Sashay vs. Dance — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Sashay and Dance
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Sashay
Walk in an ostentatious yet casual manner, typically with exaggerated movements of the hips and shoulders
Louise was sashaying along in a long black satin dress
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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.
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Sashay
Perform the sashay
Ladies center, men sashay, left allemande
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Dance
To move rhythmically usually to music, using prescribed or improvised steps and gestures.
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Sashay
(in American square dancing) a figure in which partners circle each other by taking sideways steps
Roll away with a half sashay, then face your original partner
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Dance
(Zoology) To perform a specialized set of movements to communicate chiefly with other members of the same species.
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Sashay
To walk or proceed, especially in an easy or casual manner.
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Dance
To move or leap about excitedly.
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Sashay
To strut or flounce in a showy manner
Sashaying around the dinner party in his fancy new clothes.
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Dance
To bob up and down or move about rapidly
The leaves danced in the wind.
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Sashay
To perform the chassé in dancing.
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Dance
To appear to flash or twinkle
Eyes that danced with merriment.
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Sashay
To move in a sideways manner.
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Dance
(Informal) To speak or behave in an evasive or vacillating manner
Danced around the issue.
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Sashay
A chassé.
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Dance
To engage in or perform (a dance).
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Sashay
An excursion; an outing.
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Dance
To lead (someone) in a dance.
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Sashay
A figure in square dancing in which partners circle each other by taking sideways steps.
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Dance
To cause to move up and down quickly or lightly
Danced the child on her knee.
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Sashay
A chassé.
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Dance
A series of motions and steps, such as the waltz or tango, usually performed to music.
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Sashay
A sequence of sideways steps in a circle in square dancing.
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Dance
The act or an instance of dancing
May I have this dance?.
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Sashay
(intransitive) To walk casually, showily or in a flirty manner; to strut, swagger or flounce.
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Dance
The music composed or played for a certain kind of dance or for a particular dance.
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Sashay
(intransitive) To chassé when dancing.
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Dance
The art of dancing
Studied dance in college.
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Sashay
(intransitive) To move sideways.
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Dance
A party or gathering of people for dancing.
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Sashay
A square dance figure; partners circle each other taking sideways steps
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Dance
(Zoology) An act of communication by dancing
A peacock's courtship dance.
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Sashay
(ballet) quick gliding steps with one foot always leading
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Dance
A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction.
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Sashay
A journey taken for pleasure;
Many summer excursions to the shore
It was merely a pleasure trip
After cautious sashays into the field
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Dance
A social gathering where dancing is the main activity.
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Sashay
Move sideways
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Dance
(uncountable) The art, profession, and study of dancing.
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Sashay
To walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others;
He struts around like a rooster in a hen house
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Dance
(uncountable) A genre of modern music characterised by sampled beats, repetitive rhythms and few lyrics.
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Sashay
Perform a chasse step, in ballet
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Dance
A piece of music with a particular dance rhythm.
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Dance
(figurative) A battle of wits, especially one commonly fought between two rivals.
So how much longer are we gonna do this dance?
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Dance
Any strenuous or difficult movement, action, or task.
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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.
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Dance
(apiology) A repetitive movement used in communication between worker honey bees.
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Dance
The death throes of a hanged person.
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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!
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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.
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Dance
(transitive) To perform the steps to.
Have you ever danced the tango?
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Dance
(transitive) To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about.
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Dance
To make love or have sex.
You make me feel like dancing.
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Dance
To make a repetitive movement in order to communicate to other worker honey bees.
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Dance
To kick and convulse from the effects of being hanged.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Dance
An artistic form of nonverbal communication
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Dance
A party of people assembled for dancing
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Dance
Taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music
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Dance
A party for social dancing
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Dance
Move in a graceful and rhythmical way;
The young girl danced into the room
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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
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Dance
Skip, leap, or move up and down or sideways;
Dancing flames
The children danced with joy
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