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ˈrun-through
Also runthrough. Pl. run-throughs, runs-through.
[f. run v.]
1. A (freq. hasty or cursory) rehearsal of a play, a radio or television programme, etc. Also gen. a performance or showing (of a play, film, etc.), esp. a preview.
1923Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves x. 104 It must have been about a week after this rummy little episode that George Caffyn called me up and asked me if I would care to go and see a run-through of his show. 1930J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel iv. 287 She felt it in her bones that the play would be a hit..and Mr Freelby said Ike Gold..had sat through the runthrough with the tears running down his cheeks. 1946Life 2 Dec. 51 The director, handsomely played by Sam Wanamaker, talks of his theatrical troubles until the star, Mary Grey, appears. There begins a run-through of a play about Joan of Arc, with Mary in the lead. 1952S. Kauffmann Philanderer (1953) xiii. 217 She had to go back for the final run⁓through. 1957Duncan & Bone Oxf. Pkt. Bk. Athletic Training (ed. 2) v. 71 Minor adjustments being made before competition after practice runs-through. 1959Times 10 July 9/1 The two gentlemen were felicitously played at this public première (as at the private run⁓through half a year ago) by Mr. Stephen Manton and Mr. Bruce Boyce. 1963Ann. Reg. 1962 421 Christopher Sly, a chamber opera by Thomas Eastwood, heard in Britain only in a public run-through in 1960, was given its first staging at Pforzheim. 1973Times 17 Oct. 11/2, I..immediately asked about rehearsals. I was told there would be run-throughs with a full orchestra but without the chorus and other principals. 1973E. Lemarchand Let or Hindrance xiv. 177 The film..has been very recently edited... Like a run-through of this last part? 1977S. Brett Star Trap v. 53 The..cast assembled for a pre-tour run-through.
2. A brief survey (of facts); a summary, a concise account.
1947Sun (Baltimore) 20 Mar. 1/6 The Big Four conference which, at the conclusion of the ninth session tonight, had accomplished little more than a run-through of German issues on which the Council is split. 1957[see fado]. 1963Listener 7 Mar. 432/2, I gave a group of young Russians a quick run-through of Eng. Lit. from Hopkins and Hardy to Amis and Osborne. 1973A. Hunter Gently French iv. 36 Tell me about Quarles... Give me a quick run through.
3. The fact or an instance of running trains through intermediate points without stopping for crew changing, loading, etc.
1964Canad. Labour Dec. 31/3 Representatives of the non-operating railway unions met in Montreal with officials of the running trades to work out a common policy on rail abandonments, runthroughs and other technological changes. 1967Canad. Ann. Rev. 1966 29 The implementation of the Freedman report on railway run-throughs. 1969Jane's Freight Containers 1968–69 125/3 To improve interline service, the Frisco is co⁓operating with connecting rail carriers to pre-block traffic in run-through trains—avoiding intermediate terminal switching operations. |