| NOUN | act | dry run, rehearsal | a practice session in preparation for a public performance (as of a play or speech or concert) |
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| Meaning | A practice session in preparation for a public performance (as of a play or speech or concert). | |
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| Synonym | rehearsal | |
| Category | concert | A performance of music by players or singers not involving theatrical staging |
| Narrower | dress rehearsal | A full uninterrupted rehearsal in costumes shortly before the first performance |
| run-through | An uninterrupted rehearsal | |
| walk-through | A first perfunctory rehearsal of a theatrical production in which actors read their lines from the script and move as directed | |
| Broader | exercise, practice, drill, practice session, recitation | Systematic training by multiple repetitions |
| Spanish | ensayo | |
| Catalan | assaig | |
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