What's the difference between dancing and wooing?

Dancing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dance
  • (p. a. & vb. n.) from Dance.

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.

Wooing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Woo

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The striking weakness of Clegg's thesis was what it left out in its attempt to carve out a position for restless party activists as their poll ratings dip (down to 14% according to ICM) as Miliband tones down his own anti-Lib Dem rhetoric to woo them.
  • (2) Apart from a few diehards, it will be hard to mourn the defeat in 2010 of a political party that lost its moral bearings in its bid to woo middle England, slavishly reflecting back what it believed this narrow constituency wanted to hear.
  • (3) The idea of cutting corporation tax was floated in the Sunday Express last month as a way of wooing banks considering leaving the UK because of an impending Brexit.
  • (4) Unless those at the bottom of the heap can represent themselves, and the inarticulate will not know how to woo judges, they will be outlaws.
  • (5) Konstantin Malofeev, a wealthy Russian oligarch, Putin-backer and extreme nationalist who has said Ukraine is an artificial creation, appears to be a central figure in the funding and wooing of Russian support in Europe.
  • (6) The recorded comments emerged on the eve of a general election in which the Tory party is attempting to woo Liberal voters and gain seats in the south currently held by the Liberal Democrats by proving it will be tougher on discrimination and embrace equality.
  • (7) Greene King wooed Spirit in an attempt to expand in London and south-east England, where people have more money to spend on drinking and eating out.
  • (8) A group of ex-miners appear to have been wooed by Osborne when he visited them ahead of a trip to the Thoresby colliery in Nottinghamshire earlier this month to announce the government would underwrite a fuel-benefit scheme.
  • (9) Nevertheless Spielberg “is currently trying to woo me to go over there to do films with DreamWorks”.
  • (10) The dinner was part of efforts to woo the then influential Fifa vice-president Jack Warner, who has since quit football in disgrace.
  • (11) This does not stop further attempts to merge with other Arab nations – Sudan and Egypt decline his wooing as well.
  • (12) But at least they won it, Kim Jung-woo causing mild havoc in the area with a free kick in from the right, Lugano forced to head behind.
  • (13) Bearing in mind that the beaus will be queuing round the block to woo Gigi, perhaps she should bite the bullet and think of the dosh.
  • (14) Using the “golden era” phrase coined by David Cameron and George Osborne in their attempts to woo the Chinese , May said on Thursday: “I am determined that as we leave the European Union, we build a truly global Britain that is open for business.
  • (15) The court ruled that Woolas's claim, in mocked-up newspapers, that Watkins had "wooed" Islamic extremists and failed to condemn radical groups attacks, was deliberately and knowingly misleading.
  • (16) Outcry The Business Birmingham team has been wooing politicians and business people at home and has sent international trade delegations to India, France and five cities across the US.
  • (17) Elwyn Watkins claimed that Woolas knowingly misled voters in Oldham East in a desperate bid to stir up religious tensions in the last days of the election by claiming Watkins had "wooed" Islamic extremists.
  • (18) Rommey's attempt to woo Hispanic voters was further damaged on Thursday with the emergence of a clip from a video of a Romney fundraiser in which he said that illegal immigrants generally "have no skill or experience".
  • (19) For Vona is here to woo the estimated 50,000 Hungarian expats living in the UK, more than half of whom live in London and the south-east of England.
  • (20) On the diplomatic front, Abe is busily wooing his Asian neighbours.

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