Rhythm (Noun)
Meaning 1
Recurring at regular intervals.
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Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.
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- The heartbeat was steady, beating at a steady rhythm that indicated good health.
- The machine was emitting a constant humming noise that established a steady rhythm.
- The rhythm of the train wheels clicking on the tracks lulled her to sleep.
- The company pays its employees at the same rhythm every month, on the first Friday.
- The workers on the construction site fell into a steady rhythm of digging and hauling debris away.
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Meaning 2
The basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music; "the piece has a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat".
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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
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Meaning 3
An interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs; "the never-ending cycle of the seasons".
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Nouns denoting time and temporal relations.
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Meaning 4
The arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements; "the rhythm of Frost's poetry".
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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
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Meaning 5
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).
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Nouns denoting acts or actions.