auditionn.
/ɔːˈdɪʃən/ 1.
a. The action of hearing or listening.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > [noun]
hearingc1230
audiencea1393
audition1656
autophony1871
phonoreception1940
1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. vi. 72 The act of the object, and the act of sense it selfe, as sonation and audition,..differ only intentionally.
1881 J. G. Fitch Lect. Teaching viii. 252 What may be called audition—the listening to French sentences and rapidly interpreting them.
b. A trial hearing or performance of an actor, singer, etc., seeking employment.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > [noun] > a performance > (types of) audition
audition1881
callback1987
1881 Scribner's Monthly May 122/1 The director of the Académie de Musique..fixed a day for her audition at the theatre.
1908 Evening News 18 June 3/3 When she was nineteen she was given an ‘audition’ at the Santa Cecilia Conservatoire.
1926 Westm. Gaz. 30 Jan. The plaintiff gave auditions to several girl saxophonists to fill the vacancy.
1933 P. Godfrey Back-stage xv. 190 The chorus-girl gets her jobs by attending auditions.
c. chromatic (also coloured) audition: the mental impression of a colour excited by sound.
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1898 Daily News 6 May 4/7 ‘Coloured audition’ is another mental phenomenon.
2. The power or faculty of hearing.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > [noun] > faculty or sense of hearing
earOE
listc1000
heartha1325
listenc1400
audition1599
1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 63/1 It draweth all out which is in the Eares, and administreth good auditione.
1867 J. Tyndall Sound ii. 74 The insect-music lying quite beyond his limit of audition.
3. An object of hearing, something heard; cf vision.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > thing heard > [noun]
audition1762
1762 H. Walpole Corr. (1837) II. 133 I went to hear it for it is not an apparition but an audition.
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auditionv.
/ɔːˈdɪʃən/ 1. transitive. To give an audition to (an applicant); to test by means of an audition.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > perform [verb (transitive)]
perform1567
deliver1809
audition1935
1935 Punch 18 Sept. 325/3 ‘Players who wish to be auditioned..’ B.B.C. Advertisement.
1958 Sunday Times 26 Jan. 20/4 Here the sixty-eight-year-old playwright auditions Jacqueline Foster for a part.
1959 Times 14 Sept. 5/1 When I auditioned English dancers for the London production.
2. intransitive. To undergo an audition; to be tested by means of an audition. Originally U.S.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > perform [verb (intransitive)]
audition1937
1937 Variety 17 Mar. (heading) Ice-Skater auditions in Rockefeller Plaza to ag[en]cy 14 floors up.
1938 Amer. Speech 13 194 Candidates for radio work at first are given an audition; later they simply audition.
1955 Begley & MacCrae (title) Auditioning for TV: How to prepare for success as a television actor.
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