(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.
Wallet
Definition:
(n.) A bag or sack for carrying about the person, as a bag for carrying the necessaries for a journey; a knapsack; a beggar's receptacle for charity; a peddler's pack.
(n.) A pocketbook for keeping money about the person.
(n.) Anything protuberant and swagging.
Example Sentences:
(1) "For a few it will feel like having your wallet nicked with the mugger then handing you a few bob back to buy a pint.
(2) Eventually I was given a bag with my name on it, containing my jacket, wallet, and camera equipment.
(3) The #putyourwalletsout phrase was coined by Sydney-based Twitter user Steve Lopez, who accompanied it with a photo of his wallet.
(4) Each note is like a little illuminated manuscript in your wallet.
(5) Karpeles says that the money, discovered on 7 March, was moved first to online wallets, and then back to an offline wallet between 14-15 March.
(6) No relation to Ann Widdecombe 1 Advent calendar Receiving it on Christmas Day makes me 100% confident I won't be facing the disappointment of finishing it too early 2 Nog I don't like eggs but I love a bit of eggnog, think how good nog would be without the eggs holding it back 3 WH Smith's voucher Keep in my wallet for guilt free hours of magazine browsing all year round 4 Quality Street Always have a present you can instantly re-wrap and give to someone else 5 Bath bomb Take cover!
(7) What they do have is “bounce-backability” when you take them out of a wallet.
(8) These are then stored in a "wallet", which functions as a sort of online bank account.
(9) Maybe if they knew that paying higher prices meant wages would rise and employment contracts would be more secure, they would open their wallets.
(10) Neither Google Wallet nor Softcard has achieved significant uptake among users or retailers – and all eyes will be on Apple to see whether its initiative stalls, or takes off.
(11) The annual battle to win the hearts and wallets of Christmas shoppers will see UK companies spend more than £1.5bn on advertising campaigns.
(12) The statement said a search of one gang member’s house unearthed a red duffel bag with an Italian flag that contained Regeni’s student cards, credit cards, mobile phones and a brown wallet with his passport in, as well as a second wallet emblazoned with the word “love” and other personal effects such as sunglasses.
(13) It's not a rowdy place – think the cocktail cognoscenti trading tales over Rolling Stones classics – so come to expand your palate (but squeeze your wallet!).
(14) In Moscow, Bank Rossiya is known as “Putin’s wallet” .
(15) Cook told fans afterwards: “We are not kidding, that just happened.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest iPhone 6 to feature mobile wallet
(16) He is attempting to pay back customers who had stored more than 1 BTC (currently worth around $330) from his own personal account, as well as from the coins Inputs.io had in "cold storage" – a wallet not connected to the internet.
(17) Released in the US in 2011, the Google Wallet limps on but a planned expansion to the UK was cancelled.
(18) The Bitcoin Foundation, the non-profit devoted to development and promotion of the currency, says that “any company dealing with Bitcoin transactions [which has] coded their own wallet software should responsibly prepare for this possibility”.
(19) The high street has suffered a painful contraction as the prolonged recession ate into consumers' wallets.
(20) Australia’s three million smokers are speaking with their wallets and literally walking into their local retailers and asking for the cheapest pack on the shelves.” Overnight, the British House of Commons voted to adopt similar legislation by 367 votes to 113.