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Exercise vs Rehearse - What's the difference?

exercise | rehearse |

As verbs the difference between exercise and rehearse

is that exercise is to exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop while rehearse is to repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite.

As a noun exercise

is any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.

exercise

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.
  • :
  • *(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • *:desire of knightly exercise
  • *(John Locke) (1632-1705)
  • *:an exercise of the eyes and memory
  • Physical activity intended to improve strength and fitness.
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  • *:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.He was smooth-faced, and his fresh skin and well-developed figure bespoke the man in good physical condition through active exercise , yet well content with the world's apportionment.
  • A setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use.
  • *(Thomas Jefferson) (1743-1826)
  • *:exercise of the important function confided by the constitution to the legislature
  • * (1809-1892)
  • *:O we will walk this world, / Yoked in all exercise of noble end.
  • The performance of an office, ceremony, or duty.
  • *(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
  • *:Lewis refused even those of the church of Englandthe public exercise of their religion.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • *:to draw him from his holy exercise
  • (lb) That which gives practice; a trial; a test.
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:Patience is more oft the exercise / Of saints, the trial of their fortitude.

    • Alternative forms

    * exercice * excercise

    Derived terms

    * exercise book * exercise machine * five-finger exercise * floor exercise * military exercise

    Verb

    (exercis)
  • To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.
  • :
  • To perform physical activity for health or training.
  • :
  • To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice.
  • :
  • :
  • *Bible, (w) xxii. 29
  • *:The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery.
  • To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious.
  • :
  • *(and other bibliographic particulars for citation) (John Milton)
  • *:Where pain of unextinguishable fire / Must exercise us without hope of end.
  • (lb) To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to.
  • *Bible, (w) xxiv. 16
  • *:Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence.
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  • *:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence.

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    * * 1000 English basic words

    rehearse

    English

    Verb

    (rehears)
  • To repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite.
    • There's no need to rehearse the same old argument; we've heard it before, and we all agree.
  • To narrate; to relate; to tell.
    • The witness rehearsed the events of the night before for the listening detectives.
  • To practice by recitation or repetition in private for experiment and improvement, prior to a public representation; as, to rehearse a tragedy .
    • The lawyer advised her client to rehearse her testimony before the trial date.
  • To cause to rehearse; to instruct by rehearsal.
    • The director rehearsed the cast incessantly in the days leading up to opening night, and as a result they were tired and cranky when it arrived.
  • * Charles Dickens
    • He has been rehearsed by Madame Defarge as to his having seen her.

    Derived terms

    * rehearsal