trance
IPA: trˈæns
noun
- (countable) A dazed or unconscious condition.
- (countable) A state of awareness, concentration, or focus that filters experience and information (for example, a state of meditation or possession by some being).
- (countable, psychology) A state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow attention; particularly one induced by hypnosis.
- (obsolete outside Britain, dialectal) A tedious journey.
- (uncountable, music) Short for trance music (“genre of electronic dance music”). [(music) A style of dance music with fast beats, short melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and down throughout a track, often played in nightclubs.]
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) be in a trance; to entrance.
- (transitive, rare) To create in or via a trance.
- (obsolete outside Britain, dialectal, intransitive) To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge.
- (obsolete outside Britain, dialectal, intransitive) To pass across or over; to traverse.
- (obsolete outside Britain, dialectal, intransitive) To travel quickly over a long distance.
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Examples of "trance" in Sentences
- He used to be in trance most of the time.
- The Monk places Julie in a hypnotic trance.
- The first is induction of a hypnotic trance.
- A phobic reation to a spider is also a trance.
- Among the influences in the song include trance.
- The patterns become hypnotic and trance inducing.
- Maria was living in what I call the trance of fear.
- It is the induction of trance through the sense of sight.
- It is the induction of trance through the sense of hearing.
- A large collection of links to videos of people in trance states.
- The beats are rougher and the trance element is essentially missing.
- Sensory modality is the channel or conduit for the induction of the trance.
- However, Stangl first confessed on Austrian state television that he faked the feat in what he described as a trance-like state brought on by fear of failure.
- Power of Music, the people's temporary trance is hardly stern but it is a civic event or even a civic religion: they stand apart, together, in a concentrated present.
- Another bonus, and I hope I won't get misunderstood: while you're in trance, your avie has the most stupid expression ever, like she'll start drooling in just a second ...
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- If I have a chance to meet him, I will tell him that basically I love inexplicable true-event based stories and his stories has successfully left my mind in trance since they seem real but stand beyond it, which makes me wanting to read more and more of his works.
- Canadian rock art interested us because of a traditional Algonkian Indian belief that manitous – spirits – lived inside rocks and cliff-faces, and that shamans in trance could enter the rock surfaces and meet with them in order to exchange tobacco offerings for supernatural power, usually referred to as “rock medicine”.
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