Dance vs Mosh - 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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To dance by intentionally jumping into and colliding with other, similarly behaving dancers, and performing other wild, aggressive, or spastic movements.
* 2005 July 28, Kelefa Sanneh, “Heat, Good Cheer, Jagged Music and Even Some Melody”, New York Times
To intentionally jump into and collide with another, similarly behaving dancer at a concert.
As verbs the difference between dance and mosh
is that dance is to move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music while mosh is to dance by intentionally jumping into and colliding with other, similarly behaving dancers, and performing other wild, aggressive, or spastic movements.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.
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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mosh
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Verb
(es)- From 9 in the morning (when It Dies Today played the lot) until 9 at night (when Ozzy Osbourne led on the main stage), hardy fans cheered and moshed and staggered through a stifling but often exciting day.