trance
part of speech
noun (a trance, trances)
meaning for a pupil
1) A state like being half asleep or dreaming, when you are awake but do not notice what is around you. tree →
2) A state when someone is deeply lost in thought, music or wonder and does not hear you. tree →
3) (also trance music) A kind of fast electronic dance music. tree →
sense in the lessons
In The Wind in the Willows («The Piper at the Gates of Dawn») the Rat and the Mole hear wonderful piping and fall into a kind of trance of awe before the god Pan; then they forget it. In stories hypnotists and magicians put people «into a trance». In everyday life we say «He's in a trance» about someone daydreaming. Phrases: «in a trance», «fall into a trance».
examples
- She stared at the fire as if in a trance. tree →
- The music put the animals into a kind of trance. tree →
- «Wake up! You're in a trance!» laughed my friend. tree →
- The hypnotist claimed he could put people in a trance. tree →
- The Rat walked on in a trance, listening to the distant piping. tree →
- My brother watches cartoons like he's in a trance. tree →
- Around it he saw several knights sitting in a trance; then he pulled off their rings and put them on his own fingers. tree →
note
Countable. Related: entrance (verb «en-TRANCE» = to fill with wonder) is spelled like «entrance» (a way in) but said differently.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «trance» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.