What's the difference between ballroom and beguine?

Ballroom


Definition:

  • (n.) A room for balls or dancing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Queen hosts the banquet in the Buckingham Palace ballroom.
  • (2) As long as politicians like McConnell, Cuomo and Faulconer see a closed-door ballroom of billionaires as their base, they aren’t likely to vote to raise the minimum wage, in Congress or in the statehouses, on the left side of the aisle or the right.
  • (3) A man of Ben van Beurden’s power and reputation for blunt speaking is capable of silencing a ballroom packed with his boisterous peers.
  • (4) The house, which once belonged to Prince Jefri Bolkiah, the playboy younger brother of the Sultan of Brunei, boasts a ballroom with elaborate panelled walls edged with 24-carat gold leaf.
  • (5) They come to us alive with intentionality, describing themselves in movement, waltzing through the ballroom, trudging through the marsh after wildfowl, racing horses, cutting hay.
  • (6) It was 12.30pm Sunday, and the show had not even got started in the Reno Ballroom, the venue for the Republican frontrunner’s fifth rally in four days.
  • (7) Mr Jackson spoke to fans from his Neverland ranch, telling them he wanted to be with them at Santa Maria's Radisson Hotel, where they took over a ballroom for the gathering.
  • (8) But probably the most telling scene in both – a scene that really shows how they are different – is when Jack finds himself at the hotel bar in a vast empty ballroom, with no alcohol.
  • (9) The pair received 25 points for the dance, putting them bottom of the leaderboard ahead of the public vote and a week before the BBC show makes its annual journey to Blackpool’s Tower Ballroom.
  • (10) Because they pretend as if there is no religious aspect to this.” Addressing a ballroom full of the international press in Turkey, Obama argued sharply that there should be no religious aspect to US policy on admitting refugees.
  • (11) Read more He told Redknapp and her partner Kevin Clifton: “I loved the mix of jazz and ballroom in there and I loved that you showed her off.” TV judge, Judge Rinder, followed his performance by paying tribute to members of the armed forces and those who had survived in both world wars.
  • (12) • Ultimate Power is at Electric Ballroom, London and Moon Club, Cardiff, both 26 February; ultimatepowerclub.com .
  • (13) The set was very deliberately built to be offbeat and off the track, so that the huge ballroom would never actually fit inside.
  • (14) In the historic Surf Ballroom on the shores of Clear Lake in northern Iowa, Democratic activists filled the room to its capacity of 2,100 to see four of the party’s five candidates for president each take turns touting their liberal bona fides.
  • (15) You think the ballroom is an impressive space, and then you see the dance hall (nowhere near ready).
  • (16) At a morning event on Friday in a West Des Moines hotel ballroom, Graham drew a crowd that would have been considered standing room only if the attendees had been young enough.
  • (17) But the former shadow chancellor Ed Balls stole the show as he was lowered from the ceiling of the Tower Ballroom playing a piano before jiving with Katya Jones to the Jerry Lee Lewis song Great Balls Of Fire.
  • (18) Trump is now focusing instead on extending the house, now named after his mother Mary MacLeod, with a 400-capacity ballroom and six new bedrooms.
  • (19) But this is early days, phase one of four, promising over the next couple of years everything from a “fine dining” restaurant to the revival of the cinema and ballroom.
  • (20) Ballroom suits her SO much better than latin - her frame still lacks control, but it has nice rise and fall and is streets ahead of last week's performance.

Beguine


Definition:

  • (n.) A woman belonging to one of the religious and charitable associations or communities in the Netherlands, and elsewhere, whose members live in beguinages and are not bound by perpetual vows.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This gene is known to be required to allow formation of any ordered head structure from the major T4 capsid protein, P23 (Laemmli, U.K., Beguin, F., and Gujer-Kellenberger, G. (1970) J. Mol.
  • (2) I met a musician, John Clegg, who has even written a song about it, to the tune of Begin the Beguine.
  • (3) asks Chris Julio Iglesias, the man who crooned classics such as To All The Girls I've Loved Before and Begin The Beguine, is your man.

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