单词 | afterbeat |
释义 | afterbeatn. 1. Medicine. A beat of the heart or of the pulse following a main or normal beat; (in later use) spec. an extrasystole. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > vascular system > circulation > pulsation > heartbeat > [noun] > types of palpitation?a1425 panting1440 dunt1768 wallop1824 apex beat1847 afterbeat1853 impulse1873 extrasystole1900 sinus rhythm1911 afterpotential1930 afterload1941 preload1960 1853 W. Brinton tr. G. Valentin Text Bk. Physiol. xviii. 532 The systole of the ventricle then follows as an after-beat. 1871 Eng. Mech. 8 Dec. 303/1 It appears to me that the after-beat, as recorded by the sphygmograph is only due to the vibration of the long lever which writes the curve. 1891 W. Stirling tr. L. Landois Text-bk. Human Physiol. (ed. 4) I. 122 Sometimes during fever, especially when the temperature is high, a dicrotic pulse may be felt, each pulse-beat, as it were, being composed of two beats.., one beat being large and the other small, and more like an after-beat. 1910 J. Mackenzie Dis. Heart (ed. 2) xix. 164 So violent is the effect of this after-beat [sc. an extra-systole] that in neurotic persons it may cause a shock followed by a sense of great exhaustion. 1984 Amer. Jrnl. Cardiol. 54 6 a/1 Reentrant rhythms usually terminate abruptly on cessation of pacing, but they can also be followed by 1 or more afterbeats. 2. Music. a. An ending to a trill comprising two notes, the first being one step lower than the main note, the second being the main note itself. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > ornament > [noun] > trill > last two notes of afterbeat1890 1890 tr. L. Bussler Elements of Notation & Harmony 58 The trill begins upon the main tone, and ends with the After-beat. 1901 T. Baker tr. F. Kullak Beethoven's Piano-playing iii. 99 The after-beat of the trill is indicated by a 32d-note. 1956 Jrnl. Res. in Music Educ. 4 93/1 The ‘three note trill’ literally means a trill plus the two notes of the after-beat. 2003 R. Troeger Playing Bach on Keyboard ix. 180 An afterbeat or ‘suffix’ can be added by the player when it is not written in by the composer. b. An offbeat; an accentuated backbeat. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun] > beat > unaccented beat thesisa1398 anacrusis1763 arsis1775 upbeat1869 afterbeat1901 offbeat1901 1901 E. Smith & C. E. R. Mueller Second Bk. Vocal Music 128 The lines of each exercise should be practiced first together and then the lines containing the after beats should be sung separately. 1927 Melody Maker June 597/3 The rhythmic section should support with a ‘straight’ but well-accented ‘after-beat’ rhythm. 1927 Melody Maker Sept. 925/2 The stick taps out the second and fourth (or ‘after’) beats on the cymbal, thus accentuating these after-beats. 1989 Jrnl. Musicol. 7 199 The final accented syllable of a line falls on the downbeat, followed by the last syllable on an afterbeat. 1997 S. Barrow & P. Dalton Reggae i. 32/2 As the record fades saxophonists..join him, riffing emphatically with the guitarist on the afterbeat, and the characteristic trademark of ska is heard for the first time. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1853 |
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