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Rehearsal vs Repeat - What's the difference?

rehearsal | repeat |

As nouns the difference between rehearsal and repeat

is that rehearsal is the practicing of something which is to be performed before an audience, usually to test or improve the interaction between several participating people, or to allow technical adjustments with respect to staging to be done while repeat is an iteration; a repetition.

As a verb repeat is

(intransitive) to do or say again (and again).

rehearsal

Noun

(en noun)
  • the practicing of something which is to be performed before an audience, usually to test or improve the interaction between several participating people, or to allow technical adjustments with respect to staging to be done
  • repeat

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (intransitive) To do or say again (and again).
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.}}
  • (obsolete) To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
  • (Waller)
  • (legal, Scotland) To repay or refund (an excess received).
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An iteration; a repetition.
  • We gave up after the third repeat because it got boring.
  • A television program shown after its initial presentation -- particularly many weeks after its initial presentation; a rerun.
  • Patterns of nucleid acids that occur in multiple copies throughout the genome.
  • See also

    * redundant