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trance | x |

As a noun trance

is .

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

trance

English

(wikipedia trance)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) traunce, from (etyl)

Alternative forms

* traunce (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A dazed or unconscious condition.
  • (consciousness) A state of concentration, awareness and/or focus that filters information and experience; e.g. meditation, possession, etc.
  • * Bible, Acts x. 10
  • And he became very hungry, and would have eaten; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance .
  • * Spenser
  • My soul was ravished quite as in a trance .
  • (psychology) A state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow attention.
  • (psychology) The previous state induced by hypnosis.
  • (uncountable) Trance music, a genre of electronic dance music.
  • (obsolete) A tedious journey.
  • (Halliwell)
    Descendants
    * French:

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (tranc)
  • To entrance.
  • * Shakespeare
  • And there I left him tranced .
  • (obsolete) To pass over or across; to traverse.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
  • Trance the world over.
  • * Tennyson
  • When thickest dark did trance the sky.
  • (obsolete) To pass; to travel.
  • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * * * * * * ----

    x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
  • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.
  • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike
  • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----