADAVER

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Corpus

TOEFL BNC: 21748 COCA: 12193

cadence

Tone or quality of voice: break, cadence, croak...

Parts of pieces of music: accompaniment, arpeggio, breakbeat...