(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.
Ensemble
Definition:
(n.) The whole; all the parts taken together.
(adv.) All at once; together.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although a clean step response or the ensemble average of several responses contaminated with noise is needed for the generation of the filter, random noise of magnitude less than or equal to 0.5% added to the response to be corrected does not impair the correction severely.
(2) The ensemble electromyogram (EMG) patterns associated with different walking cadences were examined in 11 normal subjects.
(3) The barrelfield is the cortical "map" of the ensemble of vibrissal follicles on the mouse whiskerpad.
(4) He admitted the increased profile afforded him by appearances in movies such as Captain America , its forthcoming sequel The Winter Soldier and 2012's $1.5bn superhero ensemble piece The Avengers had helped him get a foot on the ladder as a film-maker.
(5) The effect of changes in the thermodynamic parameters on the equilibrium ensemble provides a further sensitivity check to the predictions.
(6) Ensemble averaging of a large number of unfiltered spectra was used as the "gold standard" in the evaluation, i.e., as the output of an ideal filter which reveals the exact nature of the underlying Doppler spectrum after speckle has been eliminated.
(7) The derived filter is automatically calculated from a large group (library) of similar GBPS which are representative of all studies acquired according to the same protocol in a defined patient population (the ensemble).
(8) The flexibility of the Man alpha (1-3)Man linkage is demonstrated, confirming the existence of an ensemble of conformations for this linkage.
(9) Ensemble averages from the latter group of patches revealed macroscopic Na+ currents with a biexponential decay phase.
(10) The conformational ensemble of the peptide is observed to narrow as it becomes bound through its cationic mid-region to SDS micelles, with the accompanying advent of local extended structure.
(11) The changes in distribution occur within the same ensembles of nerve cells that are necessary for the acquisition and performance of various learning tasks in several species.
(12) In the experimental analog, genetic selection or screening applied during recursive ensemble mutagenesis should force the evolution of an ensemble of mutants to a targeted cluster of related phenotypes.
(13) the vector sum of the ensemble of units, is the signalled orientation on a particular trial.
(14) Ensemble averages of small-channel activity in numerous sweeps were very similar in time course to the T currents recorded in the whole-cell mode.
(15) For conservative systems, the net flux conserves the total intra-channel cation population for an ensemble of channels.
(16) The arterial supply of this ensemble of the medial basal hypothalamus is common from the hypophyseal arteries, via the primary plexus and the specific vascular loops of the median eminence.
(17) The images due to the ensemble of spectral lines can be separated in principle by deconvolution of the data with the PSF before reconstruction.
(18) This week, Reich and his musicians performed three nights of concerts with the Philip Glass Ensemble at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, at a festival in honor of the 50 th anniversary of Nonesuch Records.
(19) The perpendicular component of the rf electric field creates a frequency shift resulting in phase synchronization of the ion ensemble.
(20) These findings emphasize the role of cellular properties as compared to synaptic wiring in the production of cyclic motor patterns by ensembles of neurons.