dance

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We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance.

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Quick take

an artistic form of nonverbal communication

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of dance gathered in one view.

noun

an artistic form of nonverbal communication

noun

a party of people assembled for dancing

noun

taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for dance.

noun

an artistic form of nonverbal communication

noun

a party of people assembled for dancing

noun

taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music

See also: dancing, terpsichore, saltation

noun

a party for social dancing

verb

move in a graceful and rhythmical way; "The young girl danced into the room"

verb

move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance; "My husband and I like to dance at home to the radio"

verb

skip, leap, or move up and down or sideways; "Dancing flames"; "The children danced with joy"

Example sentences

We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance.

Sounds like a serious lapse of "dance with the one who brung ya" to me.

It shouldn't be "they kill us and dance in their streets, we kill them and dance in ours".

They got the money and then did a kind of mindless MBA rain dance until the money was gone.

And to this, I congratulate Airbnb on their latest success, and to a dance well done.

"Like scoring an own goal, doing a victory dance, and then sprinting back out to score another.

We have more people who graduate with degrees in dance than we do people who graduate with degrees in mathematics.

How did two obscure, older French guysYeah, that's BS, Daft Punk are regarded as the kings of commercial dance music.

If you're not careful it will sing you whatever song you desire, whispering "yes, yes, more like that" in your ear as you dance down to hell.

I can only imagine the horror, the way kids of going to deal with the text walls full of verbosity, API dance and the XML mess.

Connect the phone via USB. Right click to enable it for development and then do some song and dance with Apple to get permission to use "your" device for development.

But if the hunters danced at just any time, every day would be like every other day, and I should never have any vacation at all.

Unless calling me something different is going to somehow make me run, climb, or dance again, then it really doesn't matter how you refer to me.

We go thorough this song-and-dance every year: FB updates security policies, everyone is up in arms, then -- gasp!

In 17th century England, as modern western society was taking shape, you had, on the one side, royalists who despised political freedom, who valued rule by a church hierarchy, and yet who were much given to licentious habits in their lifestyles while, on the other, you had those who agitated for political freedom, who fought oppressive forms of centralized rule, who ultimately broke away to form what became America, and yet who in their personal lives bore the grim face of the puritan that sought at every turn to chain, quarter, and shame everyone all about who thought it might be fun to dance or to have a little fun in life.