A practice session in preparation for a public performance (as of a play or speech or concert):
— He missed too many rehearsals.
— A rehearsal will be held the day before the wedding.

synoniem: dry run.

Roget 673: preparation; providing etc. v.; provision, providence; anticipation etc. (foresight) 510; precaution, preconcertation^†, predisposition; forecast etc. (plan) 626; rehearsal, note of preparation.    [Putting in order] arrangement etc. 60; clearance; adjustment etc. 23; tuning; equipment, outfit, accouterment, armament, array.    ripening etc. v.; maturation, evolution; elaboration, concoction, digestion; gestation, batching, incubation, sitting.    groundwork, first stone, cradle, stepping-stone; foundation, scaffold etc. (support) 215; scaffolding, echafaudage [Fr.].    [Preparation of men] training etc. (education) 537; inurement etc. (habit) 613; novitiate; cooking [Preparation of food], cookery; brewing, culinary art; tilling, plowing, [Preparation of the soil], sowing; semination^†, cultivation.    [State of being prepared] preparedness, readiness, ripeness, mellowness; maturity; un impromptu fait a loisir [Fr.].    [Preparer] preparer, trainer; pioneer, trailblazer; avant-courrier [Fr.], avant-coureur [Fr.]; voortrekker [Afrik.]; sappers and miners, pavior^†, navvy^†; packer, stevedore; warming pan.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 104: repetition, iteration, reiteration, harping, recurrence, succession, run; battology, tautology; monotony, tautophony; rhythm etc. 138; diffuseness, pleonasm, redundancy.    chimes, repetend, echo, ritornello^†, burden of a song, refrain; rehearsal; rechauffe [Fr.], rifacimento [It], recapitulation.    cuckoo etc. (imitation) 19; reverberation etc. 408; drumming etc. (roll) 407; renewal etc. (restoration) 660.    twice-told tale; old story, old song; second edition, new edition; reappearance, reproduction, recursion [Comp.]; periodicity etc. 138.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 594: description, account, statement, report; expose etc. (disclosure) 529; specification, particulars; state of facts, summary of facts; brief etc. (abstract) 596; return etc. (record) 551; catalogue raisonne [Fr.] etc. (list) 86; guidebook etc. (information) 527.    delineation etc. (representation) 554; sketch; monograph; minute account, detailed particular account, circumstantial account, graphic account; narration, recital, rehearsal, relation.    historiography^†, chronography^†; historic Muse, Clio; history; biography, autobiography; necrology, obituary.    narrative, history; memoir, memorials; annals etc. (chronicle) 551; saga; tradition, legend, story, tale, historiette^†; personal narrative, journal, life, adventures, fortunes, experiences, confessions; anecdote, ana^†, trait.    work of fiction, novel, romance, Minerva press; fairy tale, nursery tale; fable, parable, apologue^†; dime novel, penny dreadful, shilling shocker relator etc. v.; raconteur, historian etc. (recorder) 553; biographer, fabulist^†, novelist.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: repetitie
Pools: próba

psychology A form of practice; repetition of information (silently or aloud) in order to keep it in short-term memory.