dance

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
美 /dæns/|[dɛəns ~ deəns]|/dæːns/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction. countable,uncountable
    — I do a dance when she plays the drums!
  2. 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.
    — The fact appears to have been that Simon de Montacute bore two coats; the one, Argent, three fusils, which it is most probable was a corruption of a fess dancette, or a dance, Gules; and the other, Azure, a griffin segreant[…]
  3. A social gathering where dancing is the main activity. countable,uncountable
    — The dance we had in August 2008 is one of the greatest moments of my life!
  4. The art, profession, and study of dancing. uncountable
  5. Ellipsis of electronic dance music. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis,uncountable
  6. A piece of music with a particular dance rhythm. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  7. A battle of wits, especially one commonly fought between two rivals. countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — So how much longer are we gonna do this dance?
  8. Any strenuous or difficult movement, action, or task. countable,dated,figuratively,uncountable
    — 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.
  9. A repetitive movement used in communication between worker honey bees. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music. intransitive
    — I danced with her all night long.
  2. To leap or move lightly and rapidly. figuratively,intransitive
    — His eyes danced with pleasure as he spoke. She accused her political opponent of dancing around the issue instead of confronting it.
  3. To perform the steps to. transitive
    — Have you ever danced the tango?
  4. To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about. transitive
    — Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By pavèd fountain, or by rushy brook, or in the beachèd margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport.
  5. To make love or have sex. euphemistic,figuratively
    — You make me feel like dancing.
  6. To make a repetitive movement in order to communicate to other 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.
  7. To kick and convulse from the effects of being hanged. euphemistic,figuratively
    — If that veil can be maintained, if the workers can be kept from knowing the perfidy of officials, the criminality of capitalism, the murderous vengeance that is planned by the plutocratic powers of America, then Charles Moyer, William D. Haywood, and George Pettibone will dance on empty air, while the ghouls of capitalism rejoice because they have landed another blow upon the body of resisting labor.

词形变化

dances plural daunce alternative,obsolete dances present,singular,third-person dancing participle,present danced participle,past danced past daunce alternative,obsolete dances plural

词汇关系

近义词
dance get some have sex
下位词
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衍生词
adance antidance avant-dance belly-dance break-dance Caribbean dance music cinedance country-dance cushion-dance danceaholic danceathon dance band dance belt dance-card dance card dancefest dance floor dance fly dance game dancegoer dance-goer dancegoing dance gypsy dance hall dancehall dance-hall dance-happy dance hostess danceless dancelike danceline dance machine dancemaker dancemaking dance mat dance move dance music dance of death dance-off dance of the seven veils dance on a rope dance on nothing dance on someone's grave dance pad dance platform dance pole dancepop dance-pop dancercise dancery dancescape dance school dancesport dance step dance studio dance-time dancetime dancewear dancy disco-dance electronic dance music elf-dance fan-dance feminist dance therapy for a song and a dance for a song and dance horizontal slam dance intelligent dance music lap-dance lead someone a dance lesbian dance theory let's dance line-dance line of dance Mexican hat dance non-dance predance slam-dance song and dance square-dance step-dance tap-dance tear up the dance floor toe-dance breakdance dancer sky-dance angels dancing on the head of a pin baby dance bedance braindance danceability danceable dance around dance attendance dance out dance the hempen jig dance the Tyburn jig dance to a different tune dance to a new tune dance to someone's tune dance upon nothing dance with the devil dance with the one that brought you dancing juice dancing links dancingly dancingness dirty dance line dance nondancing outdance put on one's dancing shoes undanced undancing underdanced
相关词
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词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Vulgar Latin *dantiāreder.
Anglo-Norman dauncerbor.
Middle English dauncen
English dance
From Middle English dauncen, from Anglo-Norman dauncer, from Vulgar Latin *dantiāre, of uncertain origin. Displaced Old English sealtian, and partially displaced Old English hlēapan (“to leap, dance, run”) (whence modern leap). Doublet of danza.
词源 2
Related to dancy, dancetté, French danché.
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