Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- transitive v. To create the choreography of: choreograph a ballet.
- transitive v. To plan out or oversee the movement, development, or details of; orchestrate: aides who choreographed the candidate's tour.
- intransitive v. To specialize in choreography.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- v. To design and record the choreography for a dramatic work such as a ballet
- v. To direct the development of a project; to orchestrate
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A choreographer; one who arranges a ballet.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. compose a sequence of dance steps, often to music
- v. plan and oversee the development and details of
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Examples
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And Ralph Reed, an associate of Mr. Abramoff, was quoted as saying that he helped "choreograph" a response for you when you were attorney general towards a tribal problem.
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Other times, he said, she has had to choreograph divertissements from scratch, "using the building blocks of the period and creating something new."
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In 1982, Ms. Turocy was invited to choreograph Rameau's "Les Bor é ades" for the official French festivities in honor of the composer's 300th birthday the following year.
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The pressure cooker of group round forces the 168 remaining contestants to team up with each other, learn a song, and choreograph a routine in just one night.
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Mr. Refn, who doesn't have a driver's license, watched a lot of action movies to figure out how to choreograph his film's car chases.
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The Kincaid girls used to play Dance Dance Revolution until midnight; now they choreograph and shoot dance videos and upload them onto their computers as a rule, they aren't allowed to upload them on YouTube.
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It's a magical scene, impossible to choreograph, and yet Mr. Gardner captures such instances again and again.
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Do you choreograph dances to reflect discrimination you've felt as a transsexual?
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With one week of intensive education, Mitake was able to teach her class not only how to hoop, but several tricks, instruct them on performance skills, as well as choreograph a full routine with all students involved.
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"But you can't choreograph a play only for making people cry"
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