What's the difference between ballroom and waltz?

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.

Waltz


Definition:

  • (n.) A dance performed by two persons in circular figures with a whirling motion; also, a piece of music composed in triple measure for this kind of dance.
  • (v. i.) To dance a waltz.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fines’ best actor nod fell in the comedy movie category, which he shared with Michael Keaton in Birdman, Bill Murray in St. Vincent, Joaquin Phoenix in Inherent Vice and Christoph Waltz in Big Eyes.
  • (2) As the Big Dog waltzed through a thicket of policy points, dropping drawl-inflected catchphrases, the teleprompter stuttered.
  • (3) Nick Clegg, 24 October 2010 Chopin's Waltz in A Minor played by Idil Biret Sunday Morning Coming Down by Johnny Cash The Cross by Prince Petit Pays by Cesária Évora Street Spirit by Radiohead Life on Mars by David Bowie Waka Waka 2010 World Cup theme, by Shakira Schubert's Impromptu No.3 in G Flat Major played by Alfred Brendel Book The Leopard, by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Luxury A stash of cigarettes David Cameron, 28 May 2006 Tangled Up In Blue by Bob Dylan Ernie by Benny Hill Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd Mendelssohn's On Wings of Song performed by Kiri Te Kanawa and Utah Symphony Orchestra Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead This Charming Man by The Smiths Perfect Circle by R.E.M.
  • (4) 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.
  • (5) We have reinvestigated the question of whether exercise stimulates lung growth by determining body weight (BW), lung volume (LV), alveolar surface area (SA), and alveolar number (N) in Japanese waltzing mice, in their phenotypically normal littermates, and in normal albino mice.
  • (6) Ruth Davidson, the Scottish Conservative leader, said: "We now have the European commission reaffirming what everyone knows – that a separate Scotland cannot simply waltz into the EU unchallenged.
  • (7) Would Christoph Waltz be playing a version of famed villain Blofeld in Sam Mendes’s second stint in the 007 hotseat?
  • (8) Despite much of the storyline having been gleaned from the trailers, there is still much speculation around Waltz’s villain, Franz Oberhauser.
  • (9) It follows his film Django Unchained in 2012, a western starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz which won Tarantino an Oscar for his screenplay – but Tarantino says that the new project is not connected.
  • (10) They make a nice couple, and I think they might do quite nicely provided he doesn't start doing Tony Blair impressions mid-Viennese waltz.
  • (11) This was simple stuff as Navas waltzed beyond Trémoulinas down the right, rolled the ball to Bony, and he beat Rico.
  • (12) Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona was named best comedy, while Pixar's Wall-E was named best animated feature, and animated documentary Waltz with Bashir received the best foreign language film prize.
  • (13) Ministers fearing the worst will be indulging in gallows humour with their private offices; those in a more optimistic frame of mind might be turning their thoughts to a bright tie to be photographed in when they complete their hoped-for happy waltz out of No 10. Who is safe?
  • (14) Similarly, gay SNL star McKinnon’s Ghostbusters character is never explicitly outed, but a few lines hint at her sexuality, while director Feig gave a “grinning, silent nod” in an interview with the Daily Beast when asked if she was gay, prefacing it with the comment: “When you’re dealing with the studios ...” And even the flashy reboot of Tarzan was set to have a kiss between Christoph Waltz’s flamboyant villain and an unconscious buffed-up Alexander Skarsgård , but it was chopped after test audiences were said to be left perplexed by it.
  • (15) However, the rate of decline of the EP was slower in kanamycin-treated guinea pigs and old waltzing guinea pigs.
  • (16) That would mean, in effect, a four-year process with Britain waltzing out of the bloc some time after the scheduled 2020 election.
  • (17) "I had a dream last night where Evra and Suarez came face to face they suddenly took each other in their arms and began to waltz beautifully around the pitch while the crowd hummed the Blue Danube," trills Rick Harris.
  • (18) We started setting up, and waltzing around a few musical things, and he was complaining about how loud we were and that we were playing everything wrong.
  • (19) You’ve goaded this sleeping giant, the ordinary licence fee payer’s docile spirit animal, into expressing an opinion on something more controversial than Judy Murray’s Viennese Waltz?
  • (20) The neurological mutant whirler mouse, one of several strains of waltzing mice, may be suitable as an animal model for testing studies relative to hyperkinesis.

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