Disco vs. Funk — What's the Difference?

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.

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B). It de-emphasizes melody and chord progressions and focuses on a strong rhythmic groove of a bassline played by an electric bassist and a drum part played by a percussionist, often at slower tempos than other popular music.

A discotheque.

A state of great fear or panic

Popular dance music, popularized in the late 1970s, characterized by strong repetitive bass rhythms.

A coward

A style of dancing usually done to disco music.

A style of popular dance music of US black origin, based on elements of blues and soul and having a strong rhythm that typically accentuates the first beat in the bar

To dance to disco music.

A strong musty smell of sweat or tobacco

Clipping of discotheque, a nightclub for dancing.

Avoid (something) out of fear

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.

Give music elements of funk

Discovery (pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered)

A strong, usually unpleasant smell; reek.

Discovery (materials revealed to the opposing party during the pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered)

A hearty or earthy quality appreciated in music such as jazz or soul.

(intransitive) To dance disco-style dances.

A type of popular music combining elements of jazz, blues, and soul and characterized by syncopated rhythm and a heavy, repetitive bassline.

(intransitive) To go to discotheques.

(Slang) An unsophisticated quality or atmosphere of a region or locality

A public dance hall for dancing to recorded popular music

A state of cowardly fright; a panic.

A state of severe depression.

A cowardly, fearful person.

To shrink from in fright or dread.

To be afraid of.

To shrink in fright.

(countable) Foul or unpleasant smell, especially body odor.

A style of music derived from 1960s soul music, with elements of rock and other styles, characterized by a prominent bass guitar, dance-friendly sound, a strong emphasis on the downbeat, and much syncopation.

(obsolete) Touchwood, punk, tinder.

(countable) Mental depression.

(uncountable) A state of fear or panic, especially cowardly.

(countable) One who fears or panics; a coward.

(intransitive) To emit an offensive smell; to stink.

(transitive) To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.

(ambitransitive) To shrink from, or avoid something because of fear.

(transitive) To frighten; to cause to flinch.

An offensive smell; a stench.

One who funks; a shirk; a coward.

A state of fear.

A mildly depressed state of mind; - often used in the phrase blue funk.

An earthy, seemingly unsophisticated style of jazz music having elements of black American blues and gospel.

A shrinking back through fear.

To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.

To funk at; to flinch at; to shrink from (a thing or person); as, to funk a task.

To frighten; to cause to flinch.

To emit an offensive smell; to stink.

To be frightened, and shrink back; to flinch; as, to funk at the edge of a precipice.

A state of nervous depression;

United States biochemist (born in Poland) who showed that several diseases were caused by dietary deficiencies and who coined the term `vitamin' for the chemicals involved (1884-1967)

Draw back, as with fear or pain;