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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD GANCE

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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF GANCE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GANCE

noun
adjective
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adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Gance is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GANCE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Gance

Abel Gance

Abel Gance was a French film director and producer, writer and actor. He is best known for three major silent films: J'accuse, La Roue, and the monumental Napoléon.

Definition of Gance in the English dictionary

The definition of Gance in the dictionary is Abel. 1889–1981, French film director, whose works include J'accuse and Napoléon, which introduced the split-screen technique.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GANCE

Gand
Ganda
gander
ganderism
Gandhi
Gandhi cap
Gandhian
Gandhiism
Gandhism
gandy dancer
Gandzha
gane
ganef
Ganesh
ganev
gang
Gang of Four

WORDS THAT END LIKE GANCE

advance
appearance
assistance
balance
chance
compliance
dance
distance
enhance
finance
France
imbalance
importance
insurance
maintenance
on the chance
performance
relevance
romance
stand a chance

Synonyms and antonyms of Gance in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Gance» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GANCE

Find out the translation of Gance to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Gance from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Gance» in English.

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冈斯
1,325 millions of speakers

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Gance
570 millions of speakers

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Gance
510 millions of speakers

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Gance
380 millions of speakers
ar

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Gance
280 millions of speakers

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Ганс
278 millions of speakers

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Gance
270 millions of speakers

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Gance
260 millions of speakers

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Gance
220 millions of speakers

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Gance
190 millions of speakers

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Gance
180 millions of speakers

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ガンス
130 millions of speakers

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Gance
85 millions of speakers

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Gance
85 millions of speakers
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Gance
80 millions of speakers

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Gance
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गान्स
75 millions of speakers

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Gance
70 millions of speakers

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Gance
65 millions of speakers

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Gance
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Ганс
40 millions of speakers

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Gance
30 millions of speakers
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Gance
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Gance
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Gance
10 millions of speakers
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Gance
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Gance

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GANCE»

The term «Gance» is normally little used and occupies the 111.676 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GANCE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Gance

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GANCE»

Discover the use of Gance in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Gance and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Jack Gance
Traces the fortunes of Jack Gance--a man on the rise in American politics--as he moves from Chicago pollster to Senator in Washington, D.C
‎1997
2
Set Free: A Miracle Remembered
This is the story of how a young man with a bright future ahead of him got caught up in the drug scene as a way to deal with the unsolved pain of his childhood years.
Michael Gance, 2012
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Victory and Fulfillment: Quantum Remedy Power
The author, Leia Gance, Ph.D., informs readers "how to transcend your life" into the Divine splendor of a "there's-nothing-you-can't-do" reality.
Leia Gance, Leia Gance, Ph.d., 2009
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French Film Theory and Criticism: 1907-1929
See, also, Moussinac's reviews of Gance's Napoleon (1927), Clair's Un Chapeau de paille d'ltalie (1928), Dreyer's la Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928), and Feyder's Therese Raquin (1928), collected in Moussinac, Panora- mique du cinema ...
‎1993
5
The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film
(France, Kaplan, 1962) Abel Gance: Yesterday and Tomorrow is the dubbed version of Abel Gance, hier et demain, produced by the Office de Documentation par le Film and directed by Nelly Kaplan. In the 1960s the motion picture rose to ...
Ian Aitken, 2013
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Moving Forward, Looking Back: The European Avant-garde and ...
Ruttmann is in many respects a figure similar to Abel Gance, always struggling with his self-definition as an artist, poised between constructivism and a romantic cult of creative genius, and in political terms equally difficult to pin down.
Malte Hagener, 2007
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Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in ...
80 From Napoleon to J' accuse II The parallels between Gance's first version of / ' accuse and The Four Horsemen are striking. The same shift from melodrama to myth takes place, the same move from German atrocities to common suffering.
Jay Winter, 1998
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Motion Picture Photography: A History, 1891-1960
They based their excellent work on the vast information compiled by Gance and their own research to produce a faithful reconstruction of the epoch. Many years later the famous French art director Leon Barsac commented that this was the first  ...
H. Mario Raimondo-Souto, 2006
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Dictionary of Films
Popular dictators are transformed into purveyors of the guillotine with emphasis on Robespierre's (Van Daele) idiosyncrasies, the hemoptysis of Marat (Artaud), and Saint- Just (Gance) smelling a rose each time the blade falls. Thermidor (July - ...
Georges Sadoul, Peter Morris, 1972
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Letterboxed: The Evolution of Widescreen Cinema
Aside from the obvious grandeur of the overall composition, how does Gance use these new framing strategies to rupture in comparison to Griffith and Keaton? Griffith uses the horizontal mask either to accentuate a character's isolation or to ...
Harper Cossar, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GANCE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Gance is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Brit who was issued Israel's first passport
Leonard Gance was a member of Hampstead Synagogue who left his parents and two sisters in Stepney Green, east London, to make aliyah ... «Jewish Chronicle, Jul 15»
2
Alicia Vikander Triumphs in Testament of Youth
... of course: The particularly grim, traumatic nature of World War I has been a staple of cinema since the silent era — Abel Gance's J'accuse ... «Riverfront Times, Jul 15»
3
Giant final wave of 2015 Fantasia festival films includes “ATTACK …
While the Cinémathèque française works itself to the bone on its restoration of Abel Gance's NAPOLÉON, Synapse Films has shown a ... «FANGORIA, Jul 15»
4
House of song and flowers
105 that we came to hear such great resounding names as Stanislavsky and Eisenstein, Mishima and Kurosawa, Abel Gance and Jean Renoir, ... «The Sunday Times Sri Lanka, Jul 15»
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Bergman's 'Cries and Whispers' Is a Blu-ray Revelation
But L'Argent is only nominally its story — in the silent era, Abel Gance was L'Herbier's only rival as France's experimental-expressionist ... «Village Voice, Jul 15»
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Aussies and Kiwis invited to join AMPAS
... restoration of dozens of classics including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Thief of Bagdad, Ben-Hur and Abel Gance's Napoleon ... «Inside Film, Jun 15»
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Letter: An exceptional week for American exceptionalism
... access to health care for those without that basic necessity. Last week was a good one for American exceptionalism. Bob Gance, Asheville. «Asheville Citizen-Times, Jun 15»
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Critics' picks of other things to do on Gay Pride Week
For the serious cineaste, there is a program of two early films by the silent master Abel Gance, “The Madness of Doctor Tube” (1915), and “The ... «SFGate, Jun 15»
9
9 Things We Learned About Jason Schwartzman at SIFF 2015
His first acting gig just happened to fall into his lap, while accompanying his mother to a special 1997 screening of Abel Gance's "Napoleon," for ... «Indie Wire, Jun 15»
10
The Train review – it's Lancaster v Scofield in this French Resistance …
The movie fits into a tradition of French train pictures in which giant locomotives take on powerful human identities, stretching from Abel Gance's ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»

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