What's the difference between courant and dance?

Courant


Definition:

  • (a.) Represented as running; -- said of a beast borne in a coat of arms.
  • (p. pr.) A piece of music in triple time; also, a lively dance; a coranto.
  • (p. pr.) A circulating gazette of news; a newspaper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He could forget about mastering the tricky manoeuvres of the "coranto" or courante , and at last fall "to quiet of mind and business again".
  • (2) La circulation atmosphérique serait affectée, les courants-jets de latitude moyenne devraient se déplacer vers les pôles d’1 ou 2 degrés de latitude dans les deux hémisphères.
  • (3) Flow images caused by confluent axes of high-flow veins (internal iliac veins, renal veins) or layer courants (gutter effect) are presented as a reminder.
  • (4) M&S has managed a few coups of late – its terribly au courant blue metallic pencil skirt has been splashed across the style press this season, and ads campaigns featuring model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (who has also been the face of Burberry) have boosted the brand's credentials.
  • (5) It’s the widest beach on the coast and runs alongside the Courant d’Huchet nature reserve.
  • (6) You can walk along the banks of the courant (stream), which ends, 9km inland, at the freshwater Etang de Léon.
  • (7) Bateliers (from €13.50pp) offers a two-hour trip by boat down the courant d’Huchet to see the herons, otters and arum lilies.
  • (8) Connecticut newspaper the Hartford Courant – 50 miles from Newtown – left it to resident cartoonist Bob Englehart to deliver its response to the NRA's breaking of silence.
  • (9) Daytrippers stay on Mimizan Plage Sud for surfing, or the riverbank Plage du Courant for swimming.
  • (10) Samir Nasri Official (@SamNasri19) Merci a tous pour vos messages je serai indisponible pour 8 semaines je vous tiens au courant de l'evolution de la blessure January 13, 2014 "Thank you everyone for your kind words and overwhelming support, I suppose its kind of good news that I will be out around 8 weeks," he tweeted.
  • (11) Artistic credentials are au courant in the important business of being seen as cultured, elegant and, of course, stupendously rich.
  • (12) Its parent company, Tribune, owns seven other papers including the Chicago Tribune and the Hartford Courant.
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dessert at Ô Courant, Mimizan One hundred years ago, the only sporting activity was hunting.
  • (14) Restaurant Ô Courant has views of both and a lunchtime special of starter, main course, cheese and dessert all on the same plate for €15.

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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