What's the difference between standby and understudy?
Standby
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Understudy
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To study, as another actor's part, in order to be his substitute in an emergency; to study another actor's part.
(n.) One who studies another's part with a view to assuming it in an emergency.
Example Sentences:
(1) Michael Caine was his understudy for the 1959 play The Long and the Short and the Tall at the Royal Court Theatre.
(2) So I think he’s been aware of it.” Shaw’s injury explains why Danny Rose of Tottenham Hotspur has been called up as an understudy for Leighton Baines in the left-back role , at a time when Kieran Gibbs is also unavailable because of his own hamstring injury.
(3) The population understudy was composed of 156 children, with ages ranging from 1 to 14 years; they were stratified in three socio-environmental groups (white-family unit, gypsy-family unit and orphanage), and also divided into subgroups according to age.
(4) Chelsea have completed the £8m purchase of Asmir Begovic from Stoke City with the Bosnia international replacing Petr Cech as Thibaut Courtois’ understudy at Stamford Bridge.
(5) The move to sign the 33-year-old on a free transfer follows a knee injury suffered by Thibaut Courtois which has ruled the first-choice goalkeeper out until December and left the squad with only one experienced understudy in Asmir Begovic.
(6) His understudy Jeremy Northam completed the run and Day-Lewis didn't act at all for several years afterwards.
(7) Buffon's understudy Marchetti gets down brilliantly to smother the cross.
(8) O'Toole's understudy, who never had to appear, was Michael Caine.
(9) The Spaniard, who can operate anywhere up the left flank but is predominantly a defender, has been capped nine times since 2009 and has acted as understudy to Joan Capdevila and, more recently, Jordi Alba.
(10) But the problem – although in some ways a nice one – is that Nicholas Hytner has become the directorial equivalent of an actor whom people fear understudying because of the risk of disappointing the audience.
(11) Pediatricians can promote and direct a national focus on this area that has been understudied by researchers, public health officials, and policymakers.
(12) They just talk to other men.” Eventually she had collared the “understudy engineer” who traced a finger down a map, and declared: “You’re about 200 metres away from the station.” That was the end of the conversation.
(13) He and a friend came close to starting a theatre afterwards, but when their funding fell through, he ended up understudying a comedian who was playing opposite Kenneth Williams .
(14) Halfway through rehearsals, though, his actors are questioning the idea that they are delivering the words of Shakespeare's understudy: Ibsen is prone to scenes and speeches of bald exposition.
(15) Ian had just exploded into stardom with his Richard II and Edward II so I was thrilled to be asked to play the First Player and the Player King, a couple of smaller roles and to understudy Claudius for a 13-14 week tour.
(16) Courtois, who faced Chelsea in the Champions League semi-finals , making some crucial saves, appreciates the difficulties if he were to return to Stamford Bridge and play understudy to Petr Cech, the 32-year-old named in the Professional Footballers’ Association Premier League team of the year.
(17) Caballero’s selection had been risky after his erratic performances as Joe Hart’s understudy but it was his goalkeeping that meant the first silverware of the season would be heading to Manchester and those were the moments when we saw why Manuel Pellegrini had placed his trust in him.
(18) Uggie was yanked; an understudy, Dash, was brought in.
(19) He was a gent, I could only mumble some nonsense about smelling the flowers.” Also notable in the picture is the understudy for goalkeeper Ivan Katalinic, George and Mildred Roper’s next door neighbour, Jeffrey Fourmile .
(20) Young, Lingard and Rashford look to be understudies to Martial, Mkhitaryan and Ibrahimovic.