Adagio vs. Ballet — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Adagio and Ballet
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Adagio
In a slow tempo, usually considered to be slower than andante but faster than larghetto. Used chiefly as a direction.
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Ballet
Ballet (French: [balɛ]) is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread and highly technical form of dance with its own vocabulary.
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Adagio
(Music) A slow passage, movement, or work, especially one using adagio as the direction.
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Ballet
A classical dance form characterized by grace and precision of movement and by elaborate formal gestures, steps, and poses.
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Adagio
A section of a pas de deux in which the ballerina and her partner perform steps requiring lyricism and great skill in lifting, balancing, and turning.
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Ballet
A theatrical presentation of group or solo dancing to a musical accompaniment, usually with costume and scenic effects, conveying a story or theme.
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Adagio
A succession of slow, fluid movements performed as an exercise in ballet.
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Ballet
A musical composition written or used for this dance form.
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Adagio
(music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played rather slowly, leisurely and gracefully.
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Ballet
A classical form of dance.
A classically-trained ballet dancer
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Adagio
(music) A passage having this mark.
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Ballet
A theatrical presentation of such dancing, usually with music, sometimes in the form of a story.
Let's go to the ballet in the theatre tomorrow!
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Adagio
(dance) A male-female duet or mixed trio ballet displaying demanding balance, spins and/or lifts.
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Ballet
The company of persons who perform this dance.
Zara joined the ballet at the age of 14.
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Adagio
(music) Played rather slowly.
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Ballet
(music) A light part song, frequently with a fa-la-la chorus, common among Elizabethan and Italian Renaissance composers.
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Adagio
(music) Describing a passage having this mark.
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Ballet
A (small) ball i.e. roundel on a coat of arms, called a bezant, plate, etc., according to colour.
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Adagio
Slow; slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. When repeated, adagio, adagio, it directs the movement to be very slow.
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Ballet
(figurative) Any intricate series of operations involving coordination between individuals.
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Adagio
A piece of music in adagio time; a slow movement; as, an adagio of Haydn.
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Ballet
To perform an action reminiscent of ballet dancing.
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Adagio
(music) a composition played in adagio tempo (slowly and gracefully);
They played the adagio too quickly
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Ballet
An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment, or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women. Sometimes, a scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing.
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Adagio
A slow section of a pas de deux requiring great skill and strength by the dancers
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Ballet
The company of persons who perform the ballet.
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Adagio
(of tempo) leisurely
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Ballet
A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa la burden or chorus, - most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers; - also spelled ballett.
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Adagio
Slowly;
Here you must play adagio
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Ballet
A bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color.
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Ballet
A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers
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Ballet
Music written for a ballet
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