Rally vs Burlesque - What's the difference?
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A demonstration; an event where people gather together to protest for or against a given cause
(squash, table tennis, tennis, badminton) A sequence of strokes between serving]] and [[score, scoring a point.
(motor racing) An event in which competitors drive through a series of timed special stages at intervals. The winner is the driver who completes all stages with the shortest cumulative time.
(business, trading) A recovery after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite.
* Dryden
* Tillotson
To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate.
(business, trading) To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
To tease; to chaff good-humouredly.
* Addison
* Gay
Good-humoured raillery.
Parodical; parodic
* Addison
A derisive art form that mocks by imitation; a parody.
* Addison
* Dryden
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
, title=
, chapter=2 A variety adult entertainment show, usually including titillation such as striptease, most common from the 1880s to the 1930s.
A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion.
* Burke
To make a parody of
* {{quote-news, 1988, February 5, Billie Lawless, Laying Down the Lawless, Chicago Reader
, passage=When the venerable New York Times took my quote in which I described the neon elements as "burlesquing the myth of male dominance" and instead printed "he prefers to describe them as . . . symbols of male dominance" it became clear that dealing with journalists was going to be one long, rocky road.}}
To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language.
* Stillingfleet
As nouns the difference between rally and burlesque
is that rally is a demonstration; an event where people gather together to protest for or against a given cause while burlesque is a derisive art form that mocks by imitation; a parody.As verbs the difference between rally and burlesque
is that rally is to collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite while burlesque is to make a burlesque parody of.As an adjective burlesque is
parodical; parodic.rally
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) ralier ((etyl) rallier), from (etyl) prefix .Noun
(rallies)Hyponyms
* (increase in value) (l)Verb
(en-verb)- The Grecians rally , and their powers unite.
- Innumerable parts of matter chanced just then to rally together, and to form themselves into this new world.
Synonyms
* (l) * (increase in value) (l), (l)Antonyms
* (increase in value) (l)Derived terms
* rallying pointEtymology 2
(etyl) railler. See .Verb
(en-verb)- Honeycomb raillies me upon a country life.
- Strephon had long confessed his amorous pain / Which gay Corinna rallied with disdain.
Noun
(-)References
* ----burlesque
English
(wikipedia burlesque)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)- It is a dispute among the critics, whether burlesque poetry runs best in heroic verse, like that of the Dispensary, or in doggerel, like that of Hudibras.
Derived terms
* burlesquelyNoun
(en noun)- Burlesque is therefore of two kinds; the first represents mean persons in the accoutrements of heroes, the other describes great persons acting and speaking like the basest among the people.
- The dull burlesque appeared with impudence, / And pleased by novelty in spite of sense.
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- Who is it that admires, and from the heart is attached to, national representative assemblies, but must turn with horror and disgust from such a profane burlesque and abominable perversion of that sacred institute?
Synonyms
* (parody) lampoon, travestyVerb
(burlesqu)citation
- They burlesqued the prophet Jeremiah's words, and turned the expression he used into ridicule.