(adv. / interj.) Once more; again; -- used by the auditors and spectators of plays, concerts, and other entertainments, to call for a repetition of a particular part.
(n.) A call or demand (as, by continued applause) for a repetition; as, the encores were numerous.
(v. t.) To call for a repetition or reappearance of; as, to encore a song or a singer.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the end of the night, he told us we'd been such a crummy audience we didn't deserve an encore, and he didn't do one.
(2) ITV Encore, a pay-TV channel launching in the summer and exclusive to Sky subscribers for an undisclosed period , and free-to-air ITVBe – launching in late 2014 and the new home of The Only Way is Essex – will be the broadcaster's first new channels since CiTV in 2006, at least partly because of the previously parlous state of its finances.
(3) King's Theatre , to Wed LG End Of The Rainbow, Northampton End of the Rainbow Returning one last time to the venue where it first began, Peter Quilter's play about the acting and singing legend Judy Garland at the end of her life as she attempts to make one last comeback at London's Talk Of The Town in 1968, certainly deserves its encore.
(4) Riffs that echo Metallica's Black Album, an encore that references Born to Run, and a band of session musicians straight out of 80s rock central casting; an Eric Church gig reeks of classic rock right down to the lead man's aviators, stubble and Jack Daniel's and Coke.
(5) Four examples are used to illustrate the disastrous results of 'dermolipectomies' done as an encore to abdominal operative procedures.
(6) Well Dave genuinely thought the reptiles would go mad for tantric sex lolz because when he tested it in cabinet people were seriously woof, Govey was so hysterical that Haguey was like, hark at Lady Govina, titter ye not missus & Picklesy kept shouting encore, so Dave said funny you should ask, well they have this position called the BT engineer as in you stay in all day and no one comes.
(7) Moments later, the pair unexpectedly reappeared, like a band returning for an encore, to shake hands and work the line of the few lingering reporters.
(8) Having got away with bombing Libya (with barely a thought for the poor Libyans, whose country is now a tragic mess) he must have arrogantly thought that Syria would make a nice encore.
(9) This was the post he held when he wrote the editorial "Medical education for 1980," which is reprinted as our Encore selection for this issue, starting on page 665.
(10) Now, five years later, signs of frothiness, if not outright bubbles, are reappearing in housing markets in Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, France, Germany, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and, back for an encore, the UK (well, London).
(11) At the end of the match the teams provided an encore in the shape of a penalty shoot-out.
(12) "Encore is a little bit like 'UK Atlantic'," says Locke, referring to BSkyB's US-drama-packed channel Sky Atlantic.
(13) It becomes clear the free entry comes with a price – after the nth encore, it transpires that Prince has left the building early, never to play that third show; but after performing for nearly five hours it's harsh to call him lazy.
(14) Having got away with bombing Libya (with barely a thought for the poor Libyans, whose country is now a tragic mess) he must have arrogantly thought that Syria would make a nice encore.” Cameron’s unthinking policy on Syria has fuelled the rise of British jihadism | Peter Ford Read more Others have argued that the UK erred in not giving sufficient backing to the moderate Syrian opposition from the start in 2011 and failing to match the means to the end of removing Assad from power.
(15) Regardless, tongues around baseball are hanging out while they rack up win after win (myself included), especially after their big comeback from a five-run deficit on Tuesday in Toronto, and their encore on Wednesday which featured a five-run tenth inning explosion , one that included another insane performance from Yasiel Puig .
(16) This is an improved assay of C-reactive protein in serum, for use with the Baker "Encore" centrifugal analyzer.
(17) We present the results of initial investigations using two dynamic programming algorithms on the Intel iPSC hypercube and the Connection Machine as well as an inexpensive, heuristically-based algorithm on the Encore Multimax.
(18) He complained of “sweating blood in rehearsals” and, in 1900, wrote of utter exhaustion after one performance: ‘The audience continued for 5 minutes to ask for an encore, and I stubbornly refused … I fell to the ground, and … it took four people to lift me up, I was so tired.” He grappled too with stage fright, confiding from London in 1904: “Before each performance starts, I get so nervous that I am very nearly beastly with everyone … they say that camomile works well.” Energy could at least be conserved before American audiences, he discovered.
(19) That worked a charm, wonder what they're doing for an encore?
(20) So I am going to put my money on a King, Henrik, to put on an encore and send this thing back to New York, mostly because I am not ready for the season to end.