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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something new; something that begins |
| Synonyms: | addition, admittance, awakening, baptism, basic principles, basic text, beginning, commencement, debut, essentials, establishment, exordium, first acquaintance, first taste, foreword, hornbook, inauguration, inception, induction, influx, ingress, initiation, insertion, installation, institution, interpolation, intro, launch, lead, lead-in, opening, opening remarks, overture, pioneering, preamble, preface, preliminaries, prelude, presentation, primer, proem, prolegomenon, prologue, survey |
| Antonyms: | conclusion, end, ending, finish |
| Main Entry: | act |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | part of a performance |
| Synonyms: | bit*, curtain, epilogue, gag, introduction, number, piece, prologue, routine, scene, schtick, show, sketch, spot, turn |
| Notes: | an act is the main dramatic unit and a scene is a division within an act |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | admission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entering or allowing entry |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, access, admittance, certification, confirmation, designation, door, entrance, entree, ingress, initiation, introduction, permission, reception, recognition, way, welcome |
| Notes: | admission implies a physical entrance, whereas admittance implies some sort of procedural or merely formal entry; admission correlates with permission to move into a room or building but admittance correlates with acceptance into a group or organization admission falls short of an acknowledgment of all elements of a crime - which would be a confession |
| Antonyms: | denial, exclusion, expulsion, refusal |
| Main Entry: | appearance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coming into sight |
| Synonyms: | actualization, advent, appearing, arrival, coming, debut, display, emergence, entrance, exhibition, introduction, manifestation, materialization, presence, presentation, representation, rise, showing up, turning up, unveiling |
| Antonyms: | absence, departure, disappearance, leaving |
| Main Entry: | baptism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | church rite; initiation |
| Synonyms: | ablution, baptismal, christening, debut, dedication, dunking, immersion, introduction, launching, lustration, purgation, purge, purification, rite of passage, ritual, sanctification, sprinkling |
| Main Entry: | beginning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | start of an event or action |
| Synonyms: | alpha, basis, birth, blastoff, commencement, creation, dawn, dawning, day one, genesis, inauguration, inception, induction, infancy, initiation, installation, introduction, kickoff, onset, opener, opening, origin, origination, outset, point of departure, preface, prelude, presentation, rise, root, rudiment, source, spring, square one, starting point, takeoff, threshold, top |
| Antonyms: | completion, conclusion, consummation, end, ending, finish, goal, termination |
| Main Entry: | debut |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | first public appearance |
| Synonyms: | admission, appearance, beginning, bow, coming out, coming out party, entrance, entree, first step, graduating, graduation, inauguration, incoming, initiation, introduction, launching, opener, presentation |
| Notes: | a debut is a first public appearance; a premiere is a first performance, showing, or broadcast |
| Antonyms: | closing, finale |
| Main Entry: | discovery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | finding, uncovering |
| Synonyms: | analysis, ascertainment, authentication, calculation, certification, detection, determination, diagnosis, discernment, disclosure, distinguishing, empiricism, encounter, espial, experimentation, exploration, exposition, exposure, feeling, hearing, identification, introduction, invention, learning, locating, location, origination, perception, revelation, sensing, sighting, strike, unearthing, verification |
| Antonyms: | loss, miss |
| Main Entry: | entrée |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | admittance |
| Synonyms: | access, adit, admission, connection, contact, debut, door, entrance, entry, importation, in, incoming, induction, ingress, introduction, open arms, open door, way |
| Antonyms: | blackballing, rejection |
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