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Dance vs. Maypole — What's the Difference?

Dance vs. Maypole — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Dance and Maypole

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Dance

Dance is a performing art form consisting of sequences of movement, either improvised or purposefully selected. This movement has aesthetic and often symbolic value.

Maypole

A maypole is a tall wooden pole erected as a part of various European folk festivals, around which a maypole dance often takes place. The festivals may occur on 1 May or Pentecost (Whitsun), although in some countries it is instead erected at Midsummer (20–26 June).

Dance

To move rhythmically usually to music, using prescribed or improvised steps and gestures.

Maypole

A pole decorated with streamers that those celebrating May Day hold while dancing.

Dance

(Zoology) To perform a specialized set of movements to communicate chiefly with other members of the same species.
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Maypole

A pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day.

Dance

To move or leap about excitedly.

Maypole

(idiomatic) A very tall girl or young lady.

Dance

To bob up and down or move about rapidly
The leaves danced in the wind.

Maypole

(ornithology) A maypole-like structure of sticks placed about a sapling in the bowers of certain species of bowerbird.

Dance

To appear to flash or twinkle
Eyes that danced with merriment.

Maypole

(euphemistic) A penis, especially a large one.

Dance

(Informal) To speak or behave in an evasive or vacillating manner
Danced around the issue.

Maypole

A tall pole erected in an open place and wreathed with flowers, about which the rustic May-day sports were had.

Dance

To engage in or perform (a dance).

Maypole

A vertical pole or post decorated with streamers that can be held by dancers celebrating May Day

Dance

To lead (someone) in a dance.

Dance

To cause to move up and down quickly or lightly
Danced the child on her knee.

Dance

A series of motions and steps, such as the waltz or tango, usually performed to music.

Dance

The act or an instance of dancing
May I have this dance?.

Dance

The music composed or played for a certain kind of dance or for a particular dance.

Dance

The art of dancing
Studied dance in college.

Dance

A party or gathering of people for dancing.

Dance

(Zoology) An act of communication by dancing
A peacock's courtship dance.

Dance

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

Dance

A social gathering where dancing is the main activity.

Dance

(uncountable) The art, profession, and study of dancing.

Dance

(uncountable) A genre of modern music characterised by sampled beats, repetitive rhythms and few lyrics.

Dance

A piece of music with a particular dance rhythm.

Dance

(figurative) A battle of wits, especially one commonly fought between two rivals.
So how much longer are we gonna do this dance?

Dance

Any strenuous or difficult movement, action, or task.

Dance

(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.

Dance

(apiology) A repetitive movement used in communication between worker honey bees.

Dance

The death throes of a hanged person.

Dance

(intransitive) To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music.
I danced with her all night long.
These drum beats are making me dance!

Dance

(intransitive) To leap or move lightly and rapidly.
His eyes danced with pleasure as he spoke.
She accused her political opponent of dancing around the issue instead of confronting it.

Dance

(transitive) To perform the steps to.
Have you ever danced the tango?

Dance

(transitive) To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about.

Dance

To make love or have sex.
You make me feel like dancing.

Dance

To make a repetitive movement in order to communicate to other worker honey bees.

Dance

To kick and convulse from the effects of being hanged.

Dance

To move with measured steps, or to a musical accompaniment; to go through, either alone or in company with others, with a regulated succession of movements, (commonly) to the sound of music; to trip or leap rhythmically.
Jack shall pipe and Gill shall dance.
Good shepherd, what fair swain is thisWhich dances with your daughter?

Dance

To move nimbly or merrily; to express pleasure by motion; to caper; to frisk; to skip about.
Then, 'tis time to dance off.
More dances my rapt heartThan when I first my wedded mistress saw.
Shadows in the glassy waters dance.
Where rivulets dance their wayward round.

Dance

To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about, or up and down; to dandle.
To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind.
Thy grandsire loved thee well;Many a time he danced thee on his knee.
A man of his place, and so near our favor,To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasure.

Dance

The leaping, tripping, or measured stepping of one who dances; an amusement, in which the movements of the persons are regulated by art, in figures and in accord with music.

Dance

A tune by which dancing is regulated, as the minuet, the waltz, the cotillon, etc.
Of remedies of love she knew parchanceFor of that art she couth the olde dance.

Dance

An artistic form of nonverbal communication

Dance

A party of people assembled for dancing

Dance

Taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music

Dance

A party for social dancing

Dance

Move in a graceful and rhythmical way;
The young girl danced into the room

Dance

Move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance;
My husband and I like to dance at home to the radio

Dance

Skip, leap, or move up and down or sideways;
Dancing flames
The children danced with joy

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