Haunt vs Dance - What's the difference?
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To inhabit, or visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts).
* Shakespeare
* Jonathan Swift
* Fairfax
To make uneasy, restless.
To stalk, to follow
To live habitually; to stay, to remain.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , John XI:
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:
To accustom; habituate; make accustomed to.
* Wyclif
To practise; to devote oneself to.
* Ascham
To persist in staying or visiting.
* Shakespeare
A place at which one is regularly found; a hangout.
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* 1868 , , "Kitty's Class Day":
* 1984 , Timothy Loughran and Natalie Angier, "
(dialect) A ghost.
* 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 93:
A feeding place for animals.Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.
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.
* Byron
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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In transitive terms the difference between haunt and dance
is that haunt is to stalk, to follow while dance is to cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about.In intransitive terms the difference between haunt and dance
is that haunt is to persist in staying or visiting while dance is to leap or move lightly and rapidly.haunt
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* (l) (Scotland)Verb
(en verb)- A couple of ghosts haunt the old, burnt-down house.
- You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house.
- those cares that haunt the court and town
- Foul spirits haunt my resting place.
- The memory of his past failures haunted him.
- The policeman haunted him, following him everywhere.
- Jesus therfore walked no more openly amonge the iewes: butt went his waye thence vnto a countre ny to a wildernes into a cite called effraym, and there haunted with his disciples.
- yonder in that wastefull wildernesse / Huge monsters haunt , and many dangers dwell
- Haunt thyself to pity.
- Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime.
- I've charged thee not to haunt about my doors.
Noun
(en noun)- Both Jack and Fletcher had graduated the year before, but still took an interest in their old haunts , and patronized the fellows who were not yet through.
Science: Striking It Rich in Wyoming," Time , 8 Oct.:
- Wyoming has been a favorite haunt of paleontologists for the past century ever since westering pioneers reported that many vertebrate fossils were almost lying on the ground.
- ‘Harnts don't wander much ginerally,’ he said. ‘They hand round thar own buryin'-groun' mainly.’
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*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.
