Crossword-Solution: METRONOME
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Metronome | 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| METRONOME | anagram | EMONORTEM, MONOMETER, MONOTREME |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with METRONOME (5)
The thump of the engines reverberated regularly like the strokes of a metronome beating the measure of the vast silence, the shadow of the western wall had fallen across the river, and the smoke pouring backwards from the funnel eddied down behind the ship, spread a thin dusky veil over the somber water, which, checked by the flood-tide, seemed to lie stagnant in the whole straight length of the reaches.
Meantime Hope gave her inevitable music-lesson, so absorbed in her own thoughts that it was all as mechanical as the metronome.
Beneath him he could hear sounds well known and full of charm, songs that escaped in the satisfaction of work accomplished, assembled laughter, the pianoforte lesson being given by Bonne Maman, the tic-tac of the metronome, all the delicious household stir that pleased his heart.
There's a sort of metronome inside us—wonderful, sell-adjusting little machine; most delicate bit of mechanism in the world—people call it conscience—that records the proper beat of our tempos.
They did this with the utmost gravity three times, and then embraced again, rocking on pivoted feet like a metronome.
Quotes with METRONOME (3)
Scattered among these things are reminders that sound once existed: a metronome, a drumming pad, a guitar pick, a trumpet mouthpiece, a music stand, a tuning fork, a block of rosin... The older instruments bear the marks of those who have already played them, the scuffs and bites and dents that are the mysterious scars of sound. In their midst the house hangs, tenuous and enveloping, a sounding board waiting to be struck.
I have spent these last two days in concentrated introspection," said Cutie, "and the results have been most interesting. I began at the one sure assumption I felt permitted to make. I, myself, exist, because I think-"Powell groaned, "Oh, Jupiter, a robot Descartes!""Who's Descartes?" demanded Donovan. "Listen, do we have to sit here and listen to this metal maniac-""Keep quiet, Mike!" Cutie continued imperturbably, "And the question that immediately arose was: Just what is t…
I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 24 times in crossword archives (1960–2023).