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rehearse

riˈhərs
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Rehearsal watch with three cases. The movement is covered with a dust cover, and on the front by a white enamel dial with chapter ring. The top hinged golden inner box is decorated along the sides with openwork flower and leaf work, interrupted on the four sides by panels surrounded by scrolls. The panels are filled with allegories on the four elements. The side-hinged golden canopy is enclosed at both the front and rear by openwork grille with flowers, and is interrupted by four panels enclosed by scrolls. It contains allegories of the seasons, on the obverse only depicted by symbols, on the back by personifications. The large rear panel, surrounded by symmetrical movable volutes, is filled with a representation of Esther for Ahasuerus. The whole is closed in a gilded copper protective case, covered with green stingray leather and studded with gold nails in pattern.
Rehearsal watch with three cases. The movement is covered with a dust cover, and on the front by a white enamel dial with chapter ring. The top hinged golden inner box is decorated along the sides with openwork flower and leaf work, interrupted on the four sides by panels surrounded by scrolls. The panels are filled with allegories on the four elements. The side-hinged golden canopy is enclosed at both the front and rear by openwork grille with flowers, and is interrupted by four panels enclosed by scrolls. It contains allegories of the seasons, on the obverse only depicted by symbols, on the back by personifications. The large rear panel, surrounded by symmetrical movable volutes, is filled with a representation of Esther for Ahasuerus. The whole is closed in a gilded copper protective case, covered with green stingray leather and studded with gold nails in pattern.
  1. (v) rehearse
    engage in a rehearsal (of)
Illustrations
Cartoon of the new ministerial team of the second Thorbecke cabinet as an orchestra rehearsing a piece of music. Thorbecke plays the first violin, with ministers Olivier, Betz, Meeussen, Blanken and Huyssen van Kattendijke on other instruments. Plate published by the weekly De Nederlandsche Spectator, no. 7, February 15, 1862.
Cartoon of the new ministerial team of the second Thorbecke cabinet as an orchestra rehearsing a piece of music. Thorbecke plays the first violin, with ministers Olivier, Betz, Meeussen, Blanken and Huyssen van Kattendijke on other instruments. Plate published by the weekly De Nederlandsche Spectator, no. 7, February 15, 1862.
Key belonging to a rehearsal watch with a music trophy.
Key belonging to a rehearsal watch with a music trophy.
Rehearsal of a chaotic band from Elsene (Ixelles) near Brussels, led by a German Kapellmeister. There are also some animals between the musicians. Below the presentation the legend 1-4 in French and German. Cartoon at the musical competition in Brussels, 17 July 1827. See also the pendant.
Rehearsal of a chaotic band from Elsene (Ixelles) near Brussels, led by a German Kapellmeister. There are also some animals between the musicians. Below the presentation the legend 1-4 in French and German. Cartoon at the musical competition in Brussels, 17 July 1827. See also the pendant.
Young actress who, standing in front of the mirror, is rehearsing her role. She is dressed in a 'Circassienne', the skirt of which is decorated with a band in the color of the dress. All trims are trimmed with 'blonde' or bobbin lace; a frill (gathered strip) of gauze under the waistband on the skirt. The sleeves are decorated with tulle. Accessories: hat with bow ribbon and ostrich feathers, beaded necklace (pearl necklace) in the hair, necklace consisting of two cords around the neck, a bracelet on both wrists. Print from the series dd. 28th Cahier de Costumes Français, 22nd Suite d'Habillemens à la mode en 1780, Gallerie des Modes et Costumes Français.
Young actress who, standing in front of the mirror, is rehearsing her role. She is dressed in a 'Circassienne', the skirt of which is decorated with a band in the color of the dress. All trims are trimmed with 'blonde' or bobbin lace; a frill (gathered strip) of gauze under the waistband on the skirt. The sleeves are decorated with tulle. Accessories: hat with bow ribbon and ostrich feathers, beaded necklace (pearl necklace) in the hair, necklace consisting of two cords around the neck, a bracelet on both wrists. Print from the series dd. 28th Cahier de Costumes Français, 22nd Suite d'Habillemens à la mode en 1780, Gallerie des Modes et Costumes Français.
Silver-plated copper rehearsal watch with an enamel dial. With smooth copper exterior.
Silver-plated copper rehearsal watch with an enamel dial. With smooth copper exterior.
Gold rehearsal watch with enamel painting depicting an awakening amor. Along the glass a rim of diamonds.
Gold rehearsal watch with enamel painting depicting an awakening amor. Along the glass a rim of diamonds.
Young actor who, while walking, rehearses his role from a piece of paper. He wears a flannel over shirt and vest, breeches and shoes with square buckles. Hat with two raised edges. Print from series K. 10th Cahier de Costumes Français, 4th Suite d'Habillements à la mode, Gallerie des Modes et Costumes Français.
Young actor who, while walking, rehearses his role from a piece of paper. He wears a flannel over shirt and vest, breeches and shoes with square buckles. Hat with two raised edges. Print from series K. 10th Cahier de Costumes Français, 4th Suite d'Habillements à la mode, Gallerie des Modes et Costumes Français.
Actor rehearsing his role during the walk. He is wearing a frak, a shirt, a vest, knee breeches and shoes with buckles. On the head a hat with two raised edges. In the left hand a paper. Copy to K 58 from series K. 10th Cahier de Costumes Français, 4th Suite d'Habillements à la mode, Gallerie des Modes et Costumes Français.
Actor rehearsing his role during the walk. He is wearing a frak, a shirt, a vest, knee breeches and shoes with buckles. On the head a hat with two raised edges. In the left hand a paper. Copy to K 58 from series K. 10th Cahier de Costumes Français, 4th Suite d'Habillements à la mode, Gallerie des Modes et Costumes Français.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Rehearse
    To cause to rehearse; to instruct by rehearsal. "He has been rehearsed by Madame Defarge as to his having seen her."
  2. Rehearse
    To narrate; to relate; to tell. "Rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord."
  3. Rehearse
    To recite or repeat in private for experiment and improvement, before a public representation; as, to rehearse a tragedy.
  4. Rehearse
    To recite or repeat something for practice. "There will we rehearse ."
  5. Rehearse
    To repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite. "When the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed them before Saul."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. rehearse
    To repeat, as what has already been said or written; recite; say or deliver again.
  2. rehearse
    To mention; narrate; relate; recount; recapitulate; enumerate.
  3. rehearse
    To repeat, act, or perform in private for experiment and practice, preparatory to a public performance: as, to rehearse a tragedy; to rehearse a symphony.
  4. rehearse
    To cause to recite or narrate; put through a rehearsal; prompt.
  5. rehearse
    Synonyms To detail, describe. See recapitulate.
  6. rehearse
    To repeat what has been already said, written, or performed; go through some performance in private, preparatory to public representation.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (v.t) Rehearse
    to repeat what has already been said: to narrate: to recite before a public representation
Quotations
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Leroy ''Satchel'' Paige
If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.
Leroy ''Satchel'' Paige
You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.
Lucinda Basset
Life is not a dress rehearsal.
Rose Tremain
Wayne Dyer
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
Wayne Dyer
I've discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. They mentally run through important events before they happen.
Charles A. Garfield
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OE. rehercen, rehersen, OF. reherser, rehercier, to harrow over again; pref. re-, re- + hercier, to harrow, fr. herce, a harrow, F. herse,. See Hearse

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary O. Fr. rehercer, reherser—re-, again, hercer, to harrow—herce (Fr. herse), a harrow.

Usage in the news

Linda Haberman (L), Director and Choreographer of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular directs The Rockettes at the 2012 Radio City Christmas Spectacular Rehearsals this week in New York. ktep.org

Michelle Obama participated in a rehearsal on Monday at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. nytimes.com

Admittedly, as I walked into SLC's Capital Theatre for the Miss Utah rehearsals on Wednesday, I was already having flashbacks back to my middle and high school years. saltlakemagazine.com

Fall for Dance Rehearsal. semissourian.com

Philip Mills and Cara Gansky rehearse a scene from "€œFarragut North," produced by Premiere Stages at Kean University in Union. nj.com

There was a lot of fun going on in the kitchen as Executive Sous Chefs Andreas Reinhardt and Nick Harlich rehearsed their public demonstration at the hotel. nzherald.co.nz

Merett Shah rehearses with performers from String Theory at the LAX Flyaway Bus Terminal in Van Nuys. dailynews.com

Joseph Harvey plays the cello during a String Theory rehearsal at the LAX Flyaway Bus Terminal in Van Nuys. dailynews.com

The day before July 4, bands will likely be rehearsing the national anthem for Independence Day celebrations. georgetowner.com

Derek Hough arriving at a dance rehearsal studio for ABC's 'Dancing with the Stars' on Sept 26th. radaronline.com

Community theater is putting on its fall musical, and at this point rehearsals have become long, frequent and intense. pcgazette.com

Nathan Lane and Brian Dennehy in rehearsal at Chicago's Goodman. playbill.com

Shirley Horn (with bassist Ed Howard) rehearsing in her Upper Marlboro home last December for a Kennedy Center concert in her honor. ashingtonpost.com

Elisabeth Holowchuk, foreground at rehearsal Tuesday, showed her technical prowess in "In Memory of". ashingtonpost.com

Friday night served as the final dress rehearsal for Ryan's football team — the last time the team would wear jerseys with no numbers, the last time the Raiders play without keeping track of the score. dentonrc.com

Usage in scientific papers

There is an opinion that this is not caused by problems of audition, speech, or articulatory rehearsal within the phonological loop component of Baddeley and Hitch's working memory model.
Human Information Processing with the Personal Memex

It was demonstrated that there is minimum interference between the subsystems in terms of storage and rehearsal mechanisms.
Human Information Processing with the Personal Memex

The production algorithm relies on the rejection method whose invention dates back to von Neumann and which we do not rehearse here.
Random numbers from the tails of probability distributions using the transformation method

It is not our purpose to rehearse these connections here and we refer the interested reader to references [6, 12] where much of the material is reviewed.
Laplace Invariants for General Hyperbolic Systems

If I replaced the block cipher with another one, I would ‘rehearse’ OOP again in the context of the new class.
Learning by Test-infecting Symmetric Ciphers

Usage in literature

I have the solos to-night, and this afternoon a rehearsal for 'Siegfried. "The Black Cross" by Olive M. Briggs

And therefore many thousand he rehearses. "The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3)" by Christopher Marlowe

Why can't you take our rehearsal properly, like the others did? "The Youngest Girl in the Fifth" by Angela Brazil

Ivan Mikhailovitch is working very hard; and rehearsals are bothersome things. "The Genius" by Margaret Horton Potter

Note, that all this while, I forget not my first Proposition Staticall, here rehearsed: that, the Superficies of the water, is Sphaericall. "The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara" by John Dee

The work was put into rehearsal by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1914. "A Book of Burlesques" by H. L. Mencken

A boy came to say that the rehearsal will be at four this afternoon. "The Lure of the Mask" by Harold MacGrath

We found it possible to begin to study at midnight, and we arranged for a rehearsal on the morrow. "The Making Of A Novelist" by David Christie Murray

Before you put that immortal work upon the public stage you'd better try an amateur performance carefully rehearsed. "An Old Meerschaum" by David Christie Murray

Saul Lapham, a friend of his, plays the cornet at the choir-rehearsals. "Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878" by Various

Usage in poetry
Reverenced be that name sublime,
Through all temples and all time;
Thy exhaustless praise rehearse
Let the unbounded universe.
"The Lord's Prayer" by John Bowring Author object (359)
Thou Rome, that Sodom sinke of sinne,
thou Ægypt art, and worse:
Thou Rome, that Babel mysticall,
whose fall now we rehearse.
"A description of olde Rome" by Roger Cotton
Let all your sacred passions move,
While you rehearse his deeds;
But the great work of saving love
Your highest praise exceeds.
"Psalm 150" by Isaac Watts Author object (310)
When the morning paints the skies,
When the sparkling stars arise,
Thy high favours to rehearse,
Thy firm faith, in grateful verse.
"Thou Who Art Enthroned Above!" by George Sandys
He tells th' Almighty, whilst I hear,
That he will any torment bear,
If I, by rote, a single verse
Of all the scripture can rehearse.
"The Unhappy State Of The Ungodly, After Death" by Rees Prichard
When Peace brings Freedom in her train,
Let happy lips his songs rehearse;
His life is now his noblest strain,
His manhood better than his verse!
"Bryant On His Birthday" by John Greenleaf Whittier Author object (377)