Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A trial performance, as by an actor, dancer, or musician, to demonstrate suitability or skill.
- noun The sense or power of hearing.
- noun The act of hearing.
- intransitive verb To take part in a trial performance.
- intransitive verb To evaluate (a person) in a trial performance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of hearing; a hearing or listening; the sensation from an impression on the auditory nerve by the vibrations of the air produced by a sonorous body.
- noun The sense of hearing; hearing, as a physiological function or faculty; one of the five special senses.
- noun Something heard.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of hearing or listening; hearing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun countable A
performance , by an aspiringperformer , todemonstrate suitability ortalent - noun uncountable The
sense ofhearing - verb transitive To
evaluate one or more performers in through an audition - verb intransitive To take part in such a performance
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb perform in order to get a role
- noun the ability to hear; the auditory faculty
- noun a test of the suitability of a performer
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Despite all this, we heard back about King 4 and moosebutter but not Wonder Voice, and no answer means no "audition"--really call back to sing in front of the live judges
America's Got Talent Becca 2009
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10 November 2008 at 5: 02 pm aww that thing about Rob and the audition is soo cute. lol
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The Cubs went with Quade over Sandberg and bench coach Alan Trammell, and the audition was a success.
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The Cubs went with Quade over Sandberg and bench coach Alan Trammell, and the audition was a success.
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Even during Hollywood Week, after the group audition, I thought I was going to go home because our audition was a train wreck.
'Idol' finalist John Park: 'Simon's not that mean of a guy' 2010
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The Cubs went with Quade over Sandberg and bench coach Alan Trammell, and the audition was a success.
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But most of her audition was a belly dance for Steven.
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The Cubs went with Quade over Sandberg and bench coach Alan Trammell, and the audition was a success.
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So the scene in the audition was the one where Betty walks into Mode for the first time and Amanda says, “Are you the before?”
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Not long before Junebug opened — and before the Oscar nomination that would pull her out of the pack — Adams went on a cattle-call audition for a role that involved singing and dancing as well as acting.
Some Enchanted Amy Shnayerson, Michael 2008
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