different between dance vs caper

English

Alternative forms

• daunce (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English dauncen, daunsen, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman dauncer, dancer (“to dance”) (compare Old French dancier), from Frankish *þans?n (“to draw, pull, stretch out, gesture”) (compare Old High German dans?n (“to draw, pull”)), from Proto-West Germanic *þans?n, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tens- (“to stretch, pull”). Replaced Old English sealtian (“to dance”) borrowed from Latin salt?re (“to leap, dance”). More at thin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dæns/
  • (æ-tensing) IPA^(key): [d??ns], [de?ns]
  • (Northern England, Ireland) IPA^(key): [dæns], [dans], [däns]
  • (General Australian) IPA^(key): [dæ?ns], IPA^(key): [d??ns]
• IPA^(key): /d??ns/
  • (Received Pronunciation, Cockney, Estuary, Jamaica) IPA^(key): [d??ns]
  • (Cultivated Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): [dä?ns]
• Rhymes: -??ns, -æns

Noun

dance (countable and uncountable, plural dances)

1. A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction.

   • "I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places. […]"

2. A social gathering where dancing is the main activity.

   • "I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places. […]"

3. (uncountable) The art, profession, and study of dancing.
4. (uncountable) A genre of modern music characterised by sampled beats, repetitive rhythms and few lyrics.
5. A piece of music with a particular dance rhythm.
6. (figuratively) A battle of wits, especially one commonly fought between two rivals.

   So how much longer are we gonna do this dance?

7. (figuratively, dated) Any strenuous or difficult movement, action, or task.
8. (heraldry) 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.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:dance

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

dance (third-person singular simple present dances, present participle dancing, simple past and past participle danced)

1. (intransitive) To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music.

2. (intransitive) To leap or move lightly and rapidly.
3. (transitive) To perform the steps to.

4. (transitive) To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about.
5. (figuratively, euphemistic) To make love or have sex.

Synonyms

• (move with rhythmic steps or movements): throw shapes
• (to engage in sexual intercourse): do the deed, get some, have sex; see also Thesaurus:copulate

Derived terms

• dance attendance
• dancer
• dance with the one that brought you
• dirty dance
• line dance

Descendants

• ? Scottish Gaelic: danns
• ? Zulu: dansa

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Dances

References

Further reading

• Dance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• dance on Wikibooks.Wikibooks

Anagrams

• Caden, Decan, acned, caned, decan

French

Etymology

From English dance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?ns/

Noun

dance f (uncountable)

1. dance music

Galician

Verb

dance

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of danzar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of danzar

Middle French

Etymology

Old French dance.

Noun

dance f (plural dances)

1. dance

Descendants

• French: danse

Old French

Etymology

From Germanic, see English dance, French danse

Noun

dance f (oblique plural dances, nominative singular dance, nominative plural dances)

1. dance

Portuguese

Verb

dance

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of dançar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of dançar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of dançar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of dançar

References

• “dance” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
• “dance” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2021.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /?dan?e/, [?d?ãn?.?e]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /?danse/, [?d?ãn.se]

Verb

dance

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of danzar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of danzar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of danzar.

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ke?p?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ke?p?/
• Rhymes: -e?p?(?)
• Hyphenation: ca?per

Etymology 1

Clipping of capriole.

Noun

caper (plural capers)

1. A playful leap or jump.
2. A jump while dancing.
3. A prank or practical joke.
4. (usually in plural) Playful behaviour.
5. (figuratively) A crime, especially an elaborate heist, or a narrative about such a crime.

Derived terms

• cut a caper

Related terms

• cab
• caprine

Translations

Verb

caper (third-person singular simple present capers, present participle capering, simple past and past participle capered)

1. To leap or jump about in a sprightly or playful manner.
2. To jump as part of a dance.
3. To engage in playful behaviour.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Dutch kaper.

Noun

caper (plural capers)

1. A vessel formerly used by the Dutch; privateer.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Latin capparis, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kápparis).

Noun

caper (plural capers)

1. The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), which is pickled and eaten.
2. A plant of the genus Capparis.

   Synonyms: caper bush, caper tree, caperberry

Derived terms

• caperberry

Translations

Further reading

• caper on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 4

Shortening of capercaillie.

Noun

caper (plural capers)

1. (Scotland) The capercaillie.

Translations

Anagrams

• Pacer, crape, pacer, recap

French

Etymology

From English cap + -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.pe/

Verb

caper

1. (finance) to cap (set a limit to)
2. (sports) to cap (award a player a cap for playing for their national team)

Conjugation

Indonesian

Etymology

From blend of cari (“seeking”) +? perhatian (“attention”), from calque of English attention-seeking.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t??ap?r]
• Hyphenation: ca?pêr

Adjective

capêr (plural caper-caper)

1. (colloquial, acronym) attention-seeking.

Further reading

• “caper” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kapros, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros (“buck, he-goat”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ka.per/, [?käp?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ka.per/, [?k??p?r]

Noun

caper m (genitive capr?); second declension

1. a male goat, billy goat

   Synonym: hircus

2. vocative singular of caper

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

Related terms

Descendants

References

• caper in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• caper in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• caper in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• caper in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• caper in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin capere.

Verb

caper

1. to seize

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

caper m

1. indefinite plural of cape