(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.
Repetition
Definition:
(n.) The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration.
(n.) Recital from memory; rehearsal.
(n.) The act of repeating, singing, or playing, the same piece or part a second time; reiteration of a note.
(n.) Reiteration, or repeating the same word, or the same sense in different words, for the purpose of making a deeper impression on the audience.
(n.) The measurement of an angle by successive observations with a repeating instrument.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
(2) This modulation results from repetitive, alternating bursts of excitatory and inhibitory postsynaptic potentials, which are caused at least in part by synaptic feedback to the command neurons from identified classes of neurons in the feeding network.
(3) This promotion of repetitive activity by the introduction of additional potassium channels occurred up to an "optimal" value beyond which a further increase in paranodal potassium permeability narrowed the range of currents with a repetitive response.
(4) This condition may be caused by the prolonged, repetitive elevations of gonadal steroids and other hormones known to suppress gonadotropin-releasing hormone secretion that are elicited by their daily exercise.
(5) Two hours after the administration, the combinations of ethanol plus diazepam and ethanol plus meclophenoxate impaired significantly the number of necessary repetitions.
(6) This effect of adrenalectomy on MNE excitability was further demonstrated by recording directly the neostigmine-induced repetitive neural discharges responsible for the muscle fasciculations.
(7) The fifth plasmid contains sequences which are repeated in the yeast genome, but it is not known whether any or all of the ribosomal protein gene on this clone contains repetitive DNA.
(8) For further education, this would be my priority: a substantial increase in funding and an end to tinkering with the form of qualifications and bland repetition of the “parity of esteem” trope.
(9) As the frequency of the stimulus bursts was progressively changed, the sinoatrial (SA) nodal pacemaker cells became synchronized with the repetitive bursts of stimuli over a certain range of burst frequencies.
(10) Light-induced cone shortening provides a useful model for stuying nonmuscle contraction because it is linear, slow, and repetitive.
(11) The average repetitive yields and initial coupling of proteins spotted or blotted into PVDF membranes ranged between 84-98% and 30-108% respectively, and were comparable with the yields measured for proteins spotted onto Polybrene-coated glass fiber discs.
(12) Analytic therapy aims at converting transference as repetition of behaviour into recollection.
(13) Effects were monitored electrophysiologically by repetitive nerve stimulation and by standardized clinical testing.
(14) Variations in image orientation, repetition time (TR), and flip angle were evaluated to determine their effects on flow-related enhancement.
(15) Instead, a repetitive, stepwise dissolution pattern was observed.
(16) Studies in cattle assessing changes in number and size of antral follicles, concentrations of estradiol, androgens and progesterone in serum and follicular fluid, and numbers of gonadotropin receptors per follicle during repetitive estrous cycles and postpartum anestrus are reviewed.
(17) This decrease was associated with a release of lactate and inorganic phosphate during the repetitive periods of reperfusion.
(18) His bundle recordings and premature atrial stimulation from coronary sinus, mid-right atrium and high-right atrium were performed in a patient with repetitive supraventricular tachycardias.
(19) The torques, although not large enough to dislodge the socket immediately, are repetitive and so may contribute to loosening.
(20) Dissociated culture of adult mouse dorsal root ganglion cells on glass plates, on which grating-associated microstructures (a repetition of microgrooves [mGRV] and microsteps [mSTP] of 0.1-10 micron) are fabricated by the conventional lithographic techniques, represents a remarkable bi-directional growth of their nerve fibers in the axial direction of the grating.