rehearse
part of speech
verb (rehearse, rehearses, rehearsed, rehearsing)
meaning for a pupil
1) To rehearse is to practise a play, song, dance or speech before doing it in front of people. tree →
2) To rehearse is to go over what you will say or do, in your head or out loud, so you are ready. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Tradition reads God's command to Moses as making the war with Amalek something that must be told and remembered for all time. In the Psalms, to rehearse God's majesty and wondrous works is to tell them aloud in praise. In the primary lessons: In school life children rehearse for plays, concerts and assemblies; in safety lessons schools rehearse fire drills. In stories, a character rehearses what to say to a teacher. Phrases: «rehearse a play», «rehearse your lines», «dress rehearsal».
examples
- And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Write this for a memorial in the book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.' (Torah EXO.17.14, JPS 1917) tree →
- The glorious splendour of Thy majesty, and Thy wondrous works, will I rehearse. (Writings PSA.145.5, JPS 1917) tree →
- And when the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before Saul; and he was taken to him. (Prophets 1SA.17.31, JPS 1917) tree →
- O LORD, our Lord, how glorious is Thy name in all the earth! whose majesty is rehearsed above the heavens. (Writings PSA.8.2, JPS 1917) tree →
- We rehearsed the school play every afternoon. tree →
- The choir is rehearsing for the concert. tree →
- She rehearsed her speech in front of the mirror. tree →
- Tomorrow is the dress rehearsal, with costumes. tree →
- He rehearsed what he would say to his dad about the broken window. tree →
- The school rehearses the fire drill each term. tree →
- They rehearsed the dance until they got it right. tree →
note
Noun: rehearsal. Spelling: -hear- in the middle, as in «hear». Rehearse is used for performances; «practise» (UK) / «practice» (USA) is the general word for getting better at a skill.
In the corpora
- And when the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before Saul; and he was taken to him.
- O LORD, our Lord, how glorious is Thy name in all the earth! whose majesty is rehearsed above the heavens.
- The glorious splendour of Thy majesty, and Thy wondrous works, will I rehearse.
- A rehearsal is a practice session for a performance; a band cannot rehearse full songs if people do not turn up.
- The curtain call is the bows at the end, and it is rehearsed, often with the lead bowing last.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «rehearse» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.