Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A repetition of a phrase or verse.
- noun A return to an original theme.
- noun A recurrence or resumption of an action.
- transitive verb To repeat or resume an action; make a reprise of.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To take again; retake.
- To recompense; pay.
- To take; arrest.
- noun A taking by way of retaliation; reprisal.
- noun In masonry, the return of a molding in an internal angle.
- noun In maritime law, a ship recaptured from an enemy or a pirate. If recaptured within twenty-four hours of her capture, she must be restored to her owners; if after that period, she is the lawful prize of those who have recaptured her.
- noun plural In law, yearly deductions, duties, or payments out of a manor and lands, as rent-charge, rent-seek, annuities, and the like. Also written
reprizes . - noun In music: The act of repeating a passage, or a passage repeated.
- noun A return to the first theme or subject of a short work or section, after an intermediate or contrasted passage.
- noun A revival of an obsolete or forgotten work.
- noun Blame; reproach.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A taking by way of retaliation.
- noun (Law) Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, rent seck, pensions, annuities, and the like.
- noun A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.
- transitive verb obsolete To take again; to retake.
- transitive verb obsolete To recompense; to pay.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
recurrence orresumption of an action. - noun music A
repetition of aphrase , or areturn to an earliertheme . - noun fencing A
renewal of a failedattack , after going back into theon guard position. - verb obsolete, transitive To
take (something) up or on again. - verb To repeat or resume an action
- verb obsolete To
recompense ; topay .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb repeat an earlier theme of a composition
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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They offered answers and reprise from the horrors of life.
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The anomaly, to reprise, is that Hitler today is detested for his human-rights violations, ie, the Holocaust.
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An out of the blue rumor has come out; apparently Tom Cruise has been offered to reprise is role as Maverick in a sequel.
Top Gun 2? 2008
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The anomaly, to reprise, is that Hitler today is detested for his human-rights violations, ie, the Holocaust.
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Ford will once again reprise his role as the adventuring archeologist in the next film.
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It's great news, although I have to say I was hoping for President Palmer, aka Dennis Haysbert to reprise is earlier voice role.
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Frank Welker and Peter Cullin reprise their Megatron and Optimus Prime voice roles for new Transformers videogame
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Transformers Game Nabs Original Voice Actors 2007
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A recent Global Research article by Tom Burghardt provides a chilling (if also somewhat hyperbolic) account of recent raids on activists in what many are now calling a reprise on the 1960s CONTELPRO project, which was aimed mainly at the Black Panthers and other black militant groups.
Michael Schwartz: Unfortunately, Obama Is Expanding the Imperial Presidency Michael Schwartz 2010
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Alas, the reprise is a bleating duet by Peabo Bryson and Celine Dion.
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The elaboration is frenetic with strife, but the reprise is a many-hued rainbow after storm, and the coda in A major
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