What's the difference between ballroom and dance?

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.

Dance


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To move with measured steps, or to a musical accompaniment; to go through, either alone or in company with others, with a regulated succession of movements, (commonly) to the sound of music; to trip or leap rhythmically.
  • (v. i.) To move nimbly or merrily; to express pleasure by motion; to caper; to frisk; to skip about.
  • (v. t.) To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about, or up and down; to dandle.
  • (v. i.) The leaping, tripping, or measured stepping of one who dances; an amusement, in which the movements of the persons are regulated by art, in figures and in accord with music.
  • (v. i.) A tune by which dancing is regulated, as the minuet, the waltz, the cotillon, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His verdict of her that "she danced on the graves of her husband's victims.
  • (2) In the dance off tomorrow should be Dave and Karen and Mark and Iveta, but it wouldn't surprise me if Fiona and Anton were in the bottom two instead.
  • (3) The Taliban banned television, music, dancing, and almost every other pastime, from kite-flying to cinema-going.
  • (4) I encourage you to visit your local care home on Friday to take part in the activities, from dance classes to tours of care homes.
  • (5) The station programmer of the year went to Andy Roberts of dance station Kiss.
  • (6) Oh, and let’s not forget about him doing bad dance moves in a video making fun of Drake’s choreography in the Hotline Bling video.
  • (7) Should it all go wrong, I can't see further than Dance of the Cuckoos , personally.
  • (8) He got in a cherry picker for Space Oddity, and managed to sing and dance.
  • (9) Dell'Utri managed the 1994 campaign – a dazzling phantasmagoria of dancing girls under the lights, while he saw to the shadows.
  • (10) It's the slogan of an old electronica & dance music festival in Berlin known as The Love Parade.
  • (11) His opposite number, Roy Carroll, saved at the feet of Sinclair, the County striker Izale McLeod drove inches wide, but in the 24th minute Villa were level, Jack Grealish dancing through a series of attempted tackles before putting the ball on a plate inside the penalty area for the hugely promising Adama Traoré to thump past Carroll.
  • (12) Saturday's programme was beaten in the ratings – at least while the two were head-to-head – by BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing.
  • (13) Not so in 2012, with the shortlist for outstanding achievement in dance revealed as Edward Watson for The Metamorphosis at Covent Garden; Sylvie Guillem for 6,000 Miles Away at Sadler's Wells and Tommy Franzen for Some Like it Hip Hop at the Peacock.
  • (14) A significant increase in the percentage of zymosan-complement rosette forming cells was seen during dancing.
  • (15) The purpose of this study was to determine the changes in maximum oxygen uptake (VO2max) and body composition following 8 weeks of aerobic dance using hand-held weights (Heavyhands, AMF, Jefferson, IA).
  • (16) She mentions the show at the Baltic in Gateshead in 2007, when one of her photographs, Klara and Edda Belly-dancing , owned by Elton John, was removed from the exhibition on the grounds that it was pornographic .
  • (17) The show discovered Susan Boyle and Paul Potts, but more recently has become synonymous with dancing dogs (controversially so last year, when it emerged the winner had used a stunt double ).
  • (18) This season’s other much awaited debut will be Natalia Osipova , dancing her first Kitri with the Royal later this month.
  • (19) "Anne Hathaway at least tried to sing and dance and preen along to the goings on, but Franco seemed distant, uninterested and content to keep his Cheshire-cat-meets-smug smile on display throughout."
  • (20) The 30-year-old, whose airway had been so damaged by TB she was gasping for breath on the stairs, told Professor Paolo Macchiarini she had been dancing all night in a club in Ibiza.

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