metronome

«metronome» in Mova's school dictionary: a device that ticks or clicks at a steady speed to help… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a metronome, metronomes)

meaning for a pupil

A metronome is a device that ticks or clicks at a steady speed to help musicians keep time. tree →

sense in the lessons

Met in music lessons; also used to describe something very regular («ticking like a metronome»).

examples

• My piano teacher sets the metronome to 80 beats a minute. tree →
• The metronome clicked steadily. tree →
• Practise with a metronome to keep a steady beat. tree →
• The old metronome has a swinging arm. tree →
• There is a metronome app on my phone. tree →
• His running steps were as regular as a metronome. tree →

note

Plural: metronomes. Its speed is measured in beats per minute (bpm). In a maths problem, at 60 bpm the metronome clicks once each second.

In the corpora

• A metronome is a ticking machine or app that keeps a steady beat; groups often rush when they get excited.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «metronome» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.