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# trance

«trance» in Mova's school dictionary: **A state like being half asleep or dreaming, when you are…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a trance, trances)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A state like being half asleep or dreaming, when you are awake but do not notice what is around you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trance/#m1)

2) A state when someone is deeply lost in thought, music or wonder and does not hear you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trance/#m2)

3) (also trance music) A kind of fast electronic dance music. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trance/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In The Wind in the Willows («The Piper at the Gates of Dawn») the Rat and the Mole hear wonderful piping and fall into a kind of trance of awe before the god Pan; then they forget it. In stories hypnotists and magicians put people «into a trance». In everyday life we say «He's in a trance» about someone daydreaming. Phrases: «in a trance», «fall into a trance».

### examples

- She stared at the fire as if in a trance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trance/#x1)
- The music put the animals into a kind of trance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trance/#x2)
- «Wake up! You're in a trance!» laughed my friend. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trance/#x3)
- The hypnotist claimed he could put people in a trance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trance/#x4)
- The Rat walked on in a trance, listening to the distant piping. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trance/#x5)
- My brother watches cartoons like he's in a trance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trance/#x6)
- Around it he saw several knights sitting in a trance; then he pulled off their rings and put them on his own fingers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trance/#x7)

### note

Countable. Related: entrance (verb «en-TRANCE» = to fill with wonder) is spelled like «entrance» (a way in) but said differently.

### Trees and pragmatics

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