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RHYTHM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Natural family planning in which ovulation is assumed to occur 14 days before the onset of a period (the fertile period would be assumed to extend from day 10 through day 18 of her cycle)
Synonyms:
calendar method; calendar method of birth control; rhythm; rhythm method; rhythm method of birth control
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("rhythm" is a kind of...):
natural family planning (any of several methods of family planning that do not involve sterilization or contraceptive devices or drugs; coitus is avoided during the fertile time of a woman's menstrual cycle)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Recurring at regular intervals
Synonyms:
regular recurrence; rhythm
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("rhythm" is a kind of...):
cyclicity; periodicity (the quality of recurring at regular intervals)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rhythm"):
cardiac rhythm; heart rhythm (the rhythm of a beating heart)
Derivation:
rhythmic; rhythmical (recurring with measured regularity)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements
Example:
the rhythm of Frost's poetry
Synonyms:
rhythm; speech rhythm
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("rhythm" is a kind of...):
guide; template; templet (a model or standard for making comparisons)
inflection; prosody (the patterns of stress and intonation in a language)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
Example:
the conductor set the beat
Synonyms:
beat; musical rhythm; rhythm
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("rhythm" is a kind of...):
musical time ((music) the beat of musical rhythm)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rhythm"):
backbeat (a loud steady beat)
downbeat (the first beat of a musical measure (as the conductor's arm moves downward))
offbeat; upbeat (an unaccented beat (especially the last beat of a measure))
syncopation (a musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat)
Sense 5
Meaning:
An interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs
Example:
the never-ending cycle of the seasons
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("rhythm" is a kind of...):
interval; time interval (a definite length of time marked off by two instants)
Meronyms (parts of "rhythm"):
phase; phase angle (a particular point in the time of a cycle; measured from some arbitrary zero and expressed as an angle)
Derivation:
rhythmic (recurring with measured regularity)
Context examples:
His uplifted hand descended, and thereafter rose and fell in a swift and steady rhythm.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
So how do plants coordinate their cellular rhythms?
(Plants can tell time even without a brain, University of Cambridge)
An arrhythmia is any disorder of your heart rate or rhythm.
(Pacemakers and Implantable Defibrillators, NIH)
This protein plays a role in circadian rhythms and transcriptional repression.
(Nuclear Receptor Subfamily 1 Group D Member 2, NCI Thesaurus)
My rhythm grew shorter and shorter.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
This allele, which encodes period circadian protein homolog 1, plays a role in the maintenance of circadian rhythm.
(PER1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
For a time each blow brought a yelp from him; but fear passed into terror, until finally his yelps were voiced in unbroken succession, unconnected with the rhythm of the punishment.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
As its soft rhythm died away, Holmes set to work upon the lower door.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
An electrocardiographic finding of an atrial rhythm which originates from the sinoatrial node that is considered normal for the population.
(Normal Sinus Rhythm, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
An electronic device that is implanted in the body to monitor heart rate and rhythm.
(Artificial pacemaker, NCI Dictionary)
