different between dance vs flounce

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

Etymology

Probably of North Germanic origin, from Norwegian flunsa (“hurry”), perhaps ultimately imitative. Or, perhaps formed on the pattern of pounce, bounce.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fla?ns/
• Rhymes: -a?ns

Verb

flounce (third-person singular simple present flounces, present participle flouncing, simple past and past participle flounced)

1. To move in an exaggerated, bouncy manner.
2. (archaic) To flounder; to make spastic motions.
   • a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, Of Contentment (sermon)

     To flutter and flounce will do nothing but batter and bruise us.

   • 1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses

     With his broad fins and forky tail he laves / The rising surge, and flounces in the waves.

3. To decorate with a flounce.
4. To depart in a haughty, dramatic way that draws attention to oneself.

Translations

Noun

flounce (plural flounces)

1. (sewing) A strip of decorative material, usually pleated, attached along one edge; a ruffle.^W

   • Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […]  Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.

2. The act of flouncing.

Derived terms

• flouncy

Translations

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.