(n.) An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment, or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women. Sometimes, a scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing.
(n.) The company of persons who perform the ballet.
(n.) A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa la burden or chorus, -- most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers.
(n.) A bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color.
Example Sentences:
(1) The somatograms demonstrated that the ballet dancers had relatively smaller upper arms and larger calves and ankles compared with the reference female.
(2) Ballet dancers generated significantly less mechanical power than indoor soccer, basketball and bobsled athletes, while wrestlers generated significantly less power than indoor soccer and basketball athletes (all p less than 0.05).
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Dutch National Ballet’s production of Coppélia Photograph: Marc Haegeman
(4) The claim has stunned a community who knew him not as a pale spectre in Taliban videos but as the tall, affable young man who served coffee and deftly fended off jokes about Billy Elliot – he did ballet along with karate, fencing, paragliding and mountain biking.
(5) The decision, which is being contested by the arts world in Germany and beyond, will effectively end the Deutsche Oper am Rhein – considered to be among Germany's 10 leading theatre institutions – and will seriously dent Duisburg's musical theatre and ballet output.
(6) He has classical roots in common with Michael Clark, the Royal Ballet prodigy turned punk choreographer.
(7) The data from this study suggest that the body type characteristics associated with professional classical ballet dancers are already apparent in the pre-professional adolescent dancers.
(8) Twenty-nine soloist and principal dancers (mean age, 29.08 years) from America's two most celebrated ballet companies were administered questionnaires measuring personality (API), occupational stress (OES), strain (PSQ), and coping mechanisms (PRQ), and injury patterns.
(9) And the US default and the ballet ballot on strike action were both looming -- they could have wiped out the positive momentum.
(10) The effects of nutrition on the incidence of stress fractures among classical ballet dancers were studied.
(11) She was raised in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, where she attended a Welsh-speaking school and trained as a ballet dancer before studying theatre, film and TV at Aberystwyth University.
(12) An ethnic Tatar from eastern Russia, Mingazov was a successful ballet dancer before he entered the Russian Army in the late 1980s.
(13) Women who feel "unfeminine" when playing sport could take up other activities like "ballet, gymnastics, cheerleading and even roller-skating", the minister of sports, equalities and tourism Helen Grant has suggested.
(14) But this is not some illustration of a legend, it is Mlle Fiocre in the ballet La Source , and therefore his first ballet picture, not that you would notice if the title didn't give the game away.
(15) Grace and speed In his physical prime, a decade earlier, Ali had such grace and foot speed that watching him perform almost became an extension of the balletic arts.
(16) So when he accepted the post of artist-in-residence at American Ballet Theatre , the company rightly felt they had scored a coup.
(17) Watching Fox News is like a rehearsed ballet: every show over the last week has claimed that president Obama’s response to the murder of journalist James Foley has been so weak because he issued a statement before going back to his golf game while on vacation – host Judge Jeanine’s monologue epitomised the channel’s sentiment.
(18) The results were evident in the "hip-hop ballet" class in a new dance studio, and a mural of a meteor containing a dove about to hit a forest struck by lightning, suggesting that somewhere a heavy metal band is missing an album cover.
(19) Back in the high puritan era of 17th-century England, when Oliver Cromwell tried to ban all forms of public dance, from court masques and ballets to maypole dancing, the effect of the prohibition was to create a generation for whom dance represented sin.
(20) I have always been crazy flexible because I did ballet.
Billet
Definition:
(n.) A small paper; a note; a short letter.
(n.) A ticket from a public officer directing soldiers at what house to lodge; as, a billet of residence.
(v. t.) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge. Hence: To quarter, or place in lodgings, as soldiers in private houses.
(n.) A small stick of wood, as for firewood.
(n.) A short bar of metal, as of gold or iron.
(n.) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round.
(n.) A strap which enters a buckle.
(n.) A loop which receives the end of a buckled strap.
(n.) A bearing in the form of an oblong rectangle.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the St George Hotel in Darlington, where they were billeted for the group stage, there was endless confusion at orders of rice and soy sauce for breakfast.
(2) Were she honoured in Stockholm, it would also be a generous and welcome boost to the morale of all those struggling manfully to honour Frau Merkel’s confident ‘Yes, we can’ by coping practically with the asylum seekers billeted daily on their towns and villages.
(3) The misogynist masterpiss billets half the population to the whorehouse.
(4) The measured (3)JHNHalpha coupling constants and the intensity of the intraresidue HN-Halpha NOEs agree well with the solution structures of three of the proteins, using the existing parametrization of the Karplus curve (Pardi, A., Billeter, M. and Wuthrich, K. (1984) J. Mol.
(5) The nucleotide sequences (13 to 26 nucleotides) and map positions of these oligonucleotides were known from previous work (Billeter, M. A.
(6) Supplier relations Since Adelca’s demand for scrap metals is greater than the supply – and recycled scrap costs less than imported billets – the company has invested in building up its network of recyclers, including donating metal cutting equipment, offering loans, providing and paying for training and promising the best price for the scrap metals provided.
(7) According to Isabel Meza, head of integrated management at Adelca, by importing fewer billets, they are saving $12m (£7.6m) on the 20,000 tonnes of steel they produce every month.
(8) Untreated beech waste -- forest billets -- showed a low digestibility (5.6%) and that of zero fibre was somewhat higher (12.6%).
(9) Occasionally it is alleged that the billet began to totter during the stroke and that the left hand responded to this stimulus by an unwilled movement to the billet.
(10) Objects were beech-billets with relatively big cross-section areas.
(11) A map of the large T1 oligonucleotides of the RNA of Prague Rous sarcoma virus, strain B (Pr RSVb) has recently been established (Coffin and Billeter, submitted for publication).
(12) Rozanne used to bicycle from what she describes in wartime slang as her "billet" with a working-class couple, the Dickenses, in Fenny Stratford.
(13) Those billeted on the other side of the building will look out at the intriguing, if bizarre, sight of a huge deserted, cylindrical former hotel in a typically bold Oscar Niemeyer design.
(14) Clearly running Centrica – or SSE or npower, both of which have also changed their chief executives in the past year or so – is not the easiest billet in the commercial universe.
(15) 246, 5003-5024) and the cognate nucleotide sequence recently determined in our laboratory (C. Escarmis and M. A. Billeter, unpublished results).
(16) Seven young soldiers, billeted in their house, made a mascot of young Alfred, who was profoundly impressed by the encounter.
(17) Complete sequence-specific assignments of the 1H NMR spectrum of bungarotoxin were reported in the previous paper [Basus, V.J., Billeter, M., Love, R.A., Stroud, R.M., & Kuntz, I.D.
(18) The working assumption is all billets are going to be open by the end of the year,” he said.
(19) She has always hunted out old letters from antique markets, little scraps of billets-doux and deeds of sale, faint tracings of forgotten human hope in copperplate, the ink faded to brown and grey.
(20) If Clegg returns to the Cabinet Offices, where the deputy prime minister is billeted, and insists that the terrorism laws are indeed changed in line with the wishes of his party conference, I will take all this back.