rehearsal [ri-hur-suhl] Example Sentences
Main Entry:
rehearsal [ri-hur-suhl]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: preparation for performance
Synonyms: call, description, drill, dry run, experiment, going-over, practice, practice session, prep, reading, readying, recital, recitation, recounting, rehearsing, relation, retelling, run-through, shakedown, test flight, trial balloon, trial performance, tryout, workout
Antonyms: cold turkey
Main Entry: experiment
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: investigation, test
Synonyms: R and D, agreement, analysis, assay, attempt, check, dissection, dry run, enterprise, essay, examination, exercise, experimentation, fling*, measure, observation, operation, practice, probe, procedure, proof, quiz, rehearsal, research, research and development, scrutiny, search, speculation, study, trial, trial and error, trial run, try, try-on, tryout, undertaking, venture, verification
Main Entry: narration
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: description, reading
Synonyms: account, anecdote, explanation, narrative, recital, recountal, recounting, rehearsal, relation, report, story, storytelling, tale, telling, voice-over, yarn
Antonyms: concealment, suppression
Example Sentences
  • If nothing happened, they'd had a rehearsal for a perceived larger threat.
  • Take a look at the behind the scenes rehearsal of the show by clicking here.
  • Yet much theatre persists in flinging freelance actors together for rehearsal periods of six weeks or less.
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Main Entry: performance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: acting, depiction
Synonyms: act, appearance, ballet, behavior, burlesque, business, ceremony, concert, custom, dance, display, drama, exhibition, gig, interpretation, matinee, offering, opera, pageant, play, portrayal, presentation, production, recital, rehearsal, representation, review, revue, rigmarole, rite, set, show, special, spectacle, stage show, stunt, to-do
Antonyms: direction
Main Entry: practice
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: exercise, application
Synonyms: action, assignment, background, discipline, drill, drilling, effect, experience, homework, iteration, operation, preparation, prepping, recitation, recounting, rehearsal, relating, repetition, seasoning, study, training, tune-up, use, work-out
Antonyms: ignorance, neglect
Main Entry: preparation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: development, readiness
Synonyms: alertness, anticipation, arrangement, background, base, basis, build-up, construction, dry run, education, establishment, evolution, expectation, fitting, foresight, formation, foundation, gestation, getting ready, groundwork, homework, incubation, lead time, making ready, manufacture, measure, plan, precaution, preparedness, preparing, provision, putting in order, qualification, readying, rehearsal, rundown, safeguard, schoolwork, study, substructure, training, tryout, workout
Antonyms: unreadiness
Main Entry: recital
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: narrative, rendering
Synonyms: account, concert, description, detailing, enumeration, fable, musical, musicale, narration, performance, portrayal, presentation, reading, recapitulation, recitation, recountal, recounting, rehearsal, relation, repetition, report, statement, story, tale, telling
Notes: a recital is a musical performance by a soloist or two performers; a concert is a performance by a group
Main Entry: recitation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: reading to audience
Synonyms: address, appeal, declaiming, delivery, discourse, discoursing, discussion, exercise, holding forth, lecture, monologue, narrating, narration, oration, passage, performance, piece, playing, proclamation, recital, recounting, rehearsal, rendering, report, selection, soliloquizing, speaking, talk, telling
Main Entry: repetition
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: duplication; doing again
Synonyms: alliteration, broken record, chant, chorus, copy, echo, encore, ingemination, iteracy, iterance, iteration, litany, paraphrase, periodicity, perseveration, practice, reappearance, recapitulation, recital, recurrence, redundancy, rehearsal, reiteration, relation, renewal, reoccurrence, repeat, repetitiousness, replication, report, reproduction, restatement, return, rhythm, rote, staccato, tautology
Antonyms: instance
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