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 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «rehearse» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.