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Definition: Dancing |
DancingAdjective1. Moving quickly and excitedly; "on dancing feet". Noun1. Taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dancing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Food & Agriculture | Consists of treading the layers of drying beans with the naked feet, and, as with hand rubbing, serves the double purpose of removing the mildew from the bean. . . and of giving a finish. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Dance is, in general terms, human movement with an implied purpose such as the communication of an aesthetic or emotional idea, participation with music, and/or the achievement of certain mind-body states, sometimes spiritual-mystical ones, sometimes as simple as body fitness.Dance is contrasted to utilitarian, mundane movement such as walking, hammering, typing, lifting weights, etc., that has a direct "materialistic" purpose.
A dance also refers to a specific form of this movement. Specific dances have names that are recognized, and the specifics of the dance may be formalized. Examples of specific dances or families of dances are waltz, jig and "Orange Blossom Special".
Dances develop out of a particular culture, and usually have a specific purpose, such as social dancing or performance dancing. These dances may be accepted and/or adapted by other cultures, and for other purposes. For example, the social dances of one culture and time period might become the historical reenactment dances of another culture and time period.
From the sociological point of view, dance is usually considered to be cultural rather than natural phenomenon. Therefore a possible way of classification of various forms of dance is according to the spheres of cultural activity: religion, art, sport, recreation. Of course, this classification is neither precise nor complete. For example, dance can be a form of therapy (choreotherapy). For some people, dance is simply job. Elements of dance can be found in a number of sports, such as gymnastics, figure skating, synchronized swimming.
Dance is often seamlessly blended with other types of art and sports, such as pantomime or gymnastics. Many folk and ethnic dances use steps and movements that imitate important everyday activities: agricultural, fishing, hunting, etc. However the purpose of, e.g., harvesting dance is not harvesting, rather tale about harvesting or something similar.
Dance movement is often, though not always, rhythmic, and usually requires rhythm of music, at least imaginary. Sometimes dancers by their own motion produce music (stomping, clapping, ringing the bells attached to body or garments). As art or entertainment, dancing can be done for dancers' own pleasure or as performance, i.e., for the pleasure of others. It may be danced individually, as couples or in groups.
The principal element of dance is the motion of the dancer's body. It can be more or less coordinated, slower or faster, but always purposeful. Another importann component of dance is rhythm. It is also said that dance is a form of nonverbal communication. In this sence, someone has said (bearing religious dance in mind) "Dance is prayer of feet".
The history of dance is as long as the history of mankind. We can only guess how dances looked like in earlier epochs. In European culture, one of the earliest records of dancing is by Homer, whose "Iliad" describes chorea (khoreia).
Dance is found in every human culture. Dance scholar Alfred Gell has defined dance as "a stylized deformation of nondance mobility, just as poetry is a deformation or modulation of language, a deviation from the norm of expression that enhances expressiveness (Gell, Alfred. 'Style and Meaning in Umeda Dance' in: Spencer, Paul, ed. Society and the Dance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985)."
A continuum of dance can be posited that stretches from the most extreme and solitary forms of non-technical, ritual dance (endurance/trance dancing) through a broad middle of folk dance (including everything from modern club dances to a medieval minuet), to extreme forms of performance dance such as neoclassical ballet or postmodern works employing decontextualized pedestrian movement.
When the purpose of a movement activity is not immediately clear, it is sometimes referred to as dancing. Some examples:
Dance choreography is the act of planning a dance so a dancer will move in a certain way. It is also the result of this planning.
- Boxers and fencers are said to dance around each other. Martial arts, especially Asian ones, are often rightfully compared to dancing.
- It is said that certain animals dance as part of their mating rituals. Their is still great mystery surrounding these patterns. An example is bee dance, a remarkably regular movement which a honeybee often performs in a hive. It has been a mystery since man first domesticated the bees, the purpose of which has only recently been uncovered.
A significant part of dancing culture takes erotic dance (e.g., belly dance). Often erotic dancer's clothing is limited and/or sexy or gradually decreased (striptease). An erotic male dancer with little clothes, e.g. only briefs, is sometimes called "macho dancer".
However nudity in dance is not a prerogative of erotic dance. The culture and the ability of the human body is a significant aesthetic component in many dance styles.
See also
Dance is a musical form to describe musical work composed with the aim (at least formally) of performing a dance; see Dance music and Dance as form of musical composition.
- An index list of specific dances
- Dance music
- Wikipedia:Dance basic topics.
The Dance are a mysterious fictional alien race in Marvel comics who communicate exclusively through dancing.
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Synonyms: DancingSynonyms: dance (n), terpsichore (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Dance; hop, reel, rigadoon, saraband, hornpipe, bolero, ballroom dance; minuet, waltz, polka, fox trot, tango, samba, rhumba, twist, stroll, hustle, cha-cha; fandango, cancan; bayadere; breakdown, cake-walk, cornwallis, break dancing; nautch-girl; shindig; skirtdance, stag dance, Virginia reel, square dance; galop, galopade; jig, Irish jig, fling, strathspey; allemande; gavot, gavotte, tarantella; mazurka, morisco, morris dance; quadrille; country dance, folk dance; cotillon, Sir Roger de Coverley; ballet; (drama); ball; bal, bal masque, bal costume; masquerade; Terpsichore. |
Ridiculousness | Adjective: ridiculous, ludicrous; comical; droll, funny, laughable, pour rire, grotesque, farcical, odd; whimsical, whimsical as a dancing bear; fanciful, fantastic, queer, rum, quizzical, quaint, bizarre; screaming; eccentric; (unconformable); strange, outlandish, out of the way, baroque, weird; awkward; (ugly). |
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Screenplays | Number oneis dancing! (Lilo & Stitch; writing credit: Chris Sanders) But this year somebody told me not to. So I'm going to do my kind of dancing with a great partner (Dirty Dancing; writing credit: Eleanor Bergstein.) Maybe there won't be marriage, maybe there won't be sex, but by God there'll be dancing! (My Best Friend's Wedding; writing credit: Ronald Bass) Define irony: a bunch of idiots dancing around on a plane to a song made famous by a band that died in a plane crash (Con Air; writing credit: Scott Rosenberg) Oh daddy, your dancing went out with pop-up fuels it is practically 20th century (The Jetsons; writing credit: Aarne Tarkas) | |
Lyrics | This gun's for hire even if we're just dancing in the dark (DANCING IN THE DARK; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) I feel like dancing dancing (You Make Me Feel Like Dancing; performing artist: LEO SAYER) Dancing Queen, feel the beat from the tambourine ("Dancing Queen"; performing artist: Abba) Yeah we dancing in between all the lines (Sunshine; performing artist: Aerosmith) You're only dancing on this earth for a short while (Oh Very Young; performing artist: Cat Stevens) | |
Clever | Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire. (references; author: unknown) WARNING: The consumption of alcohol is a major factor in dancing like a retard. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973) All Talking... All Singing... All Dancing (1971) Come Dancing (1970) Dancing w kwaterze Hitlera (1968) Javanese Dancing (1954) | |
Song Titles | Dancing Machine (performing artist: Jackson Five) Dancing in the Moonlight (performing artist: King Harvest) You Make Me Feel Like Dancing (performing artist: Leo Sayer) Dancing On The Ceiling (performing artist: Lionel Richie) Dancing Bear (performing artist: The Mamas And The Papas) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Chief Collins with Tagahili dancing girls. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Indian Pow Wow dancing in Browning, MO. Credit: USDA. |
 | Indian mother, father and daughter in teepee dressed for dancing at a pow wow in Browning, MO. Credit: USDA. |  | Dancing at the Pioneer Festival (NHOTIC). Credit: BLM Staff. |
 | Caption: Edison Employees Dancing on Lakeside Avenue; West Orange, NJ; Unknown Date; {10.119/1} (jpg). |  | Caption: Mina Edison Folk Dancing at National Recreation Congress; Atlantic City, NJ; October, 1922; {14.352/62} (jpg). |
 | [Invalids - Recreation and Entertainment: Dancing by Lunatics] / Sketched by W.H. Davenport. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [Appreciative spectators during entertainment and dancing in a leper colony] / WHO photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | "Let every one take care of himself" (As the Jack ass said when he was dancing among the chickens). Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The political dancing Jack: a holiday fift for sucking Whigs!!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Dancing girls" by Kevin Rohr Commentary: "Two Dominican girls dancing." | "Dj dancing" by Bas V.d Eykhof Commentary: "The Dj moves to the beat." |
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 | Crowd noise at a gamelan festival with dancing. |
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Henny Youngman | Some people ask the secret of our long marriage, We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays. |
Henry Fielding | Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom. |
Samuel Johnson | They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master. |
| Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs. | |
Thorstein Veblen | In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | It may be possible to do without dancing entirely |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The dancing in a ring of the 8th of July effaced the enthusiasm of the 20th of March |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Yet a voice within him spoke above the noise of his dancing heart, asking him would he take her gift to which he had only to stretch out his hand |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Dancing had not formally started, but now Willie climbed onto the platform |
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Business | Apart from formal education, there are many other educational institutes in Korea including language, computer, fashion design, music, art, dancing, drama and movie institutes. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Nigeria | The performance of music and dancing was banned under the Shari'a law introduced by Katsina State. (references) |
Chad | The Sufi order originated in Nigeria and Senegal and incorporates singing and dancing into its religious ceremonies and activities. (references) | |
Chad | The Government reportedly has denied official recognition to some groups of Arab Muslims in Ati, near the eastern border with Sudan, on the grounds that they have incorporated elements of traditional African religion, such as dancing and singing, into their worship. (references) | |
Economic History | Israel | Israel has several professional ballet and modern dance companies, and folk dancing, which draws upon the cultural heritage of many immigrant groups, continues to be very popular. (references) |
Human Rights | Iran | Authorities occasionally enter homes to remove television satellite dishes, or to disrupt private gatherings in which unmarried men and women socialize, or where alcohol, mixed dancing, or other forbidden activities are offered or take place. (references) |
Trade | Vietnam | Special consumption taxes also apply for services such as dancing, massage, karaoke, casino, jackpot machine games, certain betting activities and golf. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FAIRY, n. A creature, variously fashioned and endowed, that formerly inhabited the meadows and forests. It was nocturnal in its habits, and somewhat addicted to dancing and the theft of children. The fairies are now believed by naturalist to be extinct, though a clergyman of the Church of England saw three near Colchester as lately as 1855, while passing through a park after dining with the lord of the manor. The sight greatly staggered him, and he was so affected that his account of it was incoherent. In the year 1807 a troop of fairies visited a wood near Aix and carried off the daughter of a peasant, who had been seen to enter it with a bundle of clothing. The son of a wealthy bourgeois disappeared about the same time, but afterward returned. He had seen the abduction been in pursuit of the fairies. Justinian Gaux, a writer of the fourteenth century, avers that so great is the fairies' power of transformation that he saw one change itself into two opposing armies and fight a battle with great slaughter, and that the next day, after it had resumed its original shape and gone away, there were seven hundred bodies of the slain which the villagers had to bury. He does not say if any of the wounded recovered. In the time of Henry III, of England, a law was made which prescribed the death penalty for "Kyllynge, wowndynge, or mamynge" a fairy, and it was universally respected. |
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Art Linkletter | It's like dancing in the air. When you are skiing fast down the slope, you just put a little pressure on one side and you go to the other side, and it's just the speed, you're just flying. |
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| "Dancing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 58.57% of the time. "Dancing" is used about 962 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 58.57% | 563 | 11,148 |
| Noun (singular) | 41.12% | 396 | 14,082 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.21% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.1% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 962 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "dancing": ballroom dancing ♦ bar with dancing ♦ belly dancing ♦ break dancing ♦ clog dancing ♦ country dancing ♦ dancing bear ♦ dancing devil ♦ dancing frog ♦ dancing girl ♦ dancing girls ♦ dancing lady orchid ♦ dancing lesson ♦ dancing master ♦ dancing partner ♦ dancing party ♦ dancing school ♦ dancing teacher ♦ folk dancing ♦ gypsy dancing ♦ hawaiian dancing ♦ interpretative dancing ♦ interpretive dancing ♦ morris dancing ♦ nude dancing ♦ pop dancing ♦ register dancing ♦ ritual dancing ♦ round dancing ♦ slam dancing ♦ social dancing ♦ square dancing ♦ stage dancing ♦ step dancing ♦ sword dancing ♦ tap dancing ♦ tape dancing ♦ toe dancing. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "dancing": dancing-eyed, dancing-floor, dancing-girl, dancing-girls, dancing-hall, dancing-in-the-aisles, dancing-malady, dancing-master, dancing-partners, dancing-room, dancing-school, dancing-teacher, dancing-teachers, dancing-type. | |
Ending with "dancing": all-dancing, break-dancing, non-dancing, tap-dancing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
dancing | 6,024 | exotic dancing | 169 |
belly dancing | 1,662 | square dancing | 168 |
break dancing | 1,361 | pole dancing | 152 |
dirty dancing | 921 | break dancing video | 144 |
dancing baby | 796 | nude dancing | 143 |
ballroom dancing | 465 | break clip dancing | 137 |
line dancing | 381 | dirty dancing soundtrack | 135 |
dancing hamster | 376 | dancing shoes | 134 |
salsa dancing | 332 | hip hop dancing | 121 |
banana dancing | 281 | animation dancing | 117 |
swing dancing | 273 | bailando dancing | 109 |
lap dancing | 250 | dancing district in | 107 |
dancing girl | 245 | belly dancing class | 101 |
bush dancing | 228 | dancing freak | 101 |
belly dancing costume | 219 | dancing at the blue iguana | 101 |
dancing bear | 202 | dancing baby screensaver | 99 |
dancing queen | 184 | hula dancing | 98 |
irish dancing | 180 | 2 dancing dirty | 97 |
tap dancing | 175 | belly dancing video | 95 |
break dancing move | 171 | dancing lyrics queen | 90 |
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| Language | Translations for "dancing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | valle (dance), vallëzime, vallëzim (dance, promenade), lëkundje (backlash, fluctuation, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, jarring, jolting, nutation, oscillation, pitch, quake, reel, rolling, shake, shaking, shilly shally, shimmy, stagger, sway, swing, swinging, teeter, thrill, tossing, tremor, vacillation, vibrancy, vibration, wabble, wavering, wobble). (various references) | |
Arabic | رقص (choreography, dance, dandle, foot, frisk, hop, limbo, perform, trip), راقص (dancer). (various references) | |
Asturian | baillar. (various references) | |
Bemba | ukushana. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | танцуване, танци, играене. (various references) | |
Cebuano | pagsayaw. (various references) | |
Chamorro | man babaila. (various references) | |
Chinese | 跳舞 (Danced). (various references) | |
Czech | tanec (cotillon, dance, fox-trot, jive, rock 'n' roll), taneèní, tanèení. (various references) | |
Danish | stoevhvirvel (dancing devil, dust devil, dust whirl, sand whirl), sandhvirvel (dancing devil, dust devil, dust whirl, sand whirl). (various references) | |
Dutch | zandhoosje (dancing devil, dust devil, dust whirl, sand whirl), stofwervel (dancing devil, dust devil, dust whirl, sand whirl), stofhoosje (dancing devil, dust devil, dust whirl, sand whirl). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | tushuna (to jump). (various references) | |
Faeroese | dansur. (various references) | |
Finnish | yksintanssi (solo dancing), tanssinopettaja (dancing master), tanssikoulu (dancing-school), pölypyörre (dancing devil, dust devil, dust whirl, sand whirl), mennä tanssimaan (go dancing). (various references) | |
French | dansant. (various references) | |
Frisian | dûnsjen (ball, dance). (various references) | |
German | tanzend, Tanzen (Bob, dance, foot, hop, play, spin, step, to dance). (various references) | |
Greek | χωρός, χορόσ (choir, chorus, cotillion, dance, shindig), χορός, χορεύων, χορευτικόσ (terpsichorean). (various references) | |
Guarani | jerokýpe (at dancing). (various references) | |
Hebrew | הרקדה (organised dance), רקוד (dance, leap). (various references) | |
Hungarian | táncoló, táncolás (prancing), tánc (bop, dance, measure, reel, saltation, terpsichorean). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ajojing (rock style dancing). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | mumiqtuq (to dance). (various references) | |
Italian | danza (dance), ballo (ball, dance, Masquerade), ballante, ballando. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 舞踊 (dance), 舞踏. (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たちかた (cut, cutting), ダンシング , まい (counter for flat objects, dance, each, every, linen robe), ぶよう (dance), ぶとう. (various references) | |
Korean | 무용. (various references) | |
Macedonian | tancuvanje. (various references) | |
Manx | rinkey (dance), rinkagh, daunsin, daunsey (dance), daunsagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ancingday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | dançante, dança (dance, pas, saltation). (various references) | |
Provencal | dança. (various references) | |
Romanian | dansant, dans (dance, hop, saltation), joc (acting, dance, game, lap, lost motion, pastime, recreation, sport, sporting), care danseazã. (various references) | |
Ruanda | kuvyina. (various references) | |
Russian | танцы (hop), танцевать дансинг, прыганье стрелки прибора, пляска (fling). (various references) | |
Samoan | siva. (various references) | |
Scottish | dannsadh (v.n. dancing). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | igranje (personation, play, playing). (various references) | |
Spanish | de baile, movimiento en baile (dance), baile (bailiff, ball, dance, dancing party, discus, hop, hornpipe, reeve), bailando. (various references) | |
Swedish | dansande (prancing). (various references) | |
Turkish | dans etme, dans (dance, hop, orchestic), oynama (acting, falsification, fluctuation, hop, move, moving, performing, play, playing, showing). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стрибання (bouncing, leaping, vaulting), танці. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự nhảy múa (dance), sự khiêu vũ, rung rinh (tremulous, wavering), bập bềnh (libratory), đang nhảy múa. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 14, Verse 6 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Genesiwn de agomenwn tou hrwdou wrchsato h qugathr thV hrwdiadoV en tw mesw kai hresen tw hrwdh |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Die autem natalis Herodis saltavit filia Herodiadis in medio et placuit Herodi |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ða on Herodes gebyrd-dayge. tumbedeþær herodiadisse dohtor be-forem (sic) hym& hit likede herode. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | But in the dai of Heroudis birthe, the douytir of Herodias daunside in the myddil, and pleside Heroude. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | But when Herodes birth daye was come the doughter of Herodias daunsed before them and pleased Herod. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | But when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | But when Herod's birth-day was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But when Herod's birthday came, the daughter of Herodias was dancing before them, and Herod was pleased with her. |
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| Language | Matthew Chapter 14, Verse 6 |
| Cebuano | Apan sa pag-abut sa adlaw nga sumad sa natawhan ni Herodes, ang babayeng anak ni Herodias misayaw sa atubangan sa mga dinapit ug nakapahimuot kang Herodes, |
| Croatian | Na Herodov roðendan zaplesa kæi Herodijadina pred svima i svidje se Herodu. |
| Danish | Men da Herodes's Fødselsdag kom, dansede Herodias's Datter for dem; og hun behagede Herodes. |
| Dutch | Maar als de dag der geboorte van Herodes gehouden werd, danste de dochter van Herodias in het midden van hen, en zij behaagde aan Herodes. |
| Finnish | Mutta kun Herodeksen syntymäpäivä tuli, tanssi Herodiaan tytär heidän edessään, ja se miellytti Herodesta; |
| French | Or, lorsqu`on célébra l`anniversaire de la naissance d`Hérode, la fille d`Hérodias dansa au milieu des convives, et plut à Hérode, |
| German | Da aber Herodes seinen Jahrestag beging, da tanzte die Tochter der Herodias vor ihnen. Das gefiel Herodes wohl. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Pada waktu Herodes merayakan hari ulang tahunnya, anak perempuan Herodias menari di hadapan hadirin. Tariannya sangat menyenangkan hati Herodes, |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Tetapi pada perjamuan hari lahir Herodes, menarilah anak Herodiah yang perempuan itu di tengah orang, serta menyukakan hati baginda. |
| Manx Gaelic | Agh er y laa v'er ny reayll corrym rish y laa ruggyr Herod, ghaunse inneen Herodias ayns yn enish oc, as ghow Herod lane boggey j'ee. |
| Maori | Otira i te taenga ki te ra whanau o Herora, ka kanikani te tamahine a Heroriaha i waenganui i a ratou, a ka ahuareka a Herora. |
| Norwegian | Men da det var Herodes' fødselsdag, danset Herodias' datter for dem, og Herodes syntes om henne; |
| Portuguese | Festejando-se, porém, o dia natalício de Herodes, a filha de Herodias dançou no meio dos convivas, e agradou a Herodes, |
| Rumanian | Dar, cknd se prqznuia ziua nawterii lui Irod, fata Irodiadei a jucat knaintea oaspeyilor, wi a plqcut lui Irod. |
| Shuar | Tura akupin Erutis akiiniamu tsawantri jeamtai Nú Námpertin Jirutíasa nawantri Ashí ipiaamu pujuiniamunam jantsemamiayi. Túramtai Erutis shiir Enentáimtak |
| Swahili | Katika sherehe za sikukuu ya kuzaliwa kwake Herode, binti ya Herodia alicheza mbele ya wageni. Herode alifurahiwa, |
| Swedish | Men så kom Herodes' födelsedag. Då dansade Herodias' dotter inför dem; och hon behagade Herodes så mycket, |
| Uma | Ngkai ree, nto'u-na Herodes mpobabehi karamea mpokiwoi eo kaputua-na, ana' -na Herodias tobine modero' hi nyanyoa torata. Goe' lia-i Herodes mpohilo podero' -na. |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "dancing": outdancing, ropedancing. (additional references) | |
Words containing "dancing": ropedancings. (additional references) | |
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"Dancing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: danceing, danci, Dancienne, dancin, Dandin, dandini, danging, danican, daning, Danino, danken, danocrine, dansant, daunsinge, dencing, denking, denving. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dancing" (pronounced da"nsing) |
| 5 | -a" n s i ng | advancing, enhancing, financing, glancing, Lancing, prancing, refinancing, romancing. |
| 4 | -n s i ng | announcing, balancing, bouncing, commencing, condensing, conferencing, convincing, denouncing, dispensing, distancing, expensing, experiencing, fencing, freelancing, influencing, lensing, licensing, mensing, mincing, outdistancing, pouncing, pronouncing, rebalancing, referencing, renouncing, rinsing, sensing, sentencing, sequencing, silencing, teleconferencing, trouncing, unconvincing, videoconferencing, wincing. |
| 3 | -s i ng | annexing, accessing, acquiescing, addressing, affixing, amassing, assessing, basing, blessing, boxing, bracing, busing, bussing, buttressing, bypassing, canvassing, caressing, casing, ceasing, chasing, classing, coalescing, coaxing, coercing, collapsing, compressing, confessing, conversing, coursing, crisscrossing, crossing, cursing, cussing, debasing, decreasing, defacing, depressing, diagnosing, digressing, disbursing, discussing, dismissing, dispersing, displacing, distressing, divorcing, dosing, dousing, dowsing, dressing, eclipsing, effacing, embarrassing, embracing, encompassing, endorsing, enforcing, engrossing, enticing, erasing, expressing, facing, faxing, fixing, flexing, focusing, forcing, fundraising, fussing, gassing, greasing, grimacing, grossing, grousing, guessing, hairdressing, harassing, harnessing, hissing, horsing, icing, impressing, increasing, indexing, inducing, intermixing, introducing, invoicing, kissing, lapsing, leasing, loosing, massing, menacing, messing, missing, mixing, noticing, nursing, obsessing, oppressing, outpacing, outsourcing, overproducing, pacing, parsing, passing, perplexing, piecing, piercing, placing, policing, possessing, practicing, prejudicing, pressing, pricing, processing, producing, professing, progressing, promising, pulsing, racing, reassessing, recessing, redressing, reducing, refocusing, rehearsing, reimbursing, reinforcing, reintroducing, rejoicing, relapsing, relaxing, releasing, reminiscing, replacing, repressing, repricing, reprocessing, reproducing, repulsing, repurchasing, resurfacing, retracing, reversing, sacrificing, seducing, servicing, showcasing, slicing, sluicing, sourcing, spacing, spicing, splicing, sprucing, stressing, subleasing, suppressing, surfacing, surpassing, taxing, tossing, tracing, traipsing, traversing, trespassing, unceasing, underpricing, unpromising, vexing, voicing, waltzing, waxing, wissing, witnessing, xeroxing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-g-i-n-n" | |
-1 letter: caning. | |
-2 letters: acing, canid, nicad. | |
-3 letters: acid, agin, cadi, caid, cain, dang, ding, gadi, gain. | |
-4 letters: aid, ain, and, ani, cad, can, cig, dag, dig, din, gad, gan, gid, gin, inn, nag, nan. | |
-5 letters: ad, ag, ai, an, id, in, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-g-i-n-n" | |
+1 letter: candling, candying. | |
+2 letters: advancing, ascending, cadencing, cyaniding, deaconing, decanting. | |
+3 letters: absconding, androgenic, anteceding, canoodling, chagrinned, commanding, descanting, discanting, distancing, grandniece, indicating, jaundicing, outdancing, scandaling. | |
+4 letters: backhanding, calendaring, calendering, cannonading, chandelling, coattending, damascening, downscaling, fecundating, gasconading, grandnieces, handcuffing, handpicking, landscaping, nondogmatic, reascending, ropedancing, sandwiching, scandalling, syndicating, transducing, underacting, vindicating. | |
+5 letters: androgenetic, carbonadoing, commandingly, coordinating, crossbanding, deracinating, handcrafting, handicapping, incandescing, interchanged, ropedancings, scandalising, scandalizing, transcending, undercoating. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Usage Frequency 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Bible Trace 19. Derivations 20. Rhymes | 21. Anagrams 22. Bibliography |
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