(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.
Rance
Definition:
(n.) A prop or shore.
(n.) A round between the legs of a chair.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said the generations of Americans had made significant strides toward rance tolerance, but added: "It doesn't mean we're in a post-racial society.
(2) The scheme is billed as a world first, but a similar – though different – tidal scheme has operated for 45 years at La Rance in north-western France.
(3) With AEDANS-G-actin, the initial formation of a ternary G2S complex between two G-actin and one S1 molecules (Valentin-Ranc, C., Combeau, C., Carlier, M. F., and Pantaloni, D. (1991) J. Biol.
(4) Greater than 98% of the 1H resonances, including spin systems for each amino acid residue, have been identified by using an approach that integrates data from a wide range of two-dimensional scalar correlated NMR experiments [Chazin, Rance, & Wright (1988) J. Mol.
(5) Trina Rance, retail operations manager of Dawsons music shop, Piccadilly, Manchester.
(6) Some differences did exist, especially regarding use of antiseptic solutions for cleansing nipples, use of herbal teas for treatment of engorgement and the concern of "over nurtu-rance" due to China's One-Child Policy.
(7) Seymour Alexander, Craig Berman, Rica Bird, Prof Haim Bresheeth, James Cohen, Mike Cushman, Deborah Fink, Kenny Fryde, Carolyn Gelenter, Michael Gold, Tony Greenstein, Abe Hayeem, Selma James, Michael Kalmanovitz, Paul Kaufman, Rachel Lever, Dr Les Lewidow, Susanne Levin, Prof emeritus Moshe Machover, Miriam Margolyes, Diana Neslen, Roland Rance, Frances Rifkin, Sheila Robin, Prof emeritus Steven Rose, Prof emeritus Jonathan Rosenhead, Leon Rosselson, Michael Sackin, Miriam Scharf, Ruth Tenne, Stanley Walinets, Sam Weinstein, Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi • Robert Booth reports ( 20 January ) that “UK Jews are braced for the worst” in an extensive article filled with antisemitic incidents, reported jihadist plots and suitcases packed to leave Britain.