rehearsal

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Also, the rehearsal was a sad awakening; it wasn't anything like he had imagined it would be.

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  1. noun The act of practicing in preparation for a public performance.
  2. noun A session of practice for a performance, as of a play.
  3. noun A detailed enumeration or repetition: a long rehearsal of his woes.

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  • We had a conference after the dress-rehearsal, and our friend Mr. Goble told him in no uncertain words—in the whole course of my experience I have never heard words less uncertain—that his damned rotten high-brow false-alarm of a show—I am quoting Mr. Goble—would have to be rewritten by alien hands. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Jill the Reckless, by P. G. Wodehouse
  • It turned out that there had been more than a bit of a breeze between him and Molly before they set out for the rehearsal, and he was emotionally disturbed. —  SLEUTH’S ALCHEMY: Cases of Mrs. Bradley and Others - Gladys Mitchell
  • —The critics who wrote their notices at the dress-rehearsal, and complained of my playing pranks with the text were a little previous. —  The Story of My Life
  • If your rehearsal is the only time people touch their instruments then you are in trouble! —  Cross Rhythms
  • Psychologists call this "rehearsal" - the more (and sooner) you talk about an experience, the better it lodges in your memory, says George Loewenstein, Ph. D., a professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. —  Cayman Net News Daily Headlines
 

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Etymologies (1)

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  1. Early modern English rehersall; from Middle English rehersaille, from Old French rehearsal, rehersall, repeating, from reherser, rehearse: see rehearse.
 

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