What's the difference between dance and fess?

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.

Fess


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Fesse

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These details were analysed by computer to identify common factors in the small percentage of patients who present with persistent recurring sinusitis after FESS.
  • (2) This retrospective analysis presents the management and outcome of 16 children (less than 16 years) and 47 adults who had revision FESS.
  • (3) He claimed 99.9% of the transactions were clean, although he did fess up to $14m of accidental dealings.
  • (4) Three different vasoconstricting agents were evaluated during functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) in 57 children.
  • (5) So I think it's time we atheists 'fessed up and admitted that life without God can sometimes be pretty grim.
  • (6) No one in the party will fess up to it, but it often gives the appearance of following what Australian politicians call a "small target strategy", giving away precious little about what it may or may not have planned, so as to give the Tories as little to attack as possible.
  • (7) Preoperative radiologic and intraoperative endoscopic findings of maxillary and ethmoid sinuses were compared in 75 adult patients, in whom 135 chronically inflamed maxillary sinuses were operated using functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS).
  • (8) In our institution, 0.05% oxymetazoline is the preferred vasoconstrictor for FESS in children.
  • (9) As a rule, functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) is recommended for patients with chronic sinus problems that do not respond to medical treatment.
  • (10) Functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) requires cadaver-based practice to acquire the necessary technical expertise.
  • (11) Over the past few months Michael Fallon has repeatedly told the Commons that no British servicemen would be deployed in Syria without another vote: under the pressure of a freedom of information request, Mr Airfix had last Friday been forced to fess up that a few Brits had already flown on US strikes on Syria.
  • (12) To report our experience with the radiographic evaluation of severe complications resulting from the functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) procedure.
  • (13) The other, a 13-year-old girl, with an antro-choanal polyp underwent FESS only.
  • (14) Based on the experiences of these two cases, FESS appears to be very helpful in treating children with choanal polyp and paranasal sinusitis.
  • (15) FESS provides a relatively atraumatic means of removing polyps and creating better sinus drainage.
  • (16) To enable this to be undertaken as a bench-top activity the Edinburgh FESS Training system has been developed.
  • (17) Although the ostiomeatal unit is the central feature in sinonasal inflammatory disease, obstruction of the infundibulum alone or of the sphenoethmoidal recess can cause unique inflammatory patterns of disease that require tailored FESS.
  • (18) Two hundred patients with chronic sinusitis were operated on using functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) techniques.
  • (19) The government has fessed up that four of the country's troubled lenders would need a further €24bn to withstand a worse-than-expected performance by the economy, and even that colossal sum is likely to prove an underestimate.
  • (20) For a period of 3 to 36 months, we followed the recovery of 210 children who underwent FESS between 1986 and 1989.