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.
- It is the induction of trance through the sense of sight.
- It is the induction of trance through the sense of hearing.
- The beats are rougher and the trance element is essentially missing.
- Sensory modality is the channel or conduit for the induction of the trance.