Dance vs Breathe - 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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, passage=“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.}}
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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1000 English basic words
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To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.
To take in needed gases and expel waste gases in a similar way.
:Fish have gills so they can breathe underwater.
To use (a gas) to sustain life.
:While life as we know it depends on oxygen, scientists have speculated that alien life forms might breathe chlorine or methane.
Figuratively, to live.
:I will not allow it, as long as I still breathe .
*(rfdate) Shakespeare
*:I am in health, I breathe .
*(rfdate) Sir Walter Scott
*:Breathes there a man with soul so dead?
To draw something into the lungs.
:Try not to breathe too much smoke.
To expel air from the lungs, exhale.
:If you breathe on a mirror, it will fog up.
To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to emanate; to blow gently.
:The wind breathes through the trees.
*(rfdate) Shakespeare
*:The air breathes upon us here most sweetly.
*(rfdate) Byron
*:There breathes a living fragrance from the shore.
To give an impression of, to exude.
:The decor positively breathes classical elegance.
To whisper quietly.
:He breathed the words into her ear, but she understood them all.
To exchange gases with the environment.
:Garments made of certain new materials breathe well and keep the skin relatively dry during exercise.
To rest; to stop and catch one's breath.
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*:Thenne they lasshed to gyder many sad strokes / & tracyd and trauercyd now bakward / now sydelyng hurtlyng to gyders lyke two bores / & that same tyme they felle both grouelyng to the erthe / Thus they fought styll withoute ony reposynge two houres and neuer brethed
*(rfdate) Shakespeare
*:Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again!
To stop, to give (a horse) an opportunity to catch its breath.
:At higher altitudes you need to breathe your horse more often.
In intransitive terms the difference between dance and breathe
is that dance is to leap or move lightly and rapidly while breathe is to exchange gases with the environment.In transitive terms the difference between dance and breathe
is that dance is to cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about while breathe is to stop, to give a horse an opportunity to catch its breath.As a noun dance
is a sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction.dance
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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.