rhythm /ˈɹɪð.əm/noun 8verb 1forms 3 noun8 •the way loud and soft, long and short sounds follow one another as music or speech goes onDance to the rhythm of the music.The audience clapped in rhythm as I sang. •A specifically defined pattern of such variation.Most dances have a rhythm as distinctive as the Iambic verse in poetry •A flow, repetition or regularity.Once you get the rhythm of it, the job will become easy. •A regular quantitative change in a variable (notably natural) process.The rhythm of the seasons dominates agriculture as well as wildlife •Controlled repetition of a phrase, incident or other element as a stylistic figure in literature and other narrative arts; the effect it creates.The running gag is a popular rhythm in motion pictures and theater comedy •A person's natural feeling for rhythm.That girl's got rhythm, watch her dance! •The tempo or speed of a beat, song or repetitive event.We walked with a quick, even rhythm. •The musical instruments which provide rhythm (mainly; not or less melody) in a musical ensemble.The Baroque term basso continuo is virtually equivalent to rhythm verb1 •To impart a (particular) rhythm to.The pamphlet, writes Muray, 'is the supremely affirmative form in which nothing can be turned around, rhythmed or played with in synonyms and rhymes'. — 1987 formsrhythmed · rhythming · rhythms
