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# dance

«dance» in Mova's school dictionary: **to move your body to music** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (dance, dances, danced, dancing); noun (a dance, dances; dance — the art)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To dance is to move your body to music. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dance/#m1)

2) A dance is one set of steps, like a waltz or a tap dance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dance/#m2)

3) A dance is also a party where people dance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dance/#m3)

4) Dance is the art of dancing, like ballet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dance/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

maths: an event with tickets or people, or a lesson time; dance classes often have a time each week (total time = time per class × classes); PE: dance lessons; everyday life: school dances, dancing at weddings; culture: dances from many countries; science: bees do a dance to show where flowers are

### examples

- Tickets to the school dance cost $5. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dance/#x1)
- She dances for 2 hours every Saturday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dance/#x2)
- 30 children came to the dance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dance/#x3)
- Each dance lasts 4 minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dance/#x4)
- We learned a new dance in PE. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dance/#x5)
- Bees dance to tell other bees where flowers are. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dance/#x6)
- They danced all night at the wedding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dance/#x7)
- She goes to ballet dance class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dance/#x8)
- "I don't like dancing," he said. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dance/#x9)

### note

A word of the story; the numbers are people, time or money. Trap: none special. Drop the e before -ing: dancing.

### In the corpora

- [Falling is part of learning to dance, and many viral videos took the dancer dozens of tries.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/8/)
- [Almost everyone can learn to dance with practice and by listening for the beat, the steady pulse of the music.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/13/)
- [Hopak is a lively Ukrainian folk dance with big jumps and squat-kicks, linked to Cossack traditions.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/14/)
- [Viral dances are made by real people, often young creators, and naming them when you copy their dance is fair.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/15/)
- [Dancing in a group first can build the confidence to dance alone, and many dancers are shy off stage.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dance» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dance/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.