What's the difference between metronome and metronomy?
Metronome
Definition:
(n.) An instrument consisting of a short pendulum with a sliding weight. It is set in motion by clockwork, and serves to measure time in music.
Example Sentences:
(1) "You wouldn't conceive such random movements could produce such metronomic sounds: you get this der-der-der-der-der-errrr, der-der-der-der-der-errrr.
(2) As a way of learning about the motor control of chewing, we studied how well a subject could voluntarily chew in time with a metronome and defined the changes in the spatial and temporal aspects of the chewing pattern with changes in chewing rate.
(3) Dolin's dog Ger was trained to differentiate between metronomic frequencies of 60 (positive) and 120 (negative) per minute, its conditioned salivary reaction to the positive stimulus was attenuated immediately after a test on a more positive stimulus (30 per minute) and that to the negative stimulus was augmented immediately after a test on a more negative stimulus (200 per minute).
(4) Stuttering duration change scores were related only for the time-out and DAF, and metronome and DAF conditions.
(5) Movements of the head were voluntary and paced by a metronome at either 0.5 or 2.0 Hz during the 4 min adaptation period.
(6) On the 4th day all animals were exposed to the metronome alone, following which blood samples were drawn.
(7) When the diva’s metronomic backhand malfunctioned and the last point of the set strayed wide, the cheers for the French-speaking Canadian sounded genuine enough.
(8) Metronome breathing altered spectral content within subjects and produced age-related differences in responses to postural maneuvers not seen during spontaneous breathing.
(9) Anderson, meanwhile, continued to attack with metronomic accuracy.
(10) Boys with reading disability were asked to tap two mechanical keys in time to the beat of a metronome, with left and right hand alone, and with alternating hands.
(11) It was found that the stimulus supplied by an auditory metronome did not significantly improve the phonemic accuracy of these subjects.
(12) Temporal information processing was studied in humans attempting to tap a key in synchrony with a metronome whose base period was subjected to subliminal random changes.
(13) Timing measures were obtained from subjects instructed to tap a Morse key in synchrony with a metronome which marked a timing pattern consisting of alternating blocks of intervals of imperceptibly different duration.
(14) Missing were several key components of their qualifying campaign; regular goalkeeper Keylor Navas, prolific MLS striker Alvaro Saborio and, most notably, the metronomic Fulham midfielder Bryan Ruiz.
(15) Plantar pressure data were acquired from ten able-bodied subjects during four minutes of continuous shuffling and walking at a metronome-controlled cadence.
(16) Heart rate variation was studied in 56 healthy subjects from ages 20-81 while supine and standing during spontaneous and metronome breathing.
(17) Two prelingually deaf and two hearing speakers produced two different strings of alternating heterogeneous monosyllables as though speaking in time with a metronome (the so-called P-center task).
(18) Metronome breathing decreased total spectral content (p less than .001) but increased high frequency content, especially in younger subjects (p less than .03).
(19) The coupled frequency omega c was varied by a metronome, and scaled to the eigenfrequency omega v of the coupled system; K was assumed to vary inversely with omega c. The results indicate that: (1) delta omega and K contribute multiplicatively to phi; (2) phi = 0 or phi = pi regardless of K when delta omega = 0; (3) phi approximately 0 or phi approximately pi regardless of delta omega when K is large (relative to delta omega); (4) results (1) to (3) hold identically for both in phase and antiphase coordination.
(20) the click of a metronome) spaced at regular intervals (e.g.
Metronomy
Definition:
(n.) Measurement of time by an instrument.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the one hand, he notes, Metronomy played some US arena gigs supporting Coldplay, which came as something of a surprise, given that Mount had publicly expressed his dislike of Coldplay's music ("I think we have to appreciate that Chris and the boys, they've got bigger fish to fry than trawling through our old interviews," he says now), but nevertheless gave Mount an opportunity to watch one of the biggest bands in the world up close.
(2) Watch Metronomy's video for I'm Aquarius here People think Love Letters is going to be a big hit but Mount seems blithely indifferent to its commercial chances.
(3) And so Archer found her way into the lyrics of Metronomy's fourth album, Love Letters, a record that carries a certain degree of expectation.
(4) In a vegetarian restaurant in Brighton, Metronomy's Joseph Mount is telling me about the moment he first became aware of his own mortality.
(5) By then, Metronomy had developed their own stage show, involving synchronised dancing and clothes decorated with flashing LED lights.
(6) The 85-year-old singer and songwriter will join Metronomy and London Grammar at the top of a bill that also includes Jessie Ware, Connan Mockasin, Mount Kimbie and Sam Smith.
(7) Metronomy began life as a largely instrumental electronic act ("I was listening to a lot of very up-its-own-arse intelligent dance music that wasn't even intelligent and wasn't really dance music, but I decided I was going to be a nerd about it"), before being lumped in with the Klaxons as part of the short-lived east London " nu rave " scene.
(8) But then again, Metronomy's fans have presumably got used to Mount taking sudden left turns: you could never accuse him of having stuck doggedly to a musical blueprint.
(9) But then, he says, Metronomy's recent success has caused him to revise that kind of thinking.
(10) He says he always thinks every Metronomy album is going to be their last.
(11) Instead, Metronomy decamped to East London's famously retro Toe Rag Studios, famed for turning out garage rock records – not least the White Stripes' Elephant – and whose owner, Liam Watson, seemed initially nonplussed by Mount turning up with synthesisers and drum machines: "He was taking us around sort of saying: 'You're going to hate it here.'"