rehearsal

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English Vietnamese dictionary

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Advanced English dictionary

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+ noun
1 [C, U] time that is spent practising a play or piece of music in preparation for a public performance: to have / hold a rehearsal + We only had six days of rehearsal. + Our new production of 'Hamlet' is currently in rehearsal. + a rehearsal room + The leading man broke his leg in the middle of rehearsals.
See also - DRESS REHEARSAL
2 [C, usually sing.] ~ (for sth) an experience or event that helps to prepare you for sth that is going to happen in the future: These training exercises are designed to be a rehearsal for the invasion. + Life is not a rehearsal.
3 [C, usually sing.] ~ of sth (formal) the act of repeating sth that has been said before: We listened to his lengthy rehearsal of the arguments.

Thesaurus dictionary

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n.

1 practice, exercise, dry run, drill, run-through, read-through, dress rehearsal, Technical undress rehearsal:

Is there a rehearsal of the school play scheduled for tonight?

2 narration, recounting, relation, recital, telling, description, enumeration, account, repetition, repeat:

Do we have to listen to yet another rehearsal of your great-uncle's exploits in the war?

Collocation dictionary

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ADJ.

dress

VERB + REHEARSAL

do, have, hold

We only had one full rehearsal.

| attend, go to

REHEARSAL + VERB

take place | go

How did the rehearsal go?

REHEARSAL + NOUN

room, space, studio | time

PREP.

at (a/the) ~

He apologized for his outburst at rehearsal.

| during (a/the) ~

During the dress rehearsal she suddenly forgot her lines.

| in ~

They're performing every night and they have another production in rehearsal.

| ~ for

rehearsals for ‘Romeo and Juliet’

| ~ of

a rehearsal of the final scene

Concise English dictionary

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rehearsalsrɪ'hɜrsl /-'hɜːsl
noun
+a practice session in preparation for a public performance (as of a play or speech or concert)
+(psychology) a form of practice; repetition of information (silently or aloud) in order to keep it in short-term memory