Meaning of dance | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction.
   countable, uncountable
2. A surname
3. A normally horizontal stripe called a fess that has been modified to zig-zag across the center of a coat of arms from dexter to sinister.
4. first-person singular preterite indicative of bailar
5. A surname.
6. A social gathering where dancing is the main activity.
   countable, uncountable
7. To attend to or try to please (someone) with eagerness or obsequiousness.
8. The art, profession, and study of dancing.
   uncountable
9. A party or gathering for dancing:ball.
10. A genre of modern music characterised by sampled beats, repetitive rhythms and few lyrics.
    uncountable
11. a ballet dancer. danser راقِص танцьор bailarino tanečník der/die Tänzer(in) danser; -danser χορευτήςbailarín, bailaor tantsija رقاص؛ رقصنده tanssija danseur/-euse רקדן नृत्यांगना, नाचने वाला plesač, plesačica táncos penari dansari ballerino, danzatore 踊り手 댄서 šokėjas dejotājs penari danserdansertancerz رقاصه bailarino dansator; balerin балерина tanečník, -ica plesalec plesač dansare, dansör, dansös นักเต้นรำ dansör, dansçı 舞者 танцюрист, танцівник رقاص یا رقاصہ diễn viên múa 舞蹈演员
12. A piece of music with a particular dance rhythm.
    countable, uncountable
13. She likes dancing; (also adjective) dancing shoes. dans رَقْص танцуване de dança tančení; taneční das Tanzen dans; danse- χορόςdanza tantsimine, tantsu- رقص tanssiminen la danse, de danse רקוד, ריקוד नाच-गाना plesanje tánc menari dans ballo; di/da ballo 踊り 춤추기 šokimas dejošana; dejas menari het dansen; dans- dans; danse-taniec نڅا de dança dans; de dans танцы tancovanie; tanečný plesanje; plesni ples dans การเต้นรำ dans 跳舞，跳舞用的 танці رقص کرنے کا عمل khiêu vũ 跳舞，跳舞用的
    also adjective
14. A battle of wits, especially one commonly fought between two rivals.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
15. To move rhythmically usually to music, using prescribed or improvised steps and gestures.
16. Any strenuous or difficult movement, action, or task.
    countable, dated, figuratively, uncountable
17. Zoology To perform a specialized set of movements to communicate chiefly with other members of the same species.
    Zoology
18. A repetitive movement used in communication between worker honey bees.
    countable, uncountable
19. To move or leap about excitedly.
20. Informal To speak or behave in an evasive or vacillating manner: danced around the issue.
    Informal
21. To engage in or perform (a dance).
22. To lead (someone) in a dance.

Equivalents

Examples

“I do a dance when she plays the drums!”

“He does the Fortnite dance with his friends in school.”

“"I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places.[…]"”

“The dance we had in August 2008 is one of the greatest moments of my life!”

“But, he continued, "the experience of the Peking Municipal Communist Youth League shows that, as long as dance parties are organized and supervised well by the work units concerned and these units organize their own sentries, as long as the people attending these dances are given a little coaching in advance on what is meant by normal socializing and recreation, and as long as these dances are organized, led and guided properly, there will be no incidents."”

“They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.”

“So how much longer are we gonna do this dance?”

“He that would watch the king's hares must not drag himself along as if he was a lazybones with soles of lead to his boots, or like a fly on a tar-brush, for when the hares began to scamper about on the hill-sides it was quite another dance than lying at home and catching fleas with mittens on.”

“It was seen that the readiness to dance and intensity of the dance are clearly increased when the temperature in the hive remained between 28-36° C.”

“The fact appears to have been that Simon de Montacute bore two coats; the one, Argent, three fusils, which it is most probable was a corruption of a fess dancette, or a dance, Gules; and the other, Azure, a griffin segreant[…]”

“It is as follows - being headed by a shield of arms in colours - gold with a dance gules between three croslets fitchy gules.”

“Or, a dance gules, in chief 3 lions' faces sable.”

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