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# rehearse

«rehearse» in Mova's school dictionary: **to practise a play, song, dance or speech before doing it…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rehearse/#m1)

2) To rehearse is to go over what you will say or do, in your head or out loud, so you are ready. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rehearse/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rehearse/#x1)
- The choir is rehearsing for the concert. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rehearse/#x2)
- She rehearsed her speech in front of the mirror. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rehearse/#x3)
- Tomorrow is the dress rehearsal, with costumes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rehearse/#x4)
- He rehearsed what he would say to his dad about the broken window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rehearse/#x5)
- The school rehearses the fire drill each term. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rehearse/#x6)
- They rehearsed the dance until they got it right. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rehearse/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/4-starting-a-band/10/)
- [The curtain call is the bows at the end, and it is rehearsed, often with the lead bowing last.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/28-the-school-play-auditions-lines-stage-fright/14/)
- [And when the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before Saul; and he was taken to him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.484/)
- [O LORD, our Lord, how glorious is Thy name in all the earth! whose majesty is rehearsed above the heavens.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.86/)
- [The glorious splendour of Thy majesty, and Thy wondrous works, will I rehearse.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2620/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «rehearse» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rehearse/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.