rehearsalre‧hears‧al /rɪˈhɜːsəl $ -ɜːr-/ ●○○ noun 
Examples
a rehearsal for ‘Romeo and Juliet’in rehearsal The dialogue was worked out by actors in rehearsal. → dress rehearsal2[countable] a time when all the people involved in a big event practise it together before it happens: a wedding rehearsal
ExamplesEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- Changes to the script are often made during rehearsal.
- We're having our first rehearsal of 'Hamlet' tonight.
- Wednesday's dress rehearsal went fairly smoothly.
- But that was just a full-dress rehearsal.
- Is the performance to be videoed without an audience at a final rehearsal?
- Manion had been religious about doing his daily relaxation exercises, followed by affirmations, visualizations, and mental rehearsals.
- The next rehearsal will be on Monday night after school.
- The play went into rehearsal in mid-November for an opening on 171 Broadway on December 18 at the Booth Theater.
- There are rehearsal tracks that show how band wizard Brian Wilson whipped studio musicians into shape.
Longman Language Activatoractivities people do in order to practise► practice
Collocations things you do regularly in order to get better at something, or an occasion when you do these things: · You're getting better - you just need a little more practice.· I try and get some practice in before classes.· There are only three more practices before the concert.piano/football/choir etc practice: · I scored two goals at hockey practice tonight.· Are you going to choir practice?
► training time that you spend practising and doing exercise in order to get better at a sport: · The team captain got a knee injury during training.a training course/session/programme etc: · Training sessions are on Saturdays at 10 a.m.
► rehearsal an occasion when all the people in a play, concert etc practise it in order to prepare for it to be performed for the public: · Changes to the script are often made during rehearsal.rehearsal of: · We're having our first rehearsal of 'Hamlet' tonight.dress rehearsal (=when everyone wears the clothes they will be wearing in the actual play): · Wednesday's dress rehearsal went fairly smoothly.
► run-through when you practise a play, speech, piece of music etc by reading or playing it from start to finish: · Let's have one more run-through and then finish for today.· The cast could all have done with an extra run-through of some of the songs.
► dry run an event in which you practise something by doing it from start to finish, especially in order to make sure that it will work or happen successfully: · One of the pilots made an error during the dry run of the mission.· The recording was intended to be a dry run, but Warfield sang the song flawlessly.
► exercise an activity that is designed to make you practise a particular skill within a larger subject or area of activity: · The exercises in Chapter 3 are helpful for students learning the future tense.· a book of guitar exercises to improve finger flexibility
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► dress
1[countable, uncountable] a time when all the people in a play, concert etc practise before a public performancerehearsal for/of· This was the last opportunity for a dress rehearsal in the New York Preview theatre.· In this light of evolutionary time, ecology can be seen as one long dress rehearsal.· A crisis in the family makes you realise the old adage that life is not a dress rehearsal.· On the Monday night the orchestra arrived ready for the dress rehearsal of Gypsy Baron the next morning.· I want this bridge to be in every way a dress rehearsal for that.· Is the press going to be invited in to take photographs at the dress rehearsal?· So Last night's league match at the Link Centre in Swindon was curtain up on a dress rehearsal.
VERB► attend· I vividly recall attending a rehearsal in Salzburg at Whitsuntide 1977.· There will be an opportunity to attend rehearsals, interview finalists and take photographs.· At the beginning of August he returned to London in order to attend rehearsals.· Your sound engineer should mix the out-front sound at every gig and attend rehearsals regularly to keep up with new material.· I attended his rehearsals whenever I could.
► start· The preparation intensified earlier this month as singers and technical staff arrived and started rehearsals.
► watch· John and Malc watched hours of rehearsals from the stalls of the Palladium, both becoming more nervous by the second.· They had lunch with Edinburgh-born presenter John Leslie and spent the afternoon watching rehearsals for the live show.· Last year, our own Festival Director talked with Teshigawara in Tokyo, after watching one of his rehearsals.
a rehearsal for ‘Romeo and Juliet’in rehearsal The dialogue was worked out by actors in rehearsal. → dress rehearsal2[countable] a time when all the people involved in a big event practise it together before it happens: a wedding rehearsal