What's the difference between dancer and pirouette?

Dancer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who dances or who practices dancing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The somatograms demonstrated that the ballet dancers had relatively smaller upper arms and larger calves and ankles compared with the reference female.
  • (2) Ballet dancers generated significantly less mechanical power than indoor soccer, basketball and bobsled athletes, while wrestlers generated significantly less power than indoor soccer and basketball athletes (all p less than 0.05).
  • (3) Amenorrhea in this sample of adult dancers was not related to current activity level or age at which training began.
  • (4) Every classical dancer aims to achieve perfect turnout.
  • (5) Next his wife, Jay Z isn't much a dancer, and when the tempo upped, he respectfully exited, letting her lead her Beyhive legions through their hip-shaking glory.
  • (6) Blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you’ll marry a music man Ballerina, you must have seen her, dancing in the sand And now she’s in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand For a moment it seemed possible that the person about to get out of the plane was a man of subtle taste and kindness, a man who could appreciate such beauty, who was secure enough in himself to set his arrival in Sacramento to the soundtrack of a 45-year-old song by a gay troubadour.
  • (7) The only time I see him in even vague bad humour is when a wardrobe assistant tries to neaten a dancer's hair.
  • (8) According to the Orlando Weekly , a friend said that Velazquez was with two other friends at Pulse, where the dancer was pushed against a wall by the shooter, Omar Mateen.
  • (9) Steel bands, choirs and dancers performed while the mass of people, many with their children, blew horns and whistles as they passed alongside parliament.
  • (10) Are we really asking standups to compete with burlesque dancers and rock music?
  • (11) The data from this study suggest that the body type characteristics associated with professional classical ballet dancers are already apparent in the pre-professional adolescent dancers.
  • (12) I've never seen anyone put glass in another dancer's pointe shoes.
  • (13) The significant positive correlation between BSRQ health and physical fitness among dancers was not observed among nondancers.
  • (14) To examine the possible differential influence of heredity and environmental factors on menarcheal age, 350 adolescent dancers and non-dancers and their mothers were surveyed.
  • (15) My personal favorite part was Beyoncé had her backup singers and dancers in pantsuits.” Each celebrity who joined Clinton for her last push seemed to top the previous night, giving her closing appearances an aura of celebration.
  • (16) A case of chronic, progressive avulsion of the anterior superior iliac spine leading to the formation of a long, attenuated spur of bone in an 18-year-old black male break dancer is described.
  • (17) Inside was the world's biggest map, depicting all of New York state, laid out in sparkling terrazzo, across which troupes of acrobats and dancers would perform, and the animals of the kiddies' petting zoo would snuffle.
  • (18) Twenty-nine soloist and principal dancers (mean age, 29.08 years) from America's two most celebrated ballet companies were administered questionnaires measuring personality (API), occupational stress (OES), strain (PSQ), and coping mechanisms (PRQ), and injury patterns.
  • (19) In the video she walks away from her twerking dancers.
  • (20) Kanda creates Arca’s distorted imagery, such as the gender-blurring video for his Thievery single, in which a dancer’s jiggly butt cheeks are transposed onto Arca’s body, or their ongoing film project, Trauma, with its dancing babies that look like they’re made of melted wax.

Pirouette


Definition:

  • (n.) A whirling or turning on the toes in dancing.
  • (n.) The whirling about of a horse.
  • (v. i.) To perform a pirouette; to whirl, like a dancer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Craig Forsyth crossed low from left-back for Hughes to time his run late and pirouette into a position from which he deflected the ball home with the inside of his left heel.
  • (2) The pirouette mutation was tested for possible genetic linkage with naked neck, tardy feathering, the MN t(Z;1) chromosome rearrangement, all assigned to distinctly different regions of Chromosome 1, and the OH inv(2) chromosome rearrangement and shankless (associated with the OH inv(2) rearrangement).
  • (3) Despite the withdrawal of the medication, 4 hours later ventricular tachycardia of the "pirouette" type arose that 2-3 minutes later was followed by ventricular fibrillation with clinical death.
  • (4) Similar anticipation by Baines prevented Fellaini scoring a second after a pirouette with the ball in the Everton area, then when Rashford played Valencia in on the overlap with a showy disguised pass, the United player had to delay his cross because not a single red shirt was waiting in the box.
  • (5) This eliminates specific regions of Chromosomes 1 and 2 as possible locations for the pirouette mutation.
  • (6) No one was hurt in the incident and he escapes punishment Receives another red card March 2011 Balotelli apologises to his team-mates after he is sent off during a Europa League tie with Dynamo Kyiv for a reckless challenge on Goran Popov Enrages Mancini with back-heel July 2011 Balotelli is immediately substituted by an enraged Mancini after performing a pirouette and back-heeling a close-range shot wide when clean through on goal in a pre-season friendly against Los Angeles Galaxy Allows firework to be set off in his bathroom October 2011 The Italian has another run-in with the emergency services after a firework is set off in the bathroom of his home, triggering a fire.
  • (7) About 19 seconds after we first saw him, he twisted in a horrible pirouette and collapsed.
  • (8) During a study to determine if any genetic linkage existed between the chicken mutations pirouette and naked neck, it was found that when both traits are expressed simultaneously in an individual, an "automutilation" condition can be created in some cases.
  • (9) Canada’s 20-year-old Eugenie Bouchard was left embarrassed when the male presenter conducting her on-court interview at the Australian Open asked her: “Can you give us a twirl?” When the Wimbledon runner-up replied “A twirl?”, the interviewer, Ian Cohen, told her: “A twirl, like a pirouette, here you go.” Somewhat uncomfortably, the No7-ranked player did as she was asked, then laughed and buried her face in her hands.
  • (10) Connor Wickham continued to make a case for being the division's in-form player with a slick pirouette and cross from the right that went precisely at the Swede.
  • (11) The tremulous head movements of naked neck-pirouette chicks cause scraping of the skin on the neck against the egg shell during hatching, resulting in lacerations of the neck in varying degrees.
  • (12) In 1987, during two great skating contests--the Universiade in the Tatra Mountains and the Gold Pirouette in Zagreb--a total of 42 world class skaters were asked through a questionnaire if they had ever in their career suffered from a stress fracture.
  • (13) It just stares dumbly at you through the screen while its grotesquely undersized "body" pirouettes through a magical world of animals.
  • (14) You go to dance school, you train your arse off for five years, you can do a triple pirouette on your head and land in the splits, and then you come out and someone's like: 'What are your measurements?'"
  • (15) Ruiz got their first and his pirouette left Wilshere tackling thin air.
  • (16) He pirouettes down the left and reaches the byline, his fancy skills forcing the Liverpool defence to stand back.
  • (17) John Kerry's farce and Barack Obama's pirouettes are temporary.
  • (18) Diskerud tries a little pirouette on the ball on the edge of the box, but it doesn't quite come off.

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