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REHEARSAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(psychology) a form of practice; repetition of information (silently or aloud) in order to keep it in short-term memory
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("rehearsal" is a kind of...):
drill; exercise; practice; practice session; recitation (systematic training by multiple repetitions)
Domain category:
psychological science; psychology (the science of mental life)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A practice session in preparation for a public performance (as of a play or speech or concert)
Example:
a rehearsal will be held the day before the wedding
Synonyms:
dry run; rehearsal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("rehearsal" is a kind of...):
drill; exercise; practice; practice session; recitation (systematic training by multiple repetitions)
Domain category:
concert (a performance of music by players or singers not involving theatrical staging)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rehearsal"):
dress rehearsal (a full uninterrupted rehearsal in costumes shortly before the first performance)
run-through (an uninterrupted rehearsal)
walk-through (a first perfunctory rehearsal of a theatrical production in which actors read their lines from the script and move as directed)
Derivation:
rehearse (engage in a rehearsal (of))
Context examples:
To think only of the licence which every rehearsal must tend to create.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Maria, she also thought, acted well, too well; and after the first rehearsal or two, Fanny began to be their only audience; and sometimes as prompter, sometimes as spectator, was often very useful.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Fanny took the work very quietly, without attempting any defence; but her kinder aunt Bertram observed on her behalf—One cannot wonder, sister, that Fanny should be delighted: it is all new to her, you know; you and I used to be very fond of a play ourselves, and so am I still; and as soon as I am a little more at leisure, I mean to look in at their rehearsals too.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
A delightful rehearsal.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The first regular rehearsal of the three first acts was certainly to take place in the evening: Mrs. Grant and the Crawfords were engaged to return for that purpose as soon as they could after dinner; and every one concerned was looking forward with eagerness.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Fanny believed herself to derive as much innocent enjoyment from the play as any of them; Henry Crawford acted well, and it was a pleasure to her to creep into the theatre, and attend the rehearsal of the first act, in spite of the feelings it excited in some speeches for Maria.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The ruin of the play was to them a certainty: they felt the total destruction of the scheme to be inevitably at hand; while Mr. Yates considered it only as a temporary interruption, a disaster for the evening, and could even suggest the possibility of the rehearsal being renewed after tea, when the bustle of receiving Sir Thomas were over, and he might be at leisure to be amused by it.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
At the very moment of Yates perceiving Sir Thomas, and giving perhaps the very best start he had ever given in the whole course of his rehearsals, Tom Bertram entered at the other end of the room; and never had he found greater difficulty in keeping his countenance.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
She knew, also, that poor Mr. Rushworth could seldom get anybody to rehearse with him: his complaint came before her as well as the rest; and so decided to her eye was her cousin Maria's avoidance of him, and so needlessly often the rehearsal of the first scene between her and Mr. Crawford, that she had soon all the terror of other complaints from him.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
She worked very diligently under her aunt's directions, but her diligence and her silence concealed a very absent, anxious mind; and about noon she made her escape with her work to the East room, that she might have no concern in another, and, as she deemed it, most unnecessary rehearsal of the first act, which Henry Crawford was just proposing, desirous at once of having her time to herself, and of avoiding the sight of Mr. Rushworth.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
