Dance vs Dancing - 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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1000 English basic words
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The activity of taking part in a dance.
(historical) A dance club in France.
* 2001 , William A. Shack, Harlem in Montmartre: A Paris Jazz Story Between the Great Wars
* 2003 , Jeffrey H. Jackson, Making Jazz French: Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris (page 44)
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As nouns the difference between dance and dancing
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 dancing is the activity of taking part in a dance.As verbs the difference between dance and dancing
is that dance is to move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music while dancing is present participle of lang=en.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.
Derived terms
* dance attendance * dancer * dirty dance * line danceSee also
* * acrobatics * ballet * ballroom * disco * foxtrot * hiphop * jazz * modern * musical theatre * tap dancing * terpsichoreanExternal links
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Noun
- New dancings pervaded the length and breadth of Montmartre in order to suit the taste of foreign patrons.
- Different dancings also attracted different crowds. Indeed, the diversity of dancers throughout the city makes drawing a detailed portrait of them difficult.