DANCE
\dˈans], \dˈans], \d_ˈa_n_s]\
Definitions of DANCE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music
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an artistic form of nonverbal communication
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a party for social dancing
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a party of people assembled for dancing
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move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance; "My husband and I like to dance at home to the radio"
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move in a graceful and rhythmical way; "The young girl danced into the room"
By Princeton University
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taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music
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an artistic form of nonverbal communication
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a party for social dancing
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a party of people assembled for dancing
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move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance; "My husband and I like to dance at home to the radio"
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move in a graceful and rhythmical way; "The young girl danced into the room"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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To move nimbly or merrily; to express pleasure by motion; to caper; to frisk; to skip about.
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To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about, or up and down; to dandle.
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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.
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A tune by which dancing is regulated, as the minuet, the waltz, the cotillon, etc.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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To move nimbly or merrily; to express pleasure by motion; to caper; to frisk; to skip about.
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To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about, or up and down; to dandle.
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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.
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A tune by which dancing is regulated, as the minuet, the waltz, the cotillon, etc.
By Noah Webster.
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To move the body and feet rhythmically to music; perform the figures of a dance; move nimbly or merrily.
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To give a dancing motion to; perform; as, to dance a jig.
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A regulated movement of the feet to a rhythmical musical accompaniment; a dancing party, less formal than a ball; one round of dancing.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To move with measured steps to music.
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The movement of one or more persons with measured steps to music.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To dandle; leap, quiver, flit, or skip lightly.
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A series of rhythmic concerted movements timed to music.
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A dancing party; tune to dance by.
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Dancer.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Robley Dunglison
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A form of exercise or diversion consisting in the execution of a definite series of rhythmical movements of the person or of the lower limbs.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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