Dancing vs. Disco — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Dancing and Disco
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Dancing
To move rhythmically usually to music, using prescribed or improvised steps and gestures.
Disco
Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the 1970s from the United States' urban nightlife scene. Its sound is typified by four-on-the-floor beats, syncopated basslines, string sections, horns, electric piano, synthesizers, and electric rhythm guitars.
Dancing
(Zoology) To perform a specialized set of movements to communicate chiefly with other members of the same species.
Disco
A discotheque.
Dancing
To move or leap about excitedly.
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Disco
Popular dance music, popularized in the late 1970s, characterized by strong repetitive bass rhythms.
Dancing
To bob up and down or move about rapidly
The leaves danced in the wind.
Disco
A style of dancing usually done to disco music.
Dancing
To appear to flash or twinkle
Eyes that danced with merriment.
Disco
To dance to disco music.
Dancing
(Informal) To speak or behave in an evasive or vacillating manner
Danced around the issue.
Disco
Clipping of discotheque, a nightclub for dancing.
Dancing
To engage in or perform (a dance).
Disco
A genre of dance music that was popular in the 1970s, characterized by elements of soul music with a strong Latin-American beat and often accompanied by pulsating lights.
Dancing
To lead (someone) in a dance.
Disco
Discovery (pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered)
You don't need to worry about these details at the complaint stage, we can get them in disco.
Dancing
To cause to move up and down quickly or lightly
Danced the child on her knee.
Disco
Discovery (materials revealed to the opposing party during the pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered)
Has the disco come in from the defendants yet? We sent them requests almost six weeks ago.
Dancing
A series of motions and steps, such as the waltz or tango, usually performed to music.
Disco
(intransitive) To dance disco-style dances.
Dancing
The act or an instance of dancing
May I have this dance?.
Disco
(intransitive) To go to discotheques.
Dancing
The music composed or played for a certain kind of dance or for a particular dance.
Disco
A public dance hall for dancing to recorded popular music
Dancing
The art of dancing
Studied dance in college.
Dancing
A party or gathering of people for dancing.
Dancing
(Zoology) An act of communication by dancing
A peacock's courtship dance.
Dancing
The activity of taking part in a dance.
Dancing
(historical) A dance club in France.
Dancing
Present participle of dance
Dancing
From Dance.
Dancing
Taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music
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