See dance to a different tune in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for dance to a different tune meaning in English (3.3kB)
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "dances to a different tune",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "dancing to a different tune",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "danced to a different tune",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "danced to a different tune",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "*"
},
"expansion": "dance to a different tune (third-person singular simple present dances to a different tune, present participle dancing to a different tune, simple past and past participle danced to a different tune)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "dance to a new tune"
}
],
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2004, Rolf A. F. Witzsche, Flight Without Limits, page 28",
"text": "You can choose to override these laws, you can change the game, you can dance to a different tune.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Cornelius J. Troost, Apes Or Angels?: Darwin, Dover, Human Nature, and Race, page ix",
"text": "The single event that forced Christianity to dance to a different tune was Darwin's great 1859 book called On the Origin of Species.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, E.V. Thompson, Dream Traders",
"text": "'We'll all be dancing to a different tune before long.' Killian somehow managed to produce the semblance of a smile. 'When trading in opium becomes legal I doubt if Gemmell Company will be lagging behind.'",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of dance to a new tune"
],
"id": "en-dance_to_a_different_tune-en-verb-HrF7h5eZ",
"links": [
[
"dance to a new tune",
"dance to a new tune#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "12 78 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2011, Scott Lyall, Margery Palmer McCulloch, The Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid, page 128",
"text": "In one way the book is a straightforward defence of eccentricity, a plea for the importance of valuing individuals who choose to dance to a different tune.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, anonymous author, The Erotic Memoirs of a Lusty Victorian Rake: Volume 2",
"text": "Whether they walk or take a cab, they arrive at exactly the right time to bag a window seat and settle themselves down in comfort for their trip. Alas, I dance to a different tune. I have been catching trains all my life and throughout this time I have always been afraid of missing them.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Jen Minkman, The Space In Between: A YA Paranormal Romance, page 29",
"text": "Is it a crime to work like that? Is it so hard to accept that some people dance to a different tune?!",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To behave differently; to march to the beat of a different drummer."
],
"id": "en-dance_to_a_different_tune-en-verb-3lOd~sOh",
"links": [
[
"march to the beat of a different drummer",
"march to the beat of a different drummer"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dance, different, tune."
],
"id": "en-dance_to_a_different_tune-en-verb-MA72OgKP",
"links": [
[
"dance",
"dance#English"
],
[
"different",
"different#English"
],
[
"tune",
"tune#English"
]
]
}
],
"word": "dance to a different tune"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English verbs"
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "dances to a different tune",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "dancing to a different tune",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "danced to a different tune",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "danced to a different tune",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "*"
},
"expansion": "dance to a different tune (third-person singular simple present dances to a different tune, present participle dancing to a different tune, simple past and past participle danced to a different tune)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "dance to a new tune"
}
],
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2004, Rolf A. F. Witzsche, Flight Without Limits, page 28",
"text": "You can choose to override these laws, you can change the game, you can dance to a different tune.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Cornelius J. Troost, Apes Or Angels?: Darwin, Dover, Human Nature, and Race, page ix",
"text": "The single event that forced Christianity to dance to a different tune was Darwin's great 1859 book called On the Origin of Species.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, E.V. Thompson, Dream Traders",
"text": "'We'll all be dancing to a different tune before long.' Killian somehow managed to produce the semblance of a smile. 'When trading in opium becomes legal I doubt if Gemmell Company will be lagging behind.'",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of dance to a new tune"
],
"links": [
[
"dance to a new tune",
"dance to a new tune#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2011, Scott Lyall, Margery Palmer McCulloch, The Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid, page 128",
"text": "In one way the book is a straightforward defence of eccentricity, a plea for the importance of valuing individuals who choose to dance to a different tune.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, anonymous author, The Erotic Memoirs of a Lusty Victorian Rake: Volume 2",
"text": "Whether they walk or take a cab, they arrive at exactly the right time to bag a window seat and settle themselves down in comfort for their trip. Alas, I dance to a different tune. I have been catching trains all my life and throughout this time I have always been afraid of missing them.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Jen Minkman, The Space In Between: A YA Paranormal Romance, page 29",
"text": "Is it a crime to work like that? Is it so hard to accept that some people dance to a different tune?!",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To behave differently; to march to the beat of a different drummer."
],
"links": [
[
"march to the beat of a different drummer",
"march to the beat of a different drummer"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dance, different, tune."
],
"links": [
[
"dance",
"dance#English"
],
[
"different",
"different#English"
],
[
"tune",
"tune#English"
]
]
}
],
"word": "dance to a different tune"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.