different between dancing vs lancing

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?d??n.s??/, /?dæn.s??/
• Rhymes: -??ns??, -æns??

Noun

dancing (countable and uncountable, plural dancings)

1. The activity of taking part in a dance.
2. (historical) A dance club in France.
   • 2001, William A. Shack, Harlem in Montmartre: A Paris Jazz Story Between the Great Wars

     New dancings pervaded the length and breadth of Montmartre in order to suit the taste of foreign patrons.

   • 2003, Jeffrey H. Jackson, Making Jazz French: Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris (page 44)

     Different dancings also attracted different crowds. Indeed, the diversity of dancers throughout the city makes drawing a detailed portrait of them difficult.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

dancing

1. present participle of dance

Italian

Etymology

From English.

Noun

dancing m (invariable)

1. dance hall

Spanish

Etymology

From English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /?dan?in/, [?d?ãn?.??n]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /?dansin/, [?d?ãn.s?n]

Noun

dancing m (plural dancings)

1. dance hall

English

Verb

lancing

1. present participle of lance

Noun

lancing (plural lancings)

1. The act by which something is lanced.
   • 2011, Paul Oppenheimer, Machiavelli: A Life Beyond Ideology (page 46)

     Bernardo's physicians treated their lawyer-patient in the ordinary ignorant ways, with debilitating bleedings, plus helpful lancings of the abscessed boils.

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