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Dance Floor

Definition: Dance Floor

Dance Floor

Noun

1. A bare floor polished for dancing.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

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Crosswords: Dance Floor

Specialty definitions using "dance floor": Floor PunchMANAGER, RECREATION ESTABLISHMENT. (references)

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Modern Usage: Dance Floor

DomainUsage

Lyrics

So take me down to your dance floor ("A Song For You"; performing artist: The Drifters)

The state where ya never find a dance floor empty. ("California Love"; performing artist: 2 PAC)

Just get up on the dance floor ("Blow Your Mind"; performing artist: Baha Men)

Let me freak ya on the dance floor ("Feelin' So Good"; performing artist: Jennifer Lopez)

It's called a dance floor, and here's what it's for, so ("Vogue"; performing artist: Madonna)

Movie/TV Titles

Live From Shiva's Dance Floor (2003)

Dance Floor (2001)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Dance Floor

DomainTitle

Books

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Dance Floor

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Use in Literature: Dance Floor

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

They moved toward the dance floor and took their positions quietly on the edge of the crowd.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dance Floor

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dance floor

180

portable dance floor

73

murder on the dance floor

46

dance floor rental

25

blood on the dance floor

18

no parking on the dance floor

16

dance floor no pantie

13

dance floor information super

12

dance floor lighted

10

dance floor marley

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Dance Floor

Language Translations for "dance floor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

taneèní parket. (various references)

   

German

  

Tanzfläche. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πίστα (track). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

踊り (dance hall, landing). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

おどりば (dance hall, landing). (various references)

   

Papago

  

wailakud. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

anceday oorflay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

pista de dança. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pista de baile. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

dansgolv, dansbana. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Dance Floor

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-f-l-n-o-o-r"

-2 letters: canoodle, colander, condoler, conelrad, falconer, foreland.

-3 letters: caldron, candler, cardoon, caroled, celadon, colored, condole, corneal, cornfed, coronae, coronal, coronel, crooned, decolor, flooder, floored, fondler, fordone, ladrone, lardoon, onefold, reflood.

-4 letters: acnode, candle, candor, canoed, cedarn, cloned, cloner, coaled, coaler, colder, colead, colone, condor, confer, cooled, cooler, cordon, cornea, corned, cornel, corona, cradle, craned, credal, dancer, darnel, deacon, enfold, falcon, farced, fardel, fedora, flacon, flared, florae, foaled, folder, fonder, fondle, fooled, forced, foredo, ladron, lanced, lancer, lander, lardon, loader, loafed, loafer, loaned, loaner, locoed, nacred, noodle, oracle, ordeal, racoon, reclad, recoal, refold, reload, reloan, roadeo, rolfed, rondel, roofed.

-5 letters: acned, acold, acorn, acred, adore, adorn, afore, alder, alone, aloof, anode, anole, arced, cadre, caned, caner, canoe, cared, carle, carol, cedar, ceorl, clade, claro, clean, clear, clone, coden, coder, codon, coled, colon, color, condo, coned, cooed, cooer, coral, cored, crane, credo, crone, croon, dance, decaf, decal, decor, denar, dolce, dolor, donor, drone, drool, eland, enrol, faced, facer, fader, farce, fared, farle, fecal, felon, feral, flare, flood, floor, flora, focal, force, fordo, franc, frena, frond, laced, lacer, laden, lader, lance, learn, loden, loner, looed, loofa, loran, nacre, naled, narco, nerol, nodal, oared, ocean, ocrea, odeon, olden, older, oread, raced, racon, radon, rance, recon, redan, redon, renal, rodeo, rondo.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Dance Floor


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 61 6E 63 65      46 6C 6F 6F 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101 00100000 01000110 01101100 01101111 01101111 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#97 &#110 &#99 &#101 &#32 &#70 &#108 &#111 &#111 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0061 006E 0063 0065      0046 006C 006F 006F 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

386780697124078818184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Quotations: Fiction
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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