Dress Rehearsal

  

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Dress Rehearsal

Definition: Dress Rehearsal

Dress Rehearsal

Noun

1. A full rehearsal shortly before the first performance.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Dress Rehearsal

DomainDefinition

Census

A census of population and housing conducted by the Census Bureau in selected areas prior to a decennial census to determine and validate the effectiveness of planned census operations, procedures, and systems. The "United States Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal" was conducted in 1998 in Sacramento city, California; Menominee County, Wisconsin, including the Menominee Indian Reservation; and 11 counties and part of a twelfth in South Carolina, including the city of Columbia. Other census field operations in preparation for a census may also be referred to as "dress rehearsals." See test census. (references)

Fine Arts

A complete rehearsal, in costume, usually the last one before the opening night. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Dress Rehearsal

Specialty definitions using "dress rehearsal": decennial field interfaceIntegrated Coverage MeasurementTargeted Canvassing, Targeted Multi-Unit Check, test census. (references)

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Modern Usage: Dress Rehearsal

DomainUsage

Lyrics

There's times when this dress rehearsal (Underneath It All; performing artist: No Doubt)

Movie/TV Titles

Dress Rehearsal (1939)

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Commercial Usage: Dress Rehearsal

DomainTitle

Books

  • This Is Your Life, Not A Dress Rehearsal (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Expression: Dress Rehearsal

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "dress rehearsal": full-dress rehearsal.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dress Rehearsal

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dress rehearsal

4
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Modern Translation: Dress Rehearsal

Language Translations for "dress rehearsal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏سرد (enumerate, enumeration, narrative, recital, recitation, recite, record, recount, rehearsal, relation, retail). (various references)

   

Czech

  

generální zkouška, generálka (overhaul). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

pääharjoitus. (various references)

   

French

  

répétition générale. (various references)

   

German

  

Generalprobe. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

γενική πρόβα. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

חזר" כללית, חזר" בתלבושות. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

fõpróba (prolusion). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

舞台稽古 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ぶたい'い". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

essdray ehearsalray

   

Romanian

  

repetiţie generalã (full-dress rehearsal). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

генеральная репетиция (full-dress rehearsal). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ensayo general. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

genrep, generalrepetition. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kostümlü prova, genel prova (final rehearsal). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Dress Rehearsal

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-e-h-l-r-r-r-s-s-s"

-4 letters: redressers, rehearsals, rehearsers.

-5 letters: eldresses, harassers, redresser, redresses, rehearsal, rehearsed, rehearser, rehearses, releasers, shadeless.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Dress Rehearsal


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 72 65 73 73      52 65 68 65 61 72 73 61 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110011 00100000 01010010 01100101 01101000 01100101 01100001 01110010 01110011 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#114 &#101 &#115 &#115 &#32 &#82 &#101 &#104 &#101 &#97 &#114 &#115 &#97 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0072 0065 0073 0073      0052 0065 0068 0065 0061 0072 0073 0061 006C

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

38847185852527174716784856778

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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