What's the difference between cadence and snap?

Cadence


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or state of declining or sinking.
  • (n.) A fall of the voice in reading or speaking, especially at the end of a sentence.
  • (n.) A rhythmical modulation of the voice or of any sound; as, music of bells in cadence sweet.
  • (n.) Rhythmical flow of language, in prose or verse.
  • (n.) See Cadency.
  • (n.) Harmony and proportion in motions, as of a well-managed horse.
  • (n.) A uniform time and place in marching.
  • (n.) The close or fall of a strain; the point of rest, commonly reached by the immediate succession of the tonic to the dominant chord.
  • (n.) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy.
  • (v. t.) To regulate by musical measure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Degraded visual acuity had a significant effect on cadence, foot placement, and foot clearance, but visual surround conditions did not.
  • (2) step lengths, stride times, double-support times, cadence and walking speed.
  • (3) The ensemble electromyogram (EMG) patterns associated with different walking cadences were examined in 11 normal subjects.
  • (4) The breakthrough came when the brothers moved to Nashville in the mid-1950s and signed a recording contract with New York-based Cadence Records.
  • (5) One-way repeated-measures analyses of variance on the mean EMG amplitude in stance and in swing revealed significant changes with cadence (P less than 0.05) in all muscles examined.
  • (6) Competitive cyclists generally climb hills at a low cadence despite the recognized advantage in level cycling of high cadences.
  • (7) Cadence decreased in 7 cases, while gait speed increased in all cases.
  • (8) Temporal and distance gait factors (velocity, cadence and stride length) were significantly reduced in patients with diseased knees.
  • (9) Traumatic AK amputees ambulate with time-distance parameters of velocity, cadence, stride length and gait cycle which are all two standard deviations below normal.
  • (10) The purpose of this experiment was to quantify and analyse multijoint coordination of patients with Parkinson's disease (N = 5) and control subjects (N = 5) during forward and backward stepping motions executed at different cadences.
  • (11) The task was terminated when the subject fell four contractions behind the required cadence or failed to complete two successive contractions.
  • (12) But for the most part, when I watch these marches on snowy Polish streets, with the familiar cadences of their chants, and when I hear old Lech Wałęsa say that “patriots must unite” to get rid of PiS by unspecified “clever, attractive and peaceful” means, I laugh with one eye and weep with the other.
  • (13) The average child with spastic cerebral palsy was found to have a shorter stance phase than the normal, but the cadence, while more variable, was nearly the same as normal.
  • (14) Phases, vertical forces and differentials of the characteristic points in variable step lengths and cadences were studied in normal gaits and pathological gaits of patients with hip, knee or ankle disorders.
  • (15) No significant differences were found in velocity, cadence, gait-cycle duration, single-limb support, or swing-stance ratios in free and fast walking.
  • (16) Conventional designs of an above-knee prosthesis are based on mechanisms with mechanical properties (such as friction, spring and damping coefficients) that remain constant during changing cadence.
  • (17) The first aim was to investigate how cyclists orient forces applied by the feet to the pedals in response to varying power output and cadence demands, and the second was to assess whether competitive riders responded differently from recreational riders to such variations.
  • (18) Coupling between cardiac and locomotor rhythms has been identified while people walk, run, hop and cycle at cadences natural to them.
  • (19) A new technique for simultaneously recording continuous electrocardiographic (ECG) data and walking step rate (cadence) is described.
  • (20) Indeed, the outrage and umbrage – most of all, it seems, about Obama "cadence" – deflates as it is uttered.

Snap


Definition:

  • (n.) To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.
  • (n.) To strike, to hit, or to shut, with a sharp sound.
  • (n.) To bite or seize suddenly, especially with the teeth.
  • (n.) To break upon suddenly with sharp, angry words; to treat snappishly; -- usually with up.
  • (n.) To crack; to cause to make a sharp, cracking noise; as, to snap a whip.
  • (n.) To project with a snap.
  • (v. i.) To break short, or at once; to part asunder suddenly; as, a mast snaps; a needle snaps.
  • (v. i.) To give forth, or produce, a sharp, cracking noise; to crack; as, blazing firewood snaps.
  • (v. i.) To make an effort to bite; to aim to seize with the teeth; to catch eagerly (at anything); -- often with at; as, a dog snapsat a passenger; a fish snaps at the bait.
  • (v. i.) To utter sharp, harsh, angry words; -- often with at; as, to snap at a child.
  • (v. i.) To miss fire; as, the gun snapped.
  • (v. t.) A sudden breaking or rupture of any substance.
  • (v. t.) A sudden, eager bite; a sudden seizing, or effort to seize, as with the teeth.
  • (v. t.) A sudden, sharp motion or blow, as with the finger sprung from the thumb, or the thumb from the finger.
  • (v. t.) A sharp, abrupt sound, as that made by the crack of a whip; as, the snap of the trigger of a gun.
  • (v. t.) A greedy fellow.
  • (v. t.) That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement; hence, a bite, morsel, or fragment; a scrap.
  • (v. t.) A sudden severe interval or spell; -- applied to the weather; as, a cold snap.
  • (v. t.) A small catch or fastening held or closed by means of a spring, or one which closes with a snapping sound, as the catch of a bracelet, necklace, clasp of a book, etc.
  • (v. t.) A snap beetle.
  • (v. t.) A thin, crisp cake, usually small, and flavored with ginger; -- used chiefly in the plural.
  • (v. t.) Briskness; vigor; energy; decision.
  • (v. t.) Any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To evaluate the relationship between the motion pattern and degree of organic change of the anterior mitral leaflet (AML) and the features of the mitral component of the first heart sound (M1) or the opening snap (OS), 37 patients with mitral stenosis (MS) were studied by auscultation, phonocardiography and echocardiography.
  • (2) A letter Acosta received warned her of a Snap cut of $11 for each family member in November.
  • (3) The San Antonio Food Bank says donations are up 16% But because of the cuts to Snap the supplies disappear faster.
  • (4) Acquaintance with a teenaged girl of roughly qualifying age is not essential, but probably helpful, when it comes to appreciating the degree to which Uncle Rupert's views on women, as still reflected in Page 3 , have not progressed since his executives started perving over snaps of their favourite teens.
  • (5) It's easy to express rage over the Newtown shooting because so few of us bear any responsibility for it and - although we can take steps to minimize the impact and make similar attacks less likely - there is ultimately little we can do to stop psychotic individuals from snapping.
  • (6) The sensitivity and overall agreement of both the SNAP and Campyslide tests were 100% in comparison with standard culture and identification tests.
  • (7) Hours after the attack ended, US troops with sniffer dogs checked the building for undetonated explosives, as security officials snapped pictures of the bodies and discussed the support the fighters must have received.
  • (8) We replicated DNA fingerprints of snapping turtles (Chelydra serpentina) and hypervariable restriction fragments of red-winged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus) to estimate the between-blot and between-lane components of variance in molecular weights of restriction fragments.
  • (9) Prime minister Lee Hsien Loong called the snap election more than a year early in the hope of riding a wave of national pride following the country’s recent 50th anniversary.
  • (10) In superfused precontracted strips of rabbit aorta, methylene blue (MeB) or pyocyanin (Pyo, 1-hydroxy-5-methyl phenazinum betaine) at concentrations of 1-10 microM inhibited relaxations induced by endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF), glyceryl trinitrate (GTN), S-nitroso-N-acetyl-penicillamine (SNAP) or 3-morpholino-sydnonimine (SIN-1).
  • (11) You will have to offer leadership and a sense of belonging to the civil service's lowly clerks and frontline staff in the Department for Work and Pensions, struggling not just with Iain Duncan Smith's fantasies of benefit rationalisation, but sharp contractors snapping at their heels.
  • (12) Scotland’s politics must snap out of its tribalism and recover the conventional left-right dichotomy.
  • (13) 4 October 2009: George Papandreou becomes prime minister Papandreou's Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Pasok) party wins power after New Democracy calls a snap general election, asking the Greek people for a new mandate to tackle the looming financial crisis.
  • (14) At this point, you are well within your rights to snap back: "It's all right for you.
  • (15) In addition, we examined 31 archival in situ carcinomas, 15 snap-frozen invasive ductal carcinomas, primary cell cultures from three benign breast tissue samples, and breast carcinoma cell lines MDA-MB-231 and MDA-MB-468.
  • (16) Mike Hawes, SMMT chief executive, said buyers were snapping up "enticing deals on a wealth of advanced new products".
  • (17) There they discovered a little-known club called Amnesia and a DJ called Alfredo and instead of coming back with a few out-of-focus snaps, Paul Oakenfold, Johnny Walker, Danny Rampling and Nicky Holloway returned home exhausted but burning with a missionary zeal.
  • (18) Imperial Tobacco has become a major player in the US market after snapping up a raft of brands in a £4.2bn ($7bn) deal.
  • (19) The launch of Sky Atlantic follows the broadcaster's audacious £150m, five-year deal to snap up the exclusive UK TV rights to US cable channel HBO's entire archive, new HBO programming and a first-look deal on all co-productions.
  • (20) The SNAP was able to detect either 5 ng of C. jejuni DNA or 10(5) CFU of bacteria.