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rhythm is a noun:
- The variation of strong and weak elements (such as duration, accent) of sounds, notably in speech or music, over time; a beat or meter.
"Dance to the rhythm of the music." - 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." - The tempo or speed of a beat, song or repetetive 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" - A regular quantitative change in a variable (notably natural) process
"The rhythm of the seasons dominates agriculture as well as wildlife" - Controled 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"
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is rhythm?
- Noun usage: Dance to the rhythm of the music.
- Noun usage: Most dances have a rhythm as distinctive as the Iambic verse in poetry
- Noun usage: Once you get the rhythm of it, the job will become easy.
- Noun usage: We walked with a quick, even rhythm.
- Noun usage: The Baroque term basso continuo is virtually equivalent to rhythm
- Noun usage: The rhythm of the seasons dominates agriculture as well as wildlife
- Noun usage: The running gag is a popular rhythm in motion pictures and theater comedy
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of rhythm are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of rhythm, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
