different between cadence vs posture
cadence
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)
- The act or state of declining or sinking.
- Balanced, rhythmic flow.
- The measure or beat of movement.
- The general inflection or modulation of the voice, or of any sound.
- (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.
- (music) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy.
- (speech) A fall in inflection of a speaker’s voice, such as at the end of a sentence.
- (dance) A dance move which ends a phrase.
- The cadence in a galliard step refers to the final leap in a cinquepace sequence.
- (fencing) The rhythm and sequence of a series of actions.
- (running) The number of steps per minute.
- (cycling) The number of revolutions per minute of the cranks or pedals of a bicycle.
- (military) A chant that is sung by military personnel while running or marching; a jody call.
- (heraldry) cadency
- (horse-riding) Harmony and proportion of movement, as in a well-managed horse.
- (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)
- To give a cadence to.
- 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)
- cadence
Derived terms
- cadencer
Etymology 2
Verb
cadence
- first-person singular present indicative of cadencer
- third-person singular present indicative of cadencer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of cadencer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of cadencer
- second-person singular imperative of cadencer
Further reading
- “cadence” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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posture
English
Etymology
From French, from Italian postura, from Latin posit?ra (“position, situation”)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p?st??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p??st??/
Noun
posture (countable and uncountable, plural postures)
- The way a person holds and positions their body.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus
- As if that whatsoever god who leads him / Were slily crept into his human powers, / And gave him graceful posture.
- 1689 (or earlier), Aphra Behn, Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister
- […] walking in a most dejected posture, without a band, unbraced, his arms a-cross his open breast, and his eyes bent to the floor;
- 1895, Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
- Rise, sir, from this semi-recumbent posture. It is most indecorous.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus
- A situation or condition.
- 1905, David Graham Phillips, The Deluge
- Even as I was reading these fables of my millions, there lay on the desk before me a statement of the exact posture of my affairs […]
- 1910, H.G. Wells, The History of Mr Polly
- Uncle Jim stopped amazed. His brain did not instantly rise to the new posture of things.
- 1905, David Graham Phillips, The Deluge
- One's attitude or the social or political position one takes towards an issue or another person.
- 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
- ...that is, their Forts, Garrisons, and Guns upon the Frontiers of their Kingdomes; and continuall Spyes upon their neighbours; which is a posture of War.
- 1912, G.K. Chesterton, A Miscellany of Men
- But it is not true, no sane person can call it true, that man as a whole in his general attitude towards the world, in his posture towards death or green fields, towards the weather or the baby, will be wise to cultivate dissatisfaction.
- 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
- (rare) The position of someone or something relative to another; position; situation.
- 1661, Thomas Salusbury (translator), Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World
- The Moon beheld in any posture, in respect of the Sun and us, sheweth us its superficies ... always equally clear.
- As for the guides, they were debarred from the pleasure of discourse, the one being placed in the van, and the other obliged to bring up the rear. / In this posture they travelled many hours, till they came into a wide and well-beaten road […]
- 1661, Thomas Salusbury (translator), Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World
Translations
Verb
posture (third-person singular simple present postures, present participle posturing, simple past and past participle postured)
- (intransitive) to put one's body into a posture or series of postures, especially hoping that one will be noticed and admired
- (intransitive) to pretend to have an opinion or a conviction
- (transitive) To place in a particular position or attitude; to pose.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Howell to this entry?)
Translations
Anagrams
- -pterous, Proteus, Puertos, Stroupe, Troupes, petrous, pourest, pouters, proteus, septuor, spouter, store up, troupes
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?s.ty?/
Noun
posture f (plural postures)
- posture, attitude
- conduct, comportment
Descendants
- ? Romanian: postur?
Italian
Noun
posture f
- plural of postura
Anagrams
- sputerò, stupore
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