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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Dance

dance
VERB: danced , danc·ing , danc·es
VERB: intr.
To move rhythmically usually to music, using prescribed or improvised steps and gestures.
To leap or skip about excitedly.

To appear to flash or twinkle: eyes that danced with merriment.

Informal To appear to skip about; vacillate: danced around the issue.

To bob up and down.

VERB: tr.
To engage in or perform (a dance).
To cause to dance.
To bring to a particular state or condition by dancing: My partner danced me to exhaustion.

NOUN:
A series of motions and steps, usually performed to music.

The art of dancing: studied dance in college.

A party or gathering of people for dancing; a ball.

One round or turn of dancing: May I have this dance?

A musical or rhythmical piece composed or played for dancing.

The act or an instance of dancing.

ETYMOLOGY: Middle English dauncen, from Old French danser, perhaps of Germanic origin

OTHER FORMS: dancer (Noun), dancing·ly (Adverb)

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