dance
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) The art, profession, and study of dancing.uncountable
2. (uncountable) A genre of modern music characterised by sampled beats, repetitive rhythms and few lyrics.uncountable
3. (figurative) A battle of wits, especially one commonly fought between two rivals.Examples: "So how much longer are we gonna do this dance?"countablefigurativelyuncountable
4. (figurative, dated) Any strenuous or difficult movement, action, or task.Examples: "He that would watch the king's hares must not drag himself along as if he was a lazybones with soles of lead to his boots, or like a fly on a tar-brush, for when the hares began to scamper about on the hill-sides it was quite another dance than lying at home and catching fleas with mittens on."countabledatedfigurativelyuncountable
5. (beekeeping) A repetitive movement used in communication between worker honey bees.Examples: "It was seen that the readiness to dance and intensity of the dance are clearly increased when the temperature in the hive remained between 28-36° C."countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music.Examples: "I danced with her all night long."; "These drum beats are making me dance!"; "“Well,” I answered, at first with uncertainty, then with inspiration, “he would do splendidly to lead your cotillon, if you think of having one.” ¶ “So you do not dance, Mr. Crocker?” ¶ I was somewhat set back by her perspicuity."Synonyms: throw shapesintransitive
2. (intransitive) To leap or move lightly and rapidly.Examples: "His eyes danced with pleasure as he spoke. She accused her political opponent of dancing around the issue instead of confronting it."; "And woods along the banks are waving high, / Whose shadows in the glassy waters dance,"; "A common and beautiful side-effect of high solar activity is the Aurora Borealis - the northern lights that dance across Arctic skies."intransitive
3. (transitive) To perform the steps to.Examples: "Have you ever danced the tango?"transitive
4. (transitive) To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about.Examples: "Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By pavèd fountain, or by rushy brook, or in the beachèd margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport."; "Thy grandsire loved thee well; / Many a time he danced thee on his knee."transitive
5. (figurative, euphemistic) To make love or have sex.Examples: "You make me feel like dancing."Synonyms: do the deedeuphemisticfiguratively
6. (beekeeping, of a worker honey bee) To make a repetitive movement in order to communicate to other worker honey bees.Examples: "It was seen that the readiness to dance and intensity of the dance are clearly increased when the temperature in the hive remained between 28-36° C."
noun (English)
1. (heraldry) A normally horizontal stripe called a fess that has been modified to zig-zag across the center of a coat of arms from dexter to sinister.Examples: "The fact appears to have been that Simon de Montacute bore two coats; the one, Argent, three fusils, which it is most probable was a corruption of a fess dancette, or a dance, Gules; and the other, Azure, a griffin segreant[…]"; "It is as follows - being headed by a shield of arms in colours - gold with a dance gules between three croslets fitchy gules."; "Or, a dance gules, in chief 3 lions' faces sable."
Definition source: Wiktionary