Dance vs Bop - What's the difference?
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A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction.
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*:"I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances ; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places."
A social gathering where dancing is the main activity.
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*:"I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances ; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places."
(lb) A fess that has been modified to zig-zag across the center of a coat of arms from dexter to sinister.
A genre of modern music characterised by sampled beats, repetitive rhythms and few lyrics.
(lb) The art, profession, and study of dancing.
A piece of music with a particular dance rhythm.
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*:They stayed together during three dances , went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music.
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To leap or move lightly and rapidly.
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To perform the steps to.
To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about.
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To gently or playfully strike someone or something.
A style of improvised jazz from the 1940s.
A party.
* 2005 , Johnny Rich, Push Guide to Which University (page 472)
* 2012 , Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class (page 120)
To dance to this music, or indeed any sort of popular music with a strong beat.
As nouns the difference between dance and bop
is that dance is a sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction while bop is a very light smack, blow or punch.As verbs the difference between dance and bop
is that dance is to move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music while bop is to gently or playfully strike someone or something.As a proper noun BOP is
Boy's Own Paperdance
English
Alternative forms
* daunce (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* dance music * dirty dance * fan dance * line dance * * war danceVerb
(danc)- Shadows in the glassy waters dance .
- to dance our ringlets to the whistling wind
- Thy grandsire loved thee well; / Many a time he danced thee on his knee.
Derived terms
* dance attendance * dancer * dirty dance * line danceSee also
* * acrobatics * ballet * ballroom * disco * foxtrot * hiphop * jazz * modern * musical theatre * tap dancing * terpsichoreanExternal links
* * (books)Anagrams
*bop
English
Etymology 1
imitative of the sound madeVerb
Etymology 2
shortened from bebopNoun
- Theatres; Music House used for bands; May Ball; very popular weekly bops in JCR and MCR; library (57,000 books); 40 networked PCs, 24-hrs.
- At universities like Oxford, middle-class students hold 'chav bops' where they dress up as this working-class caricature.