(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.
Movement
Definition:
(n.) The act of moving; change of place or posture; transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or appropriate motion; progress; advancement; as, the movement of an army in marching or maneuvering; the movement of a wheel or a machine; the party of movement.
(n.) Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.
(n.) Manner or style of moving; as, a slow, or quick, or sudden, movement.
(n.) The rhythmical progression, pace, and tempo of a piece.
(n.) One of the several strains or pieces, each complete in itself, with its own time and rhythm, which make up a larger work; as, the several movements of a suite or a symphony.
(n.) A system of mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion; as, the wheelwork of a watch.
Example Sentences:
(1) 5-HT thus appears to be the preferred substrate for uptake into platelets and for movement from cytoplasm to vesicles.
(2) The catheter must be meticulously fixed to the skin to avoid its movement.
(3) Some common eye movement deficits, and concepts such as 'the neural integrator' and the 'velocity storage mechanism', for which anatomical substrates are still sought, are introduced.
(4) Tests showed the cells survive and function normally in animals and reverse movement problems caused by Parkinson's in monkeys.
(5) A 66-year-old woman with acute idiopathic polyneuritis (Landry-Guillain-Barré [LGB] syndrome) had normal extraocular movements, but her pupils did not react to light or accommodation.
(6) Further, at the end of treatment fewer patients had depressive symptoms and the total daily number of hours of wellbeing and normal movement increased.
(7) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
(8) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(9) Eye movements which were either complementary or in opposition to the induced vestibular nystagmus were produced with an optokinetic drum.
(10) The movements were affected by iodoacetate, p-mercuribenzoate, and mitomycin C at inhibitory or subinhibitory concentrations.
(11) Since intracellular Ca2+ seems to play a role in stimulus-secretion coupling and ion movements, several aspects of Ca2+ homeostasis have been investigated in CF.
(12) Gross deformity, point tenderness and decrease in supination and pronation movements of the forearm were the best predictors of bony injury.
(13) The cause has been innumerable "VIP movements", as journeys undertaken by those considered important enough for all other traffic to be held up, sometimes for hours, are described in South Asian bureaucratic speak.
(14) By adjustment to the swaying movements of the horse, the child feels how to retain straightening alignment, symmetry and balance.
(15) This "gender identity movement" has brought together such unlikely collaborators as surgeons, endocrinologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, gynecologists, and research specialists into a mutually rewarding arena.
(16) NE differentially affected responses to stimulus movement in the preferred and non-preferred direction in one-third of these neurons, such that directional selectivity was increased.
(17) Four goals, four assists, and constant movement have been a key part of the team’s success.
(18) Fluid movement out of the ICF space attenuated the decrease in the ECF space.
(19) Eye movements of convergence and divergence were recorded by a limbus tracker.
(20) These results suggest that, to fully understand how multijoint movement sequences are controlled by the nervous system, sensory mechanisms must be considered in addition to central mechanisms.