What's the difference between dance and worship?

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.

Worship


Definition:

  • (a.) Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness.
  • (a.) Honor; respect; civil deference.
  • (a.) Hence, a title of honor, used in addresses to certain magistrates and others of rank or station.
  • (a.) The act of paying divine honors to the Supreme Being; religious reverence and homage; adoration, or acts of reverence, paid to God, or a being viewed as God.
  • (a.) Obsequious or submissive respect; extravagant admiration; adoration.
  • (a.) An object of worship.
  • (v. t.) To respect; to honor; to treat with civil reverence.
  • (v. t.) To pay divine honors to; to reverence with supreme respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honor of; to adore; to venerate.
  • (v. t.) To honor with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize.
  • (v. i.) To perform acts of homage or adoration; esp., to perform religious service.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The author discusses marriages in which a basically insecure husband plays a god-like role and his wife, who initially worshipped him, matures and finds her situation depressing and degrading.
  • (2) If you worship money and things - if they are where you tap real meaning in life - then you will never have enough.
  • (3) At first hardline Islamist groups, and later the country’s religious establishment, had been calling for the statue’s removal, on the grounds that its presence was an example of idol worship, forbidden in Islam .
  • (4) At a press conference held outside the temple on Sunday, Oak Creek police chief John Edwards said the "heroic actions" of the two officers "stopped this from being worse than it could have been", noting that many people had gathered for worship at the time of the attack.
  • (5) The idea that churches should only be places of worship is quite a modern view,” says Matthew McKeague, head of regeneration at the Churches Conservation Trust.
  • (6) Lauren was my only daughter and I worshipped the ground she walked on and this person was hiding behind a computer.
  • (7) Likewise, Hippocrates, the father of western medicine, prescribed sun worship as a vital constituent of heath and had a solarium installed on the island of Kos.
  • (8) Having narrowly avoided taking the state into the realm of a free press we should not be intruding on the freedom of worship that is the proper preserve of the church not the courts."
  • (9) In a time of growing tensions we must uphold our fundamental freedom to worship in the land of religious freedom and its why I choose to be unapologetically Muslim every day.
  • (10) New Labour actively championed the City, worshipping the bankers and marketing London as a financial centre where the regulation would be light touch.
  • (11) David Cameron is supporting a compromise through what is known as a permissive clause that allows gay marriages to be held in places of worship but does not oblige religious organisations to hold same-sex weddings.
  • (12) On Sunday, gun control advocates plan to hold a "National Gun Prevention Sabbath", where they say 150 houses of worship will advocate a plan to prevent gun violence, and people who have lost friends and relatives to gun violence will display their photographs.
  • (13) Over the summer, Hindu nationalists in India performed ceremonial rituals for Trump in the hopes that their worship would help him get elected, so he can “ put an end to Islamic terrorism ”.
  • (14) But like many South Africans, he balances indigenous ancestor worship with the Christian God‚ or at least gives that impression publicly.
  • (15) In his book School Worship: An Obituary (1975), he argued against the practice of compulsory worship in inclusive schools.
  • (16) But one way of looking at the whole armour of Christian practices – prayer, worship, and endless discussion of these things – is that their function is to suggest that it doesn’t have to be a delusion, that the world around them may be wrong.
  • (17) There is an inability to break with the slavish, neoliberal worship of that abstract totem, the national economy.
  • (18) His new organisation, described in one account as being "characterised by the ultra-left posturing and Mao worship", was called the Workers' Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought.
  • (19) Here workmen brought from distant Rajasthan are preparing spectacular marble panels inlaid with semi-precious stone for a new place of worship, or gurdwara .
  • (20) But this was still very much hero worship, northern-style: the 100 or so Werder Bremen fans stood in orderly rows in the Bremen airport arrivals hall in early September, strictly behind the barrier, of course, and many of them carried smiles that were equal parts genuine, childlike excitement and self-deprecating mocking of their own genuine, childlike excitement, a way to cope with the sense of wonderment: are we really here?