(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.
Exodus
Definition:
(n.) A going out; particularly (the Exodus), the going out or journey of the Israelites from Egypt under the conduct of Moses; and hence, any large migration from a place.
(n.) The second of the Old Testament, which contains the narrative of the departure of the Israelites from Egypt.
Example Sentences:
(1) The protests have sparked an exodus of Chinese nationals, many of whom have fled to neighbouring countries or further.
(2) A bit like the old Lib Dems, perhaps: and indeed the Greens owe a big chunk of their surge to the exodus of voters from Clegg’s discredited rump.
(3) More than 50,000 civilians have joined a growing exodus from east Aleppo, a human rights monitor has said, as the UN security council prepares to hold emergency talks on fighting in the Syrian city.
(4) The addition of NH4+ or CH3NH3+ induced a rapid exodus of intracellular 86Rb+, an analog which was able to substitute for K+.
(5) Sunday's exodus further partitions the country, a process that has been under way since January, when a Muslim rebel government gave up power nearly a year after overthrowing the president of a decade.
(6) Brain drain, the exodus of highly trained professionals from developing countries to better paying jobs in the developed world, threatens the structure of community health care in those developing countries.
(7) This concept has huge implications, in particular the need to redress the balance of two generations' legacy of car-based planning: the devastating effect on our inner city areas - which have seen a mass exodus to the suburbs - cannot be ignored.
(8) White House faces exodus of foreign policy experts ahead of Trump's arrival Read more Obama also said he told Putin to “cut it out” – a month before the first release of hacked Democratic party emails by WikiLeaks.
(9) Unless we cut the red tape, the exodus will continue to the point of unsustainability.
(10) The exodus followed clashes in Assam in recent weeks between members of the indigenous Bodo tribe and Muslims that left more than 50 deaths and left 400,000 in displacement camps.
(11) Initial rates of AIB entry and exodus increased with increases in the pH of the incubation medium over the range 6.5-8.0.
(12) An exodus of glycogen granules into the hepatic spaces of Disse and sinusoids suggests that the viruses have injured the plasma membranes as well as the mitochondria of hepatocytes.
(13) The exodus is being led by young people, who are abandoning ageing towns and villages that were afflicted by economic decline and depopulation long before the disaster.
(14) Amnesty International has called it "ethnic cleansing" and warned of a " Muslim exodus of historic proportions ".
(15) People don’t understand trade policies,” said José Arroyo, who has been working with the United Steelworkers to stem the exodus of Democratic voters around Youngstown, an Ohio city surrounded by abandoned, crumbling factories.
(16) The exodus began as Isis fighters seized control of 60 Kurdish villages near the border in a two-day campaign as they approach the town of Kobane, also known as Ain al-Arab.
(17) On Monday Netflix reported that 810,000 subscribers had left the business in the third quarter and said the customer exodus is set to continue until December.
(18) Its head, Angela Knight, today reiterated City fears over a banking exodus.
(19) Titled Exodus, Scott's film will feature Christian Bale as the Jewish seer who leads the children of Israel out of Egypt to freedom in the promised land of Canaan.
(20) The campaign to oust Isis from Mosul could trigger an exodus of up to a million civilians into Iraqi Kurdistan, and risks overwhelming a region already strained to “near breaking point” by multiple crises, internal government documents seen by the Observer reveal.