English Dictionary

dance

/dæns/

noun

A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction. / A social gathering where dancing is the main activity.

She loves to dance.

意味（1）

A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction.

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.[…]

意味（2）

A social gathering where dancing is the main activity.

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.[…]

意味（3）

(uncountable) The art, profession, and study of dancing.

意味（4）

(uncountable) A genre of modern music characterised by sampled beats, repetitive rhythms and few lyrics.

意味（5）

A piece of music with a particular dance rhythm.

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.

意味（6）

(figuratively) A battle of wits, especially one commonly fought between two rivals.

So how much longer are we gonna do this dance?

意味（7）

(figuratively, dated) Any strenuous or difficult movement, action, or task.

He that would watch the king's hares must not drag himself along as if he was a lazybones with soles of lead to his boots, or like a fly on a tar-brush, for when the hares began to scamper about on the hill-sides it was quite another dance than lying at home and catching fleas with mittens on.

意味（8）

(heraldry) A normally horizontal stripe called a fess that has been modified to zig-zag across the center of a coat of arms from dexter to sinister.

意味（9）

(apiology) A repetitive movement used in communication between worker honey bees.

It was seen that the readiness to dance and intensity of the dance are clearly increased when the temperature in the hive remained between 28-36° C.