noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
rhythm and blues
rhythm method
rhythm section
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
circadian
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The timeslip had upset my circadian rhythms .
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Body rhythm is known as the inner clock or circadian rhythm.
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The more regular your schedule, the easier it is to retrain your circadian rhythm in a twenty-four-hour time period.
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To understand how exercise affects sleep, you must understand the circadian rhythm of the human body.
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When you remain awake all night, your circadian rhythm does not cease.
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The circadian rhythm you feel as wakefulness and sleepiness is the result of internal body changes.
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BioBrite is the kind of place where they talk a lot about circadian rhythms and the physiological effects of bright light.
daily
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We are all aware to some degree of the daily rhythms of nature around us.
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After menopause theses daily rhythms decline in amplitude towards zero.
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The rat does not immediately adjust its daily rhythm to the melatonin.
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Rhythms in old age With increasing age, our daily rhythms begin to change.
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The daily rhythm was well marked.
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In some children, the development of daily rhythms is poor.
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What happens to the daily rhythms under such circumstances?
different
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As the different rhythms of these two-note pulses were combined they formed a simple moving pattern of sound.
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Under normal circumstances these different rhythms give the same information about external time; that is, they reinforce one another.
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It isn't the actual words you react to, but the different rhythm .
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The body that had been racked with sobbing was now pressing into him and moving in an altogether different rhythm .
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And there are different rhythms in this process.
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Blood began to splurge out and her screams pounded Jezrael with a different rhythm .
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Far down the mountain, the peloton and its stragglers have a different rhythm .
natural
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The natural rhythm of speech is already familiar.
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The question of natural rhythms is more than just an individual concern, however.
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Aesop must have been a keen observer of natural animal rhythms .
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If he writes slowly and with extreme care, he forsakes natural rhythm and ease of style.
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They had fallen into a curious natural rhythm , even as the child grew older.
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Allow your natural rhythm to come to the fore.
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She flexed herself, she breathed spasmodically as if to confuse the natural rhythms of her body.
normal
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Amplified vibration can reinforce the normal rhythm of speech and can greatly assist forming the right habits.
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The tiny device shocks the heart into normal rhythm when it beats too fast.
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Reflectiveness should be seen as natural and part of the normal rhythm of daily life.
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Sleeping tablets are not always the solution as they upset the normal rhythm of sleep and people may become dependent upon them.
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After the siesta, shops began to open and normal rhythms were resumed.
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The potential to develop normal rhythms is present in us all and is part of our genetic make-up.
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The sudden unnatural gesture destroyed the normal speech rhythm .
regular
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The diary below is one way to establish how regular are the rhythms in your life-style and environment.
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It was in Vegas that Sinatra decided to book Norvo as his opening act and as his regular rhythm section.
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This time it was louder, closer, and of a more discernible and fervent, regular rhythm .
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Seasonal rhythms are generally much more regular than cyclical rhythms and so can be measured and forecasted more accurately.
slow
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And suddenly, in the midst of the turmoil, everything steadied and locked into a slow relentless rhythm .
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Gently she improvised a slow sensuous rhythm , sealing bottom lips with ecstasy.
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The slow train's rhythm sending me out.
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With a yet slower rhythm than the polar ice, the tides of civilization ebbed and flowed across the galaxy.
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Under it, the blade tips of a massive propeller broke the surface in a hypnotic slow rhythm .
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On a different level from the first there can be distinguished another history, this time with slow but perceptible rhythms .
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The slow , steady rhythm was pulsing in her veins.
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That indeed is the principle of the lullaby, whose slow rhythm and repeated words and phrases promote a state of drowsiness.
steady
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The steady rhythm of numbers is immensely calming.
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The swamp cooler beats a steady rhythm , trying its best to tame the stuffy air.
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For a while this procedure worked quite well, and we began to develop a steady rhythm .
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Her heart faltered, then resumed its steady rhythm .
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The slow, steady rhythm was pulsing in her veins.
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I listened to my feet making a steady rhythm on the paved stones, as regular as a pulse beat.
■ NOUN
guitar
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I'd like to be a rhythm guitar player in a band!
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Then a nervously repetitious rhythm guitar pattern is added, just before the drums kick in with a churning fatback pattern.
section
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Try I fall in love too easily for the young Marsalis's strong sound gelling with the experience of the rhythm section .
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The electric bass for ever altered the relationship between the rhythm section , the horns, and other melodic instruments.
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The rhythm section provided a perfect cushion for the soloists, springy and supportive but never obtrusive.
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It was in Vegas that Sinatra decided to book Norvo as his opening act and as his regular rhythm section .
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It also saw Joyce and Rourke emerging as a formidable rhythm section .
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The rhythm Section became the stars.
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The rhythm section of these hits then began cutting behind the poorly shouted vocals of a white keyboardist named Harry Casey.
■ VERB
beat
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Her pounding boots beat out the rhythm of a wild Slavonic stomp.
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The swamp cooler beats a steady rhythm , trying its best to tame the stuffy air.
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So the farrier and the handler both beat the same rhythm at the same time on different parts of the horse.
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Drums beat to mark the rhythm of the work.
break
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He can break up the rhythm with the deceptive powers of a confidence trickster and made something happen from seemingly stagnant positions.
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In fact, these words break the sentence rhythm , placing emphasis on the words that follow.
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He glanced at the clock and nodded his approval without breaking the rhythm created by his fingers on the strings.
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Playing of a Monday at an odd hour can break their rhythm .
establish
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Ideally you should vary your sentence length, establishing a rhythm for your writing.
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Kaufman acknowledged the difficulty of establishing any sort of rhythm .
find
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Instead they need to find out the rhythms of speech which make the music of the verse work in dramatic form.
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We never found our rhythm that we need in order to open up a game.
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Leicester took a little time to find a similar rhythm .
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Bailey converted again, with a twisting, spinning six-footer, and the Bruins had finally found some offensive rhythm .
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Many find the rhythm of a larger horse more comfortable but turn to page 31 to see if you can be converted!
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What matters is the sweet soreness in legs that seem to have found a rhythm again.
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After a few false starts he found his rhythm and everyone began to clap in time.
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But around mid-December, MacLean found his rhythm and became almost unstoppable.
keep
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He's obviously doing it to keep a rhythm going and it certainly seems to work.
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No doubt we both worked quickly and didn't keep our rhythm uniform.
move
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It is brief and fast: it moves to the rhythms of a single drama, and the pace is perfectly judged.
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It was a world that moved to an ecclesial rhythm as regular and pervasive as the sound of the bells.
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The booming Golden State, no longer moving to rural rhythms , needed constant attention from lawmakers armed with expertise.
play
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I would always encourage students to carry on playing with these rhythms and curves that the full shape of these ducks demand.
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He pulled me close to him and began playing a rhythm on his face.
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Note how the right hand plays the rhythm and then its exact mirror in the next bar.
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Meanwhile the left hand plays the same rhythms in the opposite order.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
brass/rhythm/woodwind/string etc section
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A brass section blares on trumpet, tenor saxophone and bass sax.
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It was in Vegas that Sinatra decided to book Norvo as his opening act and as his regular rhythm section .
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Now, drummers like Roy Haynes or Elvin Jones could be heard and studied, not buried in big-band rhythm sections .
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The rhythm Section became the stars.
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The rhythm section provided a perfect cushion for the soloists, springy and supportive but never obtrusive.
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The string section repeatedly cut through his fraught baritone with great sheets of emotional counterpoint.
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Try I fall in love too easily for the young Marsalis's strong sound gelling with the experience of the rhythm section .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I was finally fitting in with the rhythm of their household.
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the rhythm of the music
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The air conditioner beat a steady rhythm .
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The band's music is known for its fiery Latin rhythms.
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You need to feel the rhythm of the music in order to dance properly.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An awkward gap opened up in the otherwise little bit of rhythm just starting to flow between them.
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For the second show their Captain stood by the pianist and rapped out the rhythm .
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He grabbed dance by the arm and led it into the world of city rhythms, wise guys and lovers.
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He should be encouraged to stretch down on to the bit without losing balance or rhythm .
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I hear Stravinsky, Walton, Hindemith and a couple of other guys who really understood rhythm .
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Marriner will ensure that the words are clearly heard, the instrumental parts all count and that the rhythms are springy.
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Without a sense of rhythm our sense of time is devoid of landmarks.