2[countableC] a time when all the people involved in a big event practise it together before it happens 预演,演习
a wedding rehearsal
婚礼的预演
Examples from the Corpus
rehearsal• There are rehearsaltracks that show how bandwizard Brian Wilson whippedstudiomusicians into shape.• But that was just a full-dress rehearsal.• Wednesday's dressrehearsal went fairly smoothly.• Changes to the script are often made during rehearsal.• Is the performance to be videoed without an audience at a finalrehearsal?• We're having our first rehearsal of 'Hamlet' tonight.• The play went into rehearsal in mid-November for an opening on 171 Broadway on December 18 at the Booth Theater.• Manion had been religious about doing his dailyrelaxationexercises, followed by affirmations, visualizations, and mentalrehearsals.• The next rehearsal will be on Monday night after school.
rehearsal for/of• I felt this was a rehearsal for my parting from Dana.• Then came what was almost a dress rehearsal of the DemocraticConvention.• On the Monday night the orchestraarrivedready for the dress rehearsal ofGypsyBaron the next morning.• Earlier this year, I discovered a great way to spend a morning: open rehearsals of the San Francisco Symphony.• Unfortunately, instead of being silent, rehearsal of this form can become overt.• He insisted on a clause in his contractassuring him that his duties would not interfere with rehearsals for the opera company.