DRY RUN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dry run mean? 

• DRY RUN (noun)
  The noun DRY RUN has 1 sense:

1. a practice session in preparation for a public performance (as of a play or speech or concert)

  Familiarity information: DRY RUN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRY RUN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A practice session in preparation for a public performance (as of a play or speech or concert)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

dry run; rehearsal

Context example:

a rehearsal will be held the day before the wedding

Hypernyms ("dry run" is a kind of...):

drill; exercise; practice; practice session; recitation (systematic training by multiple repetitions)

Domain category:

concert (a performance of music by players or singers not involving theatrical staging)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dry run"):

dress rehearsal (a full uninterrupted rehearsal in costumes shortly before the first performance)

run-through (an uninterrupted rehearsal)

walk-through (a first perfunctory rehearsal of a theatrical production in which actors read their lines from the script and move as directed)