(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.
Galliard
Definition:
(a.) Gay; brisk; active.
(n.) A brisk, gay man.
(a.) A gay, lively dance. Cf. Gailliarde.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its buildings, arranged around a sociable courtyard and a slice of towpath, also nourish a community of businesses that sustain between 250 and 300 jobs, all of which could go if the site’s new owner, Galliard Homes, has its way.
(2) He said: “I want [homes] marketed first and sold first to the people of this country, not to oligarchs from the Planet Zog.” When we showed the mayor’s office Galliard’s plans to sell to Hong Kongers first, a spokesman called the adverts “shameful”.
(3) The concordat is a voluntary agreement based on goodwill, and the mayor expects every company signed up to honour their pledge.” Galliard confirmed it is launching the development in Hong Kong this weekend and then in the UK next weekend.
(4) Because Galliard sold to these buyers first – many of whom are in the UK – it argues that Hong Kong was not given priority.
(5) In December 2013 Galliard, along with other major developers such as Barratt and Taylor Wimpey, signed a pledge that they would give UK purchasers an equal chance to buy, amid widespread concern about the number of developments pre-sold to investors abroad.
(6) Dinesh Kumar was queueing outside a Galliard development for the second time this year, after buying another property in Canary Wharf.
(7) Only this week at the Conservative party conference, Johnson – whose Uxbridge constituency is just minutes away from the Galliard development – demanded that new homes in the capital be sold first to Londoners.
(8) Priced from £180,000, Galliard Homes is building studio and one-bed apartments minutes from local shops and only a half-hour tube journey from central London.
(9) As the rain started pouring, Galliard staff brought out umbrellas to the waiting crowd and reminded them that they had to hand them back before they went home, before letting them shelter inside the complex.
(10) The tool used to collect the data was a precoded questionnaire developed by Jones & Galliard.
(11) We will discuss with Galliard the specifics of this particular development of which we understand the majority is available – and has been sold – exclusively in the UK.
(12) Guardian Money was alerted to Galliard’s decision to sell to Chinese investors ahead of the British by a recent emigrant to the city, who spotted its promotion.
(13) The developer, Galliard, is selling 228 flats, starting at £199,000 for a 28 sq metre (301 sq ft) “studio suite” up to £355,000 for a one-bedroom apartment, on a first-come, first-served basis.
(14) It emerges that Galliard has a database of private buyers who purchase multiple properties (in other words, major buy-to-let landlords) and who are given first opportunity to buy.
(15) For UK buyers, the doors remain closed until next weekend, when Galliard launches what is left of the development to the public here.
(16) Because they are being built under government rules allowing a change of use from offices to residential , Galliard has not had to provide any social housing on the site.
(17) But if you are British, you may find yourself at the back of the queue: Galliard is putting the flats on sale to investors in Hong Kong this weekend, one week before they go on sale in the UK – despite a written promise by the developer to give British buyers at least an equal chance.
(18) But this week, in material sent to potential buyers in Hong Kong, Galliard told investors they could snap up apartments “releasing one week ahead of UK” in what it dubbed a “world exclusive”.
(19) I got one this morning and it clearly shows that one of the companies – Galliard Homes – who signed the pledge is still selling overseas ahead of buyers in the UK.” Darren Johnson, a Green Party member of the GLA who campaigns on housing issues, said: “The wider issue is that developers in the London market are simply not meeting the housing needs of ordinary Londoners.
(20) Four months later Galliard – the second biggest housebuilder in London – stood shoulder-to-shoulder with mayor Boris Johnson (right), with a separate undertaking.