different between cadence vs metre

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French cadence, from Italian cadenza, from Latin *cadentia, form of cad?ns, form of cad? (“I fall, I cease”), from Proto-Italic *kad?, from Proto-Indo-European *?ad- (“to fall”). Doublet of cadenza and chance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ke?.dn?s/

Noun

cadence (countable and uncountable, plural cadences)

1. The act or state of declining or sinking.
2. Balanced, rhythmic flow.
3. The measure or beat of movement.
4. The general inflection or modulation of the voice, or of any sound.
5. (music) A progression of at least two chords which conclude a piece of music, section or musical phrases within it. Sometimes referred to analogously as musical punctuation.
6. (music) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy.
7. (speech) A fall in inflection of a speaker’s voice, such as at the end of a sentence.
8. (dance) A dance move which ends a phrase.

   The cadence in a galliard step refers to the final leap in a cinquepace sequence.

9. (fencing) The rhythm and sequence of a series of actions.
10. (running) The number of steps per minute.
11. (cycling) The number of revolutions per minute of the cranks or pedals of a bicycle.
12. (military) A chant that is sung by military personnel while running or marching; a jody call.
13. (heraldry) cadency
14. (horse-riding) Harmony and proportion of movement, as in a well-managed horse.
15. (software engineering) The frequency of regular product releases.

Synonyms

• (musical conclusion): clausula

Derived terms

Related terms

• cadaver

Translations

See also

• Tierce de Picardie

Verb

cadence (third-person singular simple present cadences, present participle cadencing, simple past and past participle cadenced)

1. To give a cadence to.
2. To give structure to.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.d??s/

Etymology 1

From Middle French cadence, borrowed from Italian cadenza. Doublet of chance.

Noun

cadence f (plural cadences)

1. cadence

Derived terms

• cadencer

Etymology 2

Verb

cadence

1. first-person singular present indicative of cadencer
2. third-person singular present indicative of cadencer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cadencer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of cadencer
5. second-person singular imperative of cadencer

Further reading

• “cadence” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Alternative forms

• meter

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mi?t?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?mi?t??/, [?mi???]
• Hyphenation: me?tre
• Rhymes: -i?t?(r)

Etymology 1

From French mètre, from Ancient Greek ?????? (métron, “measure, rule, length, size, poetic metre”). Doublet of metron.

Noun

metre (plural metres)

1. The basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Système International d'Unités), equal to the distance travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299 792 458 seconds. The metre is equal to 39+⁴⁷?₁₂₇ (approximately 39.37) imperial inches.
   • 1797, The Monthly magazine and British register, No. 3

     The measures of length above the metre are ten times ... greater than the metre.

   • 1873, The Young Englishwoman, April

     A dress length of 8 metres of the best quality costs 58 francs.

   • 1928, The Observer, April 15

     The 12-metre yachts ... can be sailed efficiently with four paid hands.

Usage notes

• This, rather than meter, is the spelling adopted by both the International Bureau of Weights and Measures and the International Organization for Standardization in their English language texts. However the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, in accordance with the United States Government Printing Office Style Manual, has chosen to use meter.

Synonyms

• m

Derived terms

(Metric scale)

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: mita
• ? Burmese: ???? (mita)
• ? Chinese: ?? (m?t?, m?tú)
• ? Japanese: ???? (m?t?)
• ? Korean: ?? (miteo) (South Korea), ?? (meteo) (North Korea, China)
• ? Maori: mita
• ? Swahili: mita

Translations

See also

• Appendix on SI Units

References

“metre” in the Collins English Dictionary

Further reading

• SI prefixes
• International Bureau of Weights and Measures

Verb

metre (third-person singular simple present metres, present participle metring, simple past and past participle metred)

1. (Britain, rare) Alternative spelling of meter

Usage notes

The standard spelling of the verb meaning to measure is meter throughout the English-speaking world. The use of the spelling metre for this sense (outside music and poetry) is possibly a misspelling.

Etymology 2

From Old English, from Latin metrum, from Ancient Greek See #Etymology 1

Noun

metre (plural metres) (Britain, Canada)

1. The rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition.

Translations

Verb

metre (third-person singular simple present metres, present participle metring, simple past and past participle metred)

1. (poetry, music) To put into metrical form.

See also

• metronome
• metric
• Wikipedia article: metre (poetry)

Anagrams

• -meter, -treme, Emert, meter, remet, retem

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?m?.t??/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?m?.t??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?me.t?e/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French mètre.

Noun

metre m (plural metres)

1. metre, meter (unit of measure, 100 cm)

Etymology 2

From Old Occitan metre, from Latin mittere, present active infinitive of mitt?. Compare Occitan metre, French mettre, Spanish meter.

Verb

metre (first-person singular present meto, past participle mes)

1. to put, to place

   Synonym: posar

2. to set

Conjugation

Related terms

Further reading

• “metre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “metre” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “metre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “metre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan metre, from Latin mittere, present active infinitive of mitt?. Attested from the 12th century.

Pronunciation

Verb

metre

1. (transitive) to put, to place

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• mesa

References

Old French

Etymology

From Latin mittere, present active infinitive of mitt?.

Verb

metre

1. to put, to place

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants

• Middle French: mettre, mectre, metre
  • French: mettre
• Norman: maette (Guernsey), mettre (Jersey)

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French mètre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?t??/

Noun

metre (definite accusative metreyi, plural metreler)

1. metre, meter (unit of measure, 100 cm)
2. rule, folding rule